Gianni Talamini is an architect, urbanist and scholar. He holds a Master of Architecture and a PhD in Urbanism from IUAV University Venice. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the City University of Hong Kong, where he leads the Master of Urban Design and Regional Planning. Gianni does research on the notion of organic urbanism and the relationship between society and space. He works for an environmentally innocuous, culturally leavened, and spatially just society.