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The most famous trait of the Old Quarter are its areas dedicated to one specific trade or guild. Craftsmen from villages around the city used to gather in one area of their guild to sell their wares to merchants. The crafts or guilds of each area gave the names to the streets of the quarter, so that
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Most craft streets used to have a temple dedicated to worshiping mythical founders of the craft. Particular is that the ground floor of such communal temples in the Hanoi Old Quarter was often still used for commerce. With the passage of time, most such communal temples have been destroyed. Several
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in 2010, the Hanoi People's Committee decided to spend 50 billion VND on the refurbishing of 75 streets inside and outside the Old Quarter, among others for applying lime to restore the yellow color of façades in the Old Quarter. The process has been criticised for having been executed carelessly,
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Several of the streets are still specialized in the trade that gave them their names. Others still specialize in one specific trade, but a different one from their traditional specialty — such as Hàng Buồm street ("sails street") which has become dominated by
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During the Lý and Trần dynasties, many people from the surrounding plains migrated to the city and settled in what is now the Old Quarter, creating the densest urban area of the city. The Lê dynasty period saw an additional influx of
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with slanted tile roofs, of which the side facing the street used to be used as entrance to the shop inside. Houses of this type were mostly built in the 18th and 19th centuries — before that most houses had thatched roofs.
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The Old Quarter has been shown by researchers using the quantitative social anthropology approach to have exhibited Hanoi's cultural evolution during the first decades of the 20th century.
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already mentioned some of the areas each specialized in one particular trade. It was then surrounded by a defensive wall with several gates.
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During the Lê dynasty, the area included several lakes and wetlands, the largest of which was Thái Cực lake. These lakes, as well as the
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Vuong, Q.-H.; Bui, Q.-K.; La, V.-P.; Vuong, T.-T.; Ho, M.-T.; Nguyen, T. H.-K.; Nguyen, H.-N.; Nghiem, P. K.-C.; Ho, M.-T. (2019).
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Characteristic of the Old Quarter is the ancient architecture of the commercial area. Most of the historic houses there are
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The ancient gate of the house at 29 Lê Ngọc Hân Street (formerly Lữ Gia Street), Hai Bà Trưng District, Hanoi)
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Many of the historic remnants of the Old Quarter have deteriorated and are in need of restoration. For the
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Several city gates were located in what is now the Old Quarter. Only the Quan Chưởng gate is still left
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has created many paintings of the Old Quarter, pioneering a particular school of Vietnamese painting.
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Since the end of the 20th century, the number of traditional houses have been dwindling in number.
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The official extent of the Hanoi Old Quarter has been fixed by a 1995 decision from the Vietnamese
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The Old Quarter contains many historic sights, such as temples, pagodas, and assembly halls.
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settling there to conduct business. Two small markets were demolished to make place for
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The residential and commercial area that is now the Old Quarter came to be during the
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Phê duyêt quy hoạch bảo vệ, tôn tạo và phát triển khu phố cổ Hà Nội
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who arrived to trade, creating several Chinese neighbourhoods..
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Another common name referring to approximately the same area is
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temples have survived, such as the Mã Mây and Kim Cổ temples.
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Typical French Indochina architecture in the old quarter
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Quan Chưởng Gate, the remaining city gate of old Hanoi
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