Books, visual essays and frameworks for rethinking cities as living systems.
Research, design experience and critical reflections on ecological urbanism, urban nature and the future of cities.
COMING SOON
THE ACCESSIBLE CITY
Designing Urban Life Beyond Proximity
What if proximity is not the same as accessibility?
The Accessible City explores how people actually reach, use and experience the opportunities of urban life — moving beyond the idea that a good city can simply be measured by what lies within a certain distance from home.
Drawing on more than twenty years of living and working between Europe and Vietnam, the book examines accessibility through very different urban conditions — from Monza and the metropolitan territory of Milan to the alleys, mobility networks and everyday services of Saigon, and the dispersed geography of Valtellina.
Rather than asking only “What is nearby?”, it asks a more important question:
“What can you actually access?”
The book develops this shift from proximity to accessibility into a practical way of reading and designing cities — connecting mobility, time, services, public space, digital access and the experience of the journey itself.
FEATURED PUBLICATION
THE ECOLOGICAL CITY
Designing Cities as Living Systems
A 268-page visual master class exploring how soil, water, shade, vegetation, mobility, proximity and urban form can operate as interconnected ecological systems.
Developed from more than twenty-five years of international design experience, the book introduces the Ecological Diagnostic Framework as a practical method for reading and designing cities.
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