Milan and Saigon: A Dialogue on Water, Memory, and Urban Futures What happens when a city forgets its waters? And what future can we imagine if it chooses to remember? Milan and Ho Chi Minh City , two cities as distant as Europe and Southeast Asia, are brought together in this short visual essay—not by their similarities, but by the contrast in their relationship with water. Milan, once a city shaped by its Navigli canals, buried its waters in pursuit of modernity. Streets

Saigon can take advantage of Milan’s experience to plan its future developments based on its water network, as the new structure of its master plan. Green areas could be linked with waterways to create the sustainable structure of the new city. Milan , after 100 years of industrialization and modernization has realized to have lost its historical relationship with water; rivers and canals have been buried and they are now hidden underground. As a key element of the natural la