New Internationalist, February 1st, 1996
HANOI has an elegance that belies its association in the mind with war: tree-lined boulevards, an Old Quarter, the `Lake of the Restored Sword'. But one of Asia's finest architectural jewels may not long survive the century.
Even five years ago you could wander around Hanoi on foot or on your bike and see a certain charm in the absence of road rules. Now traffic has become a serious problem: Vietnam has 330,000 cars and over four million motorbikes, respectively double and four times the numbers there were in 1990. Small hotels and office buildings are springing up all over the city, flouti...
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