A Central Park in Saigon
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...
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Francesco Procacci
Aug 41 min read
The Great Ring of Hanoi
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,...
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Francesco Procacci
Oct 2, 20231 min read
Saigon South Eco-Park: a water + nature + agriculture based community
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...
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Francesco Procacci
Sep 22, 20231 min read
Would you like to live in a city without cars?
How can city planning encourage more sustainable cycle-pedestrian mobility? 🚲 🛴 🚶♂️ Based on my academic researches and my twenty...
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Francesco Procacci
Aug 20, 20231 min read
VIETNAM COASTLINE: FIGHTING AGAINTS ITS PRIVATIZATION
The need for Vietnam to develop an urban planning of its coasts appears increasingly necessary, even in the face of the innumerable...
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Francesco Procacci
Jul 29, 20231 min read
SAIGON IN URBAN PERSPECTIVES
This is a research I conducted a few years ago entitled "Saigon in urban perspectives". It shows in a photographic key how two cities...
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Francesco Procacci
Oct 16, 20221 min read
GREEN APRICA MASTER PLAN 2030
LA SPIRALE VERDE APRICA-CORTENO 2030 Green Aprica è un Master Plan per il territorio ed il comprensorio turistico di Aprica e Corteno...
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Francesco Procacci
Feb 11, 20211 min read
Cittadinanza sociale e territorio
La cittadinanza è un concetto antico e polisemico. Nonostante la sua indubbia rilevanza il termine non trova spazio in alcuni dei più...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20191 min read
Il Master Plan di Teglio
l Master Plan del Comune di Teglio e’ un documento programmatico e progettuale di indirizzo strategico rivolto all”Amministrazione...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20191 min read
Yangon new city
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...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20192 min read
A country retreat and residences in Da Nang
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...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20191 min read
The new business and tourism gateway to Europe
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...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20191 min read
A green Japanese town: experience the landscape
The master plan design takes advantage of the unique and interesting topography of the site. The natural hills and gently elevations give...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20191 min read
A new concept of living green in Quang Nam
The master plan design concept takes shape from the natural landscape of Vietnam: rivers, fields, mountains. Coco River is the main...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20191 min read
A green hi-tech village for Montreal
The city of Montreal is looking for "integrated innovation": "The old days when everyone could work in silos are gone. Today, social,...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20191 min read
An integrated green urban resort in Vietnam
We envision a new green ecological integrated resort that is inspired by the beauty of the natural landscape of Nha Trang and the...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20191 min read
Towers of Cambodia: an oximore of eco-development
The concept design aims to create a new landmark and skyline for Phnom Penh that will become the symbol of all Cambodia, representing its...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20195 min read
Francesco Procacci, my Curriculum Vitae
I have been living and designing the city since 2006 in Vietnam and South East Asia, despite not having forgotten my Italian roots, both...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20193 min read
Urban space and power: part 3
Private spaces The first and inviolable territory of the self is constituted, in the modern western states, by private property, which...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20192 min read
Urban space and power: part 2
Personal spaces The main contributions that have highlighted the personal and social processes of territoriality can be traced to...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20192 min read
Urban space and power: part 1
From animal territoriality to human territoriality Territoriality is a recent concept, set for the first time by the English...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20192 min read
Half citizens (2): the mall
In shopping centers we can be considered citizens in half: we are allowed to circulate, but only at certain times, we are allowed to...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20192 min read
Half citizens (1): forms of control in urban space
In addition to the traditional categories of analysis, some useful criteria for urban planners and experts in recognizing the nature of...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20191 min read
Saigon in urban perspectives
Saigon can take advantage of Milan’s experience to plan its future developments based on its water network, as the new structure of its...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20193 min read
Public spaces in the traditional city. Is there another model?
Jane Jacobs in 1961, with 'The death and life of great American cities' explores, from the perspective of the concrete life of city...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20192 min read
Cellular city: put the car out of the neighbourhood
Il problema che si poneva di fronte al gruppo di lavoro che elaborò il noto rapporto ‘Traffic in Towns’ (The Buchanan Report 1963) era...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20193 min read
Spazio pubblico urbano come scuola di vita
Tradizionalmente la categoria urbanistica di spazio pubblico ha fatto riferimento principalmente allo spazio aperto di proprietà...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20192 min read
Urbanity: a definition
Nel testo ‘Esplorare la città’ (1992) Hulf Hannerz ha cercato di interpretare la città da una prospettiva relazionale, cercando di...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20193 min read
The paradox of citizenship in the gated communities
Il caso delle comunità recintate (‘gated communities’) offre un esempio indicativo di come il processo di aggregazione di tante proprietà...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20193 min read
Living in a theme park
Expatriates real life in a tropical global city The experience of an amusement park is that of its hedonistic enjoyment, linked to the...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20193 min read
Green roofs to make up for real parks
Rethinking of urban planning standards in the globalisation era and crisis of the local and national governments. It is becoming more and...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20192 min read
Feng Shui: is that magical?
Another myth in the daily activity of architectural and urban planning in the realities of South East Asia are the rules of Feng Shui....
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20193 min read
Gods of GFA: a confession
This is my confession, compared to 14 years of professional activity as urban planner in Vietnam and in South East Asia The first thing...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20194 min read
A private golf course in my garden
The importance of the local and urban planning dimension of citizenship as a constitutive dimension of local communities A "private golf...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20193 min read
Hands over Saigon
The hands on the city is the translation of the speculative and predatory thrusts of private and financial capital on the public goods of...
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Francesco Procacci
Nov 3, 20192 min read
Designing new cities across Asia
Describing and illustrating more than 10 years of master planning and urban design in South East Asia and other Asian Countries is not an...
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