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Posted at 1:05 a.m., Tuesday, December 11, 2007

UH research center receives $550,000 grant

Advertiser Staff

The University of Hawai'i at Manoa Globalization Research Center has recently been awarded $553,843 from the Ford Foundation to partner with Ha Noi Architecture University in Vietnam on the project "Improving Planning and Urban Management in an Era of Globalization."

The project will focus on research and training that supports urban development, management, and planning capacity building in Vietnam, a UH news release said.

Over the past 17 years, the urban share of Southeast Asia has increased by close to 38 percent, and Vietnam's urban share has increased by about 30 percent, according to a UH news release. According to the United Nations, the rates of urban growth are among the highest in the world.

The project, which totals $910,800, will encompass three components:

Examine the effect of Vietnam's economic reform strategy of Doi Moi on Vietnamese cities;

Train HAU faculty towards completion of a Professional Certificate in Urban and Regional Planning as well as create practical planning materials to complement the HAU curriculum in urban planning; and

Introduce HAU leadership to a range of U.S. urban planning programs to provide perspective in designing and improving their own program as well as strengthening professional urban planning networks between the two countries.

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