URBAN PLANNING 2

Alphabetic division AF - GZ

Course Sheet

Course code:

AI229

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017

Year of supply:

2018/2019

Divisions:

Gruppo A

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of Single Cycle Degree 5 years in ARCHITECTURE

Disciplinary Sector:

Urban Studies

Is part of:

URBAN PLANNING 2

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

FUSERO Paolo

Cycle:

Second semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

100

Individual study hours:

150

Prerequisites:

To take the Urban Planning 2 exam it is necessary to have passed the Urban Planning 1 exam

Objectives

The course is in continuity with the previous one of Urban Planning 1 and intends to make the student acquire the ability to interpret the relationships that link the transformation processes of the city and the territory with the theories and tools of urban planning, also taking into account some environmental issues of great relevance such as land use and climate change.

Contents

The 2A Urban Planning Course (10 cfu) by prof. Paolo Fusero consists of two complementary didactic activities:
- a series of multidisciplinary lessons on climate change held by experts;
- a design exercise that simulates an urban regeneration plan for a suburb of Pescara.

Cycle of lessons.
The theme chosen for the academic year 2018-19 are climate changes, or rather the study of their effects on the transformation processes of the territory. The theme is developed through 8 meetings with experts in the field who are confronted on the subject, each one from the point of view of its discipline: from the meteorologist to the doctor, from the economist to the geopolitical, from the geologist to the oceanographer, from the biologist to the architect. The goal is to offer architecture students a multidisciplinary vision on such a sensitive issue, to prepare them to consciously face the delicate role that awaits them: to design cities and territories resilient to the disastrous effects of climate change.
The cycle of lessons is open to all those interested in the topic: from students of other degree courses, to environmental associations, to ordinary citizens, etc. After each lesson there will be a short debate animated by the students of the course. Students of the course will then be required to report the contents of each lesson and subsequent debates in a special book in A3 format.

Design exercise.
The scope of the exercise is the one facing the Pescara airport, object of the "Fontanelle-Sambuceto" urban regeneration Plan in the past few years. It is an area of about 100 hectares located in the beating heart of one of the main economic districts of Abruzzo, the metropolitan area Chieti-Pescara, crossed by the most important infrastructural infrastructures and territorial equipment of the Region. Nonetheless, the Fontanelle-Sambuceto area developed without an ordering design, assuming the appearance of a suburb without identity and, moreover, with evident problems of urban functioning. The students are assigned a sub-scope of the project on which they will have to carry out a series of territorial analyzes to then develop a meta-design idea formalized through specific technical papers. The analysis and project work is conducted by the students in groups of two, and is assisted in the classroom by tutors. Every week the exercise activity is introduced by the professor, who will set the work to do in the classroom and the one to bring back home. The following week the tutors will review the students' work checking the correct performance of the assigned tasks.

Extended Syllabus

LESSONS

The cycle of lessons that make up the TTU program is divided into eight lessons held by experts in the field. The aim is to offer students a multidisciplinary view on the theme of climate change, in anticipation of the delicate role that awaits them: to become the designers of a city of the future that will increasingly have to face the effects of climate change.

Below is the calendar with an indication of the topics.

Thu 28 Feb 2019 Lesson_1: CLIMATOLOGY
Piero di Carlo (Uni Chieti) Introduction to the physical foundations of climate change

Tue 7 Mar 2019 Lesson_2 ECONOMY
Valentini (Uni Chieti) Environmental Economics and Climate Change

Thu 14 Mar 2019 Lesson_3: OCEANOGRAPHY
Piero Lionello (Uni Salento) Climate changes and changes in sea levels

Thu 21 Mar 2019 Lesson_4: MEDICINE
Mauro Bologna (Uni Aquila) Environmental pathologies that can be linked to climate change

Thu 28 Mar 2019 Lesson_5: BIOLOGY
Carlo Calfapietra (CNR) Urban forests: biology and climate change

Thu 4 Apr 2019 Lesson_6: GEOPOLITICS
Luca Cetata Climate change, conflict and migration

