By 2020 Lao population will increase up to 15 Millions and more people from remote area will move into the main city to live & work. Slum will be the place for those poor people to live in the city
 It wll be very packed city






Forget about about subway, high building, big shopping mall let wait to see it happen after 2050

yeah i don't think anyone will live to see 2020. there are great cycles and transformations of the earth that are past due. something catastrophic will occur soon.

I like this topic because it deals with creating vision and mission for LPDR. I hope this is posted with an aim to generate ideas for some sort of serious strategic planning for Lao future, and I wish people will take this seriously.

It would be good to see general signs of progress in Lao like: 
* state of the art buildings, a trade center, 2 big modernized shopping malls and recreational/ leisure parks with harmonized architectural design
* good sewage system and state of the art water treatment facilities providing adequate supply of clean and potable water to the city and countrysides
* at least 4 hospital facilities with competent staff and state of the art service and equipment (1 in VNT, 1 in LPB, 1 in the north and 1 in the south) so people dont need to go to Thailand for advance medical treatment
* school facilities in every district renovated to make them conducive for learning with >80% attendance rate
* booming Lao silk and textile industry packaged to be competitive in world market
* Clean and organized market places in every district
* eletricity supplied to all every district
* Road paved even in moutainous north to allow people to transport and trade their produce in the town centers and cities.
* re-engineered health care delivery system allowing people even from the remote areas to have access to basic health care services, by providing grassroot level capacity building to local health care workers and empowering people to be responsible for their own health care.
* Empowered civil society

Previously I've read some concerns about modernization vs. culture and traditions. This can be kept  in balance with  some well thought city planning and clear industrial guidelines. By having this the country can also prevent formations of slum areas in the cities and maintain the harmony of new structures with Lao cuture and nature. You can have a building with state of the art facilities, services and equipment but with a unique architectural design that suits the Lao culture and an engineering that takes into consideration the natural beauty and resources of Lao. That will be a challenge for Lao architects and engineers... let the creative juices flow.

Cheers!

Laos, at least Vientiane, could be like Bangkok by 2020 or later. It's not that I'd like to see it developed that way but judging from the current trend- more Thai and Chinese businessmen in the country, 'so-called Chinatown' being planned, skytrain being underway, etc., anything is possible. I heard that on the other side of Luang Prabang town (the world heritage-listed city), other side of Mekong river, there will be a modern town being developed. And some Lao towns that share borders with China too are turning into entertainment centres or some sorts. So yeah, it is positive that Laos could look like one of those photos above in the near future.

My village will be like this

bip_01 wrote:

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they are really making a sky train? just wondering (to kino)
i guess it would be easier if they wanted to start now where it would be easier to build
but then again its kind of random and out of nowhere

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I'm not sure whether it's going to be sky train or underground train. I think I read somewhere here on Samakomlao before.

 

kino wrote:

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bip_01 wrote:

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they are really making a sky train? just wondering (to kino)
i guess it would be easier if they wanted to start now where it would be easier to build
but then again its kind of random and out of nowhere

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I'm not sure whether it's going to be sky train or underground train. I think I read somewhere here on Samakomlao before.

 

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I don't think so. I don't think there is the need of people to use sky train or subway in Lao yet and the people can't efford to pay for those trasportation yet. By 2020, I will be happy to see all road of Lao has good condition and every villages of Lao has electricity and public cleaned water t use. Good public buses transportation, good rapid trains from Thailand, Lao to Vietnam then to China. And bigger international airports which no need to be big like in Bangkok or Hongkong

That's it. I will be very happy to see Lao is changing (if it can be happen but don't expect too much)

 

hopefully, it will be more liveable and life is easier to the majority of the poor, but then this is wishful thinking.

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kino wrote:

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bip_01 wrote:

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they are really making a sky train? just wondering (to kino)
i guess it would be easier if they wanted to start now where it would be easier to build
but then again its kind of random and out of nowhere

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I'm not sure whether it's going to be sky train or underground train. I think I read somewhere here on Samakomlao before.

 

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I don't think so. I don't think there is the need of people to use sky train or subway in Lao yet and the people can't efford to pay for those trasportation yet. By 2020, I will be happy to see all road of Lao has good condition and every villages of Lao has electricity and public cleaned water t use. Good public buses transportation, good rapid trains from Thailand, Lao to Vietnam then to China. And bigger international airports which no need to be big like in Bangkok or Hongkong

That's it. I will be very happy to see Lao is changing (if it can be happen but don't expect too much)

 

 

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Vientiane needs good public transportation like sky train.  The streets are clogged with cars and motocycles.  Building more roads is really futile because in a few years they will be congested too.  The Vientiane municipal government should starts taxing car and motorcycle owners to help pay for public transportation system.  

 

Kwanjai wrote:

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Why are some Laotian in here want vientiane to look like Bang****? That city look ugly and messy. Laos should do there city like HONG KONG or Singapore is much modern and look better.

-- Edited by Kwanjai on Monday 21st of September 2009 05:00:52 AM

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 Are you sure you want Lao to set the city like Singapore or Hongkong? Eventhough that dream may 100 years far but I want you to think that are you really want to stay in the high flat and no enough land to live?

