Abstract
The fast speed of urbanization in Vietnamese big city like Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has pushed a large number of longstanding cemeteries deep into the inner city. It consequently leads to the gradual loss of urban aesthetics and negative impacts on urban environment. Choosing location for cemetery in modernized city is currently realized as one of serious and difficult issues in terms of urban space planning. Also, it is an urgent concern of environmental problem. The result of traditional inhumation, for example, has led to an uncontrollable wide underground spread of polluted leachates exuding from human body corpses in longstanding cemetery and surrounding areas. In order to improve the effectiveness of urban planning, together with environmental and cemetery management and groundwater conservation responsibilities on site and surroundings of a cemetery, assessment of the groundwater pollution and simulation of the contaminant transport potential are compulsory. This study aims to conduct both tasks into Binh Hung Hoa (Tan Phu district) and Vinh Nghiem (district 12) cemeteries, the two typical longstanding cemeteries in HCMC.
Highlights
Cemetery is an essential component of urban infrastructure system
Cemetery planning process must comply with high-level planning requirements
Other regulations referred to planning process include: Vietnam National Code TCVN 7956:2008 on Urban Cemetery Design Standards, National Technical Regulation QCVN 0710:2016/BXD on Technical Infrastructure Works – Cemetery, Vietnam Building Code QCXDVN 01:2008/BXD on Regional and Urban Planning and Rural Residential Planning, and Vietnam Building Code QCXDVN 14:2009/BXD on Rural Residential Planning
Summary
Cemetery ( called as graveyard or grave-field) is an essential component of urban infrastructure system. People seem to be familiar with the fact that longstanding and/or spontaneous grave-fields locate in the interior of the city. This is an inevitable corollary of the high-speed urbanization, together with fast increase in population and insufficient tight control of nonresident. This corollary has put pressure on urbanwide socio-economics, infrastructure, environment, and healthcare assurance. Inhabitants, on the other hand, seem to be unconcerned with actions regarding changes in cemetery location
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