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The PhD objective is to demonstrate that the report qualitative aspects of city-dwellers toward the environment in urban areas are fundamental for assuming a better future of urban population in South East Asia. More particularly, we take the case of Hô Chi Minh City (Vietnam) which exhibits the extreme contradictions between a fast growing urbanism and the life quality bound to the appreciation of environment. We will detail those contradictions though the study of park in HCMC. 25 professional interviews and 300 questionnaires are carried out in 6 different places (3 parks, 1 garden, 1 arroyo and 1 avenue). Therefore, it allows us to deepen the inhabitant attitudes toward the environment in town and to reach a better knowledge of urban practices and the preferences of the city-dwellers concerning the green areas in the prospect of their arrangement and management... The investigation results appear on these two aspects: Concerning the management of green areas, we notice that the system of administration is undefined clearly and for the least ambiguous, as result conflicts emerge attributable to a misunderstanding among the inhabitants and the persons responsible for the green area development in HCMC. Through the study of the attitudes of the inhabitants toward the nature in town, we find that according to the city-dwellers of HCMV the practices of the nature are strongly connected to their everyday lives. We show how the relation to the nature reflects the culture as well as the Vietnamese civilization. On the other hand, the presence of the nature in town seems to have become a condition of the quality of life of the city-dwellers, which is almost bound to their survivals. Our work brings a new glance on what occurs in a developing country. We have shown the importance of the vegetable, which does not limit itself to parks or public gardens, but which also shows itself in the houses where the city-dwellers show their tastes and their preferences.