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

Placing New York City's Central Park in the center of Saigon at its correct scale is not simply a naïve Photoshop exercise. This is a provocation to support the idea that the population of the metropolitan city of Ho Chi Minh City and its neighboring provinces strongly needs a regional park of such size to host countless recreational and sporting activities, as well as representing a green lung and home to biodiversity. In this short research I have analyzed the most importa

By living for 20 years in Ho Chi Minh City, I felt the necessity to create a "vision" for its southern region. I believe that one of the needs of the vast current urban region is to enhance the network of its rivers and canals, which can form the backbone for imagining a different urban development , more oriented towards green eco-compatible models. In this master plan I try to imagine this different development model, through the creation of an "eco urban park", that is, an

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