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Slide 1: 🚫 This is not nature. It’s architectural ego in green clothing. An iconic object. A disconnected episode. A visual gesture that...

Urban nature didn’t begin with vertical forests. It began with boulevards. In 19th-century Paris, Haussmann’s tree-lined avenues...

Same density. Different mindset. Two models of social housing — One repeats. One regenerates. On the left: Standardized blocks....

Too many “iconic” projects move squares and courtyards to rooftops or inside private buildings. Spaces that are: 🚫 Hard to reach 🚫...

For decades, Milan’s urban policies have focused on 🏙️ central towers and high‑end projects. But no large‑scale territorial vision has...

I’m tired of hearing the propaganda. The “smart city” has become an ideology — one that puts engineering above architecture, urban...

Critical Notes and Projects for a New Green City “The future of green cities won’t grow from rooftops. It starts at street level — with...

Urban planning was born with a modernist idea: divide the city by functions. Homes here, schools there. Factories at the edge. Each area...

Urban Lessons from 20 Years in Vietnam A book by Francesco Procacci “You don’t frame the South to define it. You frame it to finally see...

Milan and Saigon: A Dialogue on Water, Memory, and Urban Futures What happens when a city forgets its waters? And what future can we...

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...

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,...

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...

How can city planning encourage more sustainable cycle-pedestrian mobility? 🚲 🛴 🚶‍♂️ Based on my academic researches and my twenty...

A global design dilemma, told through Vietnam’s shores. What’s happening along the coast of Vietnam is not unique— but it is emblematic....

This is a research I conducted a few years ago entitled "Saigon in urban perspectives". It shows in a photographic key how two cities...

LA SPIRALE VERDE APRICA-CORTENO 2030 Green Aprica è un Master Plan per il territorio ed il comprensorio turistico di Aprica e Corteno...

La cittadinanza è un concetto antico e polisemico. Nonostante la sua indubbia rilevanza il termine non trova spazio in alcuni dei più...

l Master Plan del Comune di Teglio e’ un documento programmatico e progettuale di indirizzo strategico rivolto all”Amministrazione...

We have planned a new future for Yangon and Myanmar. A new green smart city in front on the old city center of Yangon and o the other...

Il villaggio is a new country retreat and residences in the center of Da Nang – Vietnam, on a total land area of 60 HA. Da Nang is a...

Marathonas eco town is a new urban development at 40 Km from the international airport of Athens, on a total land area of 1,700 HA. The...

The master plan design takes advantage of the unique and interesting topography of the site. The natural hills and gently elevations give...

The master plan design concept takes shape from the natural landscape of Vietnam: rivers, fields, mountains. Coco River is the main...

The city of Montreal is looking for "integrated innovation": "The old days when everyone could work in silos are gone. Today, social,...

We envision a new green ecological integrated resort that is inspired by the beauty of the natural landscape of Nha Trang and the...

The concept design aims to create a new landmark and skyline for Phnom Penh that will become the symbol of all Cambodia, representing its...

I have been living and designing the city since 2006 in Vietnam and South East Asia, despite not having forgotten my Italian roots, both...

Private spaces The first and inviolable territory of the self is constituted, in the modern western states, by private property, which...

Personal spaces The main contributions that have highlighted the personal and social processes of territoriality can be traced to...

From animal territoriality to human territoriality Territoriality is a recent concept, set for the first time by the English...

In shopping centers we can be considered citizens in half: we are allowed to circulate, but only at certain times, we are allowed to...

In addition to the traditional categories of analysis, some useful criteria for urban planners and experts in recognizing the nature of...

Saigon can take advantage of Milan’s experience to plan its future developments based on its water network, as the new structure of its...

Jane Jacobs in 1961, with 'The death and life of great American cities' explores, from the perspective of the concrete life of city...

Il problema che si poneva di fronte al gruppo di lavoro che elaborò il noto rapporto ‘Traffic in Towns’ (The Buchanan Report 1963) era...

Tradizionalmente la categoria urbanistica di spazio pubblico ha fatto riferimento principalmente allo spazio aperto di proprietà...

Nel testo ‘Esplorare la città’ (1992) Hulf Hannerz ha cercato di interpretare la città da una prospettiva relazionale, cercando di...

Il caso delle comunità recintate (‘gated communities’) offre un esempio indicativo di come il processo di aggregazione di tante proprietà...

Expatriates real life in a tropical global city The experience of an amusement park is that of its hedonistic enjoyment, linked to the...

Rethinking of urban planning standards in the globalisation era and crisis of the local and national governments. It is becoming more and...

Another myth in the daily activity of architectural and urban planning in the realities of South East Asia are the rules of Feng Shui....

This is my confession, compared to 14 years of professional activity as urban planner in Vietnam and in South East Asia The first thing...

The importance of the local and urban planning dimension of citizenship as a constitutive dimension of local communities A "private golf...

The hands on the city is the translation of the speculative and predatory thrusts of private and financial capital on the public goods of...

Describing and illustrating more than 10 years of master planning and urban design in South East Asia and other Asian Countries is not an...