Even if Leonardo da Vinci never projected an ideal city, he left us so many drawings of buildings and machines related to the city and urban life.
For this reason it was possible to carry out the big challenge of proposing an "ideal city" that Leonardo could have projected assembling the most of this studies. The starting point of our work is the big model of the city hosted in the museum and made in the 50's.

 


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