Urban Innovations: Community Participation: A Key to Improving Vientiane's Urban Infrastructure
Asian Development Bank | September 2008
Abstract
The Vientiane Urban Infrastructure Services Project1 supported decentralization, strengthened urban governance and management, and provided sustainable urban services to the people of Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Despite previous investments in roads, as well as drainage and water supply facilities, Vientiane’s urban infrastructure development backlog was so great that both economic growth and the quality of life of urban residents were being compromised. This was true of both the city’s primary and secondary infrastructure networks. These problems particularly affected Vientiane’s population at the community level, the majority of whom lives in low-lying lands that flood for a significant part of the year.
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Asian Development Bank. 2008. Urban Innovations: Community Participation: A Key to Improving Vientiane's Urban Infrastructure. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3466. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Urbanization
Urban Services
Urban Projects
Urban Problems
Urban Poverty
Urban Policy
Urban Planning
Urban Infrastructure
Urban Health
Urban Government
Urban Economic Development
Urban Development Finance
Urban Development
Urban Conditions
Urban Communities
Urban Population
Urban Plans
Urbanism
Urban agriculture
Economic Development
Rural Urban Migration
Cities
Local government
Urban renewal
Urban housing
Urban sociology
Transit systems
Rapid transit
Public transit
Mass transit
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