I think I like Bangkok even it's look messy but it has unigue by its own. But if you live and stay in the downtown of Bangkok which near sky trains or subways I think it's nice place. If it's too ugly like you said why Bangkok still be at the world's top 10 best city? And top 3 in Asia?

By 2020 is just about 10 years, you think we gonna make it in Bangkok city? or just look like Phom Penh?? ummm..hard to say and hard to be possible too. If there is miracle and Lao have economic boom like in Dubai or Qarta. Oh yeah..10 years maybe possible.

But for right now, I can't see the way but anyway, 2020 most of you & me will be almost 40 years old so let's see

I think Laos should look more like a river front city with glass high rise would be beautiful. And the Laotian city can be dense and rise so we can have more land open and close to nature.

poster doesn't has any creative idea to create the topic, this is really stupid to post on samakhomlao and i saw similiar topic in the post, it's enough for me,  for example: what vientiane will look like by 2020, what laos will look like by 2020, blabla bla, and i see anyone of you here are stupid as well to join and give some comments and post some photo that blabla, Laos would be like this would be like that!!!!10 years is nothing, you guys can guess what laos will be...STUPID, STUPID

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poster doesn't has any creative idea to create the topic, this is really stupid to post on samakhomlao and i saw similiar topic in the post, it's enough for me,  for example: what vientiane will look like by 2020, what laos will look like by 2020, blabla bla, and i see anyone of you here are stupid as well to join and give some comments and post some photo that blabla, Laos would be like this would be like that!!!!10 years is nothing, you guys can guess what laos will be...STUPID, STUPID

STUP

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I can't agree more and more than that is an agument about thai if not about thai then is about lao members here attacking each other. It is getting boring.

 

more people , more cars and more pollution and more Chinese and Vietnamese and less Lao people because every day and every years hundred of people from Laos are going to Thailand and looking for jobs because they could work for foreign companies in Laos while thousand of Chinese and Vietnamese are working in Laos. Lao people will be the minority of our own country and a second class citizen. The Chinese and the Vietnamese will control and own most of the business and most of the land. The majority of Lao people are still going to be less educated and will be living in the countryside and the city of slum .

May be look like this

                   You right, I agree with you,

           They think too much & too far.  

        Look at VIENTIAN 50 years ago. Rue SAMSENTHAI. They shoot from 4 way traffic
        ( Talat leng Sihorm )
               

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Dont you have any "vision"  for Laos at all. That's a pity. Maybe you should enroll in a crash course in strategic planning. If you have a vision for Laos then it will prompt you to make a mission; that mission will translate into objectives; those little objectives will make you think of strategies, those strategies will guide your actions. Finally, those little actions will lead you gradually to your mission and vision. No wonder why Lao is so so slow to improve, because some people like you have no strategic thinking at all. I hope you are not one of Laos decision makers.... otherwise, oh what a pity!

 

Many European countries are beautiful because not of high rise buildings but the Architectures, well plans, well layout.... with good infra-structures, have a look at Paris they called Paris 'A City of Ramance' not because of tall buildings. Hong Kong for examples, many western people call Hong Kong a City of Concrete Junks, Why they built these sort of buildings in Hongkong, I believe that everybody already knew the answer,....because lack of land, but for LAO if you travel around the country there are miles and miles of land without people, that's why LAO have to build high rise buildings, but if LAO built these sort of buildings who is going to live there where are the customers?...Many lao people who live in the western countries think LAO did not or does have a vision, I think they are wrong, LAO does have a vision but according to LAO populations and being LAO istself.

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All lao get Education that's all. and everything else will take care it self.

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   I agree with you 100% . Education is the key ( brain and mind , science and economy). But the government spend only 3% of the budget on education and depending on the foreign scholarship each year which is not enough .

 

if its gonna look like that can someone tell me where lao people will live cause won't there be alot of chinese living there

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hopefully laos would look great for all we know

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 may be good for the rich but for the majority of the local people are going to be poor and more homeless and living in the city of slum.

i wish we could help the poor people

Kwanjai wrote:

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Why are some Laotian in here want vientiane to look like Bang****? That city look ugly and messy. Laos should do there city like HONG KONG or Singapore is much modern and look better.

-- Edited by Kwanjai on Monday 21st of September 2009 05:00:52 AM

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          Kwanjai, why did you say Bang.....Are you trying to say Bangkok?
          If so, I just saw you comment posted that you rather leave in
          Thailand because Laos is poor and dirty. You are now saying
          Bang....is ugly and messy. What are you Nut Cake?

Anonymous wrote:

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Kwanjai wrote:

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Why are some Laotian in here want vientiane to look like Bang****? That city look ugly and messy. Laos should do there city like HONG KONG or Singapore is much modern and look better.

-- Edited by Kwanjai on Monday 21st of September 2009 05:00:52 AM

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Kwanjai, why did you say Bang.....Are you trying to say Bangkok?
If so, I just saw you comment posted that you rather leave in
Thailand because Laos is poor and dirty. You are now saying
Bang....is ugly and messy. What are you Nut Cake?

 

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What are you talking about????? Are you having trouble reading my comments? please read it over again ok? You are Pathetic please leave me alone if u have nothing relating to the topic ok?

Laos will be be like Chinese -Lao and Vietnam-Lao.