Nowadays, smart city has received a great attention of many countries around the world as a holistic strategy and potential trend for effective urban development that could help to solve a wide range of current urban issues such as population growth, productive land-use, overloaded infrastructure, traffic congestion, social division, etc. While the application of information and communication technology (ICT) was commonly mentioned as hardware aspect integrated in urban infrastructure system of a smart city, particularly around the early 1990s when the ICTs first reached a broad public attention in European countries, in recent years countries supporting a comprehensive approach frequently have considered and complemented the concept of smart city with a software interpretation related to smart vision, smart governance and smart community in order to obtain high quality of life and improve environmental quality. The article discusses smart urban governance - a vital pillar of smart city that addresses urban issues and dynamic collaborations between urban actors towards “smarter” urban growth in the 4.0 era.
Strong urbanization and enormous pressures of urban living and livelihoods have led to different development trends. A portion of urban residents choose to settle in the periphery to enjoy more quality living standard while suffering more mobility cost for work. Meanwhile, the others have decided to redevelop in the city inner to take advantage the available infrastructure, which leads the trend for revitalization. This later transition will be discussed in the paper and identified as "gentrification" process with both physical, economic and social changes. The "purification" of lifestyles and people in the given area during this process is a noteworthy point. The paper analyzes the characteristics, causes and solutions of gentrification in Hanoi historic inner under the local urban development context.
Article history: Received 19 March 2018, Revised 27 March 2018, Accepted 27 April 2018
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