Urban Nature is Not a Decoration – Critical Notes for a New Green City
by Francesco Procacci
 
Cities today are full of green images: towers wrapped in plants, rooftops turned into gardens, plazas with decorative trees.
But behind the images, the reality remains the same: hotter streets, polluted canals, floods, and the absence of real public space.
 
This book is both a critique and a proposal.

It exposes the illusions of “greenwashing” in contemporary urbanism — vertical forests, rooftop gardens, symbolic plazas — and argues for a radical shift: from decoration to system.
 
Across 92 pages, Francesco Procacci combines critical essays, design principles, and case studies from Europe and Southeast Asia:
🌳 Trees as infrastructure, not ornaments
🌊 Water as structure, not emergency
🏙 Four scales of landscape thinking — from soil fungi to planetary climate
🌍 Case studies: The Great Ring of Milan, Central Park in Saigon, Mortirolo Eco-Bike Park, Saigon South Eco-Park
 
This is not a manual. It is a manifesto — an invitation to rethink cities as ecosystems of life, not machines of consumption.
📖 Format: PDF, 92 pages, A4 horizontal
📌 Language: English