Asian Wet Markets Re-Examined: Market Cities as a Force for Investment and Renewal by Steve Davies
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Asian Wet Markets Re-Examined: Market Cities as a Force for Investment and Renewal by Steve Davies
Published just over a year ago, A New Vision for Hanoi's Wet Markets describes my experience working with HealthBridge Foundation of Canada and local architects to develop design ideas for modernizing three traditional fresh food markets in Hanoi. The workshop was an outgrowth of a successful campaign led by Kieu Ha of HealthBridge to save wet markets from demolition and replace them with shopping centers. Now that the markets had been saved from demolition, the question became what should happen with the 350 markets in the city?
