INTRODUCTION TO THE URBAN STUDIES WEBSITE
Our country is undergoing industrialization and urbanization. It is a great revolution to transform a poor and backward agricultural society into a modern industrial - urban society. Urban development is not an impromptu and arbitrary game. It requires understanding the laws of development, and having abundant material and human resources. Urban Studies and Urban Management is a modern, interdisciplinary and highly applicable science. It is responsible for providing society with a team of professional managers to serve the country's urbanization. To train quality Urbanists and Urban Managers, it is necessary to have the resonance of different resources and tools in training, including information technology. Information technology is changing our lives, with advanced technology and techniques it has made the world smaller and flatter. It helps people connect with each other quickly and express themselves easily.
Starting from February 2011, the electronic information page - Web Khoa was officially put into operation. The Faculty of Urban Studies uses this website as a window to open to the outside world to introduce to domestic and international friends about a new training industry and a scientific organization that is attractive and potential in Vietnam. The Faculty also uses this website as an effective management and operation tool in the trend of "e-government". The website will provide information about training, learning materials, timetables, scholarships, extracurricular activities for students. The website is also an open scientific lecture hall for scientists and students to discuss with each other in a oriented way about urban issues of common interest. Readers will receive information related to scientific research, urban research projects, projects and funding sources for research. In the future, this website will be a bridge between alumni, between generations of students from different courses and with teachers in the faculty. The website will be a companion, a witness with Urban Studies teachers and students throughout the history of the development of the Faculty and the history of urban development in Vietnam.
INTRODUCTION TO URBAN STUDIES
History of the field in the world
Urban Studies was formed and born very early in North America (USA and Canada) since the 1950s. Prestigious universities in North America all have Urban Studies training majors. Schools that can be mentioned in the United States include the Department of Urban Studies at San Francisco State University; The University of new Orleans; in Canada such as: The University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, Calgary University, ... In Europe, there are also some schools that train in Urban Studies such as Wittenberg University, Darmstadt University of the Federal Republic of Germany. In Asian countries, Urban Studies was formed around the 1970s when the urbanization process accelerated in speed and increased in scale at an unprecedented level. Currently, Urban Studies is considered a key and important science for developing countries in Asia. Leading universities in Asia have Urban Studies departments such as the University of Malaysia, Chiba University (Japan), Thammasat University (Thailand), Seoul University (Korea).
The Department of Urban Studies can be structured as a department within the University of Architecture, an institute/college within a multidisciplinary university or a department within a university specializing in social sciences. Since 1990, in addition to the traditional trend of maintaining Urbanism as a fundamental theoretical science, there has been a tendency to strongly develop the application and practice associated with urban planning or urban management. The Department of Urban Studies of the University of Malaysia has expanded towards urban socio-economic planning (Department of Urban Studies and Planning), the Department of Urban Studies of the University of Seoul focuses on Urban Management.
Characteristics of the field of study
Urbanism is a modern science: It always receives and updates advanced sciences, inherits the research achievements of applied sciences, of modern technology - engineering in the fields of planning, architecture, construction, environment and information technology.
Urbanism, together with other sciences and social forces, participates in solving the hot, current and urgent issues of modern cities today. According to the training objectives of the Department of Urban Studies, University of San Francisco, USA, "cities are always the places where the most powerful changes and reforms in society take place. It creates new possibilities and opportunities for people and raises problems that need the attention of the whole community. As we enter the 21st century, globalization processes bring many new challenges to urban areas. Global investment decisions and "free trade" affect not only jobs but also cultural issues, population fluctuations and environmental changes, in which, cities
MISSION
The Faculty of Urban Studies is a faculty-level unit under the school, under the leadership of the school's board of directors and party committee. Together with other units in the school, the Faculty participates in improving people's knowledge in the urban field; directly training human resources for industrialization - urbanization at different levels (bachelor, master, doctor), and discovering and nurturing talents in the field of management.
The Faculty aims to become the largest research-training center in the field of urban studies and urban management in the South of Vietnam, and in the near future will be on par with countries in the Southeast Asian and Asian regions.
VISION
The Faculty of Urban Studies has the task of improving people's knowledge in the urban field; directly training human resources for industrialization - urbanization at different levels (bachelor, master, doctor).
The Faculty of Urban Studies aims to become the largest urban research and training center in the South of Vietnam, and in the near future will be on par with other countries in Southeast Asia and Asia.
FUNCTIONS - TASKS
1. Training undergraduate, master and doctoral students. Organizing short and long-term training courses (with certificates), organizing domestic and international study tours, receiving foreign students and scholars to work at the Faculty.
2. Organizing and implementing research topics at all levels, organizing domestic and international scientific conferences.
3. Consulting, appraisal and support functions for policy making:
- Consulting for organizations and individuals in setting up projects and supporting research at different levels.
- Appraise projects and social programs in the economic, cultural and social fields of the city through research activities.
- Participate in assisting policy making for political and social organizations at all levels.
4. Function of propaganda and dissemination of knowledge: Publishing scientific research publications (specialized books, training materials) and teaching.
