Environmental Planning and Land Policy

A.Y. 2020/2021
6
Max ECTS
48
Overall hours
SSD
ICAR/20
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
The aim of the course is to provide students with theoretical and operational tools to analyze, interpret and evaluate urban and territorial systems, examined in their environmental context and within the framework of natural and anthropic risks to which they are subjected, with particular attention to rural and extra-urban areas at different scales. Particular attention will be paid to the construction of theoretical and operational tools for analyzing, interpreting and explaining phenomena and processes concerning environmental and landscape resources in territorial government processes, experimenting techniques in application cases at different scales.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the educational path, the student will acquire a critical approach to the urban project to analyze, interpret and evaluate urban and territorial systems and assess