Thursday 11 April 2019 Lesson_7: GEOLOGY
CMCC (?) O Cà Foscari Hydrogeological disruptions caused by climate change

Thu 18 Apr 2019 Lesson_8: ARCHITECTURE
Francesco Musco IUAV Designing the city of the future: the challenge of climate change

EXERCISE ACTIVITIES

The activities of the Urban Planning 2 course are aimed at getting the student to become familiar with the main tools of the urban profession. Students gathered in groups of 2 members are called upon to try out: basic and thematic maps, basic legends and themes, inspection techniques, representation techniques, general and thematic analyzes, implementing technical regulations, general and sector legislation, local urban instrumentation, parameters and urban indexes, sizing and calculations, themed research on the Internet, use of ICT in urban planning.
Through specific teaching methods the students learn to carry out some basic analysis on the study area assigned to them, simulating the elaboration of an Urban Regeneration Plan in a suburb of Pescara.
The exercise work is guided in the classroom by the professor who, with the help of the tutors, reviews the progress of the students' work on a weekly basis. The professor weekly introduces the ex cathedra topics and provides students with the tools to perform the inspections (physical and virtual) and to produce the graphic elaborations requested during the week. Students work independently during the week and bring the materials produced to the professor for weekly verification. The constant presence in the classroom of the professor and tutors guarantees to the students any clarification or suggestion on the work to be done. At the end of the exercise the students deliver the products produced in an A3 format book; the professor assigns to the project book an evaluation that contributes, through weighted average with the book of the cycle of lessons, to the definition of the final grade.
The calendar of exercise activities is shown below.

Recommended Bibliography

- G. Astengo, Urbanistica, in Enciclopedia Universale dell'Arte, vol. XIV, Roma 1966.
- P. Gabellini, Tecniche urbanistiche, Carocci ed., Roma 2001;
- E. Salzano, Fondamenti di urbanistica. La storia e la norma, Laterza ed., Bari 2003
- G. Lombardini, V, Scelsi, Bruno Gabrielli: città e piani, Franco Angeli ed., Milano 2018
La bibliografia relativa al ciclo di lezioni sui cambiamenti climatici è indicata dagli autori al termine della lezione

Teaching Methods

The cycle of lessons on climate change is divided into eight meetings with sector experts who analyze the topic from the point of view of their scientific discipline. At the end of each lesson the students are required to animate the debate by asking questions or asking for further information. Students will have to collect the summary of the lesson in an A3 format book, enriching it with further information on the thematic bibliography that will be indicated from time to time by the speakers. The sum of the synthesis of the lessons will constitute a dossier that will be evaluated by the professor and which will constitute part of the exam vote.
The exercise activity is carried out in groups of 2 students. Each group conducts the learning activities through an assigned methodology that is explained from time to time during the business meetings. Normally every laboratory day is initiated by an introduction by the professor who defines the topics and provides the techniques and methodologies to be used. Following the analysis and design work followed by the tutors. At the end of the day the students must have completed the task assigned to them in the classroom and have set up the graphic tables which will then be defined by the work to be done at home for the following week.
The 2A Planning course of prof. Paolo Fusero offers students a dedicated section of the professor's website: www.paolofusero.it/didattica. The section contains a complex set of online services such as the bulletin board (where all communications with students take place), the mail box, the programs, the schedule of activities, reservations, information, test evaluations, etc. From the site it is also possible to download the didactic material of all the ex cathedra lessons and the project exercises. The course also uses a Facebook group used for quick exchanges of information between the professor, tutors and students.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The final evaluation of the Planning course consists of the weighted average of the assessments acquired by the students: 1) in the dossier that collects the synthesis of the ex cathedra lessons, 2) in the summary books of the exercise activity containing the analyzes and the project proposals concerning the simulation of the Urban Regeneration Plan.

Contacts/More Information

The 2A Town planning course of prof. Paolo Fusero is held in the second semester in classroom 39 on Thursday from 15:00 to 19:00 and on Friday from 10:00 to 13:30

The cycle of lessons on climate change is open to all those interested: students of other degree courses, environmental associations, ordinary citizens, professional orders, etc.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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