Urban planning was born with a modernist idea: divide the city by functions. Homes here, schools there. Factories at the edge. Each area with one purpose, clearly separated from the rest. But cities — and lives — don’t work like that anymore. Let’s look at four traditional urban functions and how they’re shifting: 📍 Home is no longer just “home” A place for work, care, learning, entertainment. One room, many lives. 📍 The street is a plaza Not just for cars. In many cities,

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

The Great Ring of Hanoi is a visionary project and proposal for the creation of a large linear ring park for the Vietnamese capital city, of such dimensions as to be visible even from space (like the great wall of China). It is a project that takes inspiration from the Great Green Belt of London, a fundamental piece in the culture of urban and regional planning worldwide. In this particular case the green belt really takes the form of a large green ring, with a radius of 14 k

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

How can city planning encourage more sustainable cycle-pedestrian mobility? 🚲 🛴 🚶‍♂️ Based on my academic researches and my twenty years of experience in the urban design sector, it is possible to design cities more people and cycle friendly, for the benefit of the overall urban environment and the people health and safety. This brief research contains my main considerations and key points on the topic, with the hope that it can be useful for the community interested in th

Another myth in the daily activity of architectural and urban planning in the realities of South East Asia are the rules of Feng Shui. Feng Shui is a pseudoscience originating from China, which claims to be a pseudoscience. Translated from the Chinese word "water and wind" , principles that literally can inspire the design of human settlements as well as individual buildings. Every designer who works in Asian contexts knows how important it is to design according to this pri