The Urban Planning Course 2 (10 CFU) offers its participants learning how to use the main tools and methodologies for interpreting the urban context, aimed at developing a medium complexity urban project.
The more general training objectives of the course, in accordance with the given definition of the relevant sector (ICAR 21), tend to pursue the approach to:
1. “knowledge of the processes of formation and transformation of the organizational structures and morphologies of human settlements;
2. the relative problems of interaction of the settlements with the natural environment and with the other territorial contexts;
3. the theoretical definition of the conceptual systems that are proper to the urban plan;
4. the methods, tools and practices of physical planning and design, recovery, requalification and reorganization of settlements at all scales ".
Specifically, the Urban Planning Fundamentals course aims to help students develop a critical approach to the discipline, enabling them to:
- "identify, formulate, (and in part) solve the problems it deals with, using appropriate methods, techniques and tools" (and sufficiently updated);
- know and use the most appropriate "tools and forms of representation";
- discern "on the methodological - operational aspects" (providing evidence, for example, of knowing how to develop a work program with autonomy and competence);
- distinguish and analyze, albeit still in an elementary form, the "aspects concerning the technical and economic feasibility" of the design intentions.
Didactic methods
- Ex catedra lessons
The lessons are aimed at providing students, through texts and online references, with the basic theoretical coordinates of the discipline, through the critical analysis of its evolution, up to its current conditions and future prospects.
- Didactic Communications
Focus on mostly technical topics, and make use of the collaboration of the course assistants, or the presence of qualified external experts.
- Exercises.
- Workshop.
Verification of learning.
The course prescribes the mandatory presence of the enrolled students.
The exam takes place individually through the presentation of the materials prepared during the exercise in working groups made up of a maximum of two students, and the discussion of the topics presented in the ex catedra lessons and in the didactic communications.
The final evaluation is carried out through the following criteria:
1. Clarity and completeness and originality of the graphic designs in consideration of the coherence of the interpretative procedure;
2. ability to intelligently use sources, field and network surveys;
3. consistency and rigor of the methodological system of analysis and project proposal.
Critical ability and clarity of exposure are also favorably assessed.
Basic Bibliography:
Francoise Choay, La città. Utopie e realtà, Einaudi, Torino, 1973 (1965)
Patrizia Gabellini, Tecniche urbanistiche, Carocci editore, Roma 2001
Patrizia Gabellini, Le mutazioni dell'urbanistica. Principi, tecniche, competenze, Carocci editore, Roma, 2018
Theoretical orientation texts:
Bernardo Secchi, La città dei ricchi e la città dei poveri, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2013.
Franco La Cecla, Contro l’urbanistica, Einaudi, Torino, 2015
Paolo Berdini, Le città fallite, Donzelli Editore, Roma, 2014.
Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge University Press, 1990. Traduzione italiana: Governare i beni collettivi, Marsilio, Venezia, 2006.
Paolo Pileri, Elena Granata, Amor loci. Suolo, ambiente, cultura civile, Libreria Cortina, Milano, 2012
Paolo Maddalena, Il territorio bene comune degli italiani. Proprietà collettiva, proprietà private e interesse pubblico, Donzelli Editore, Roma, 2014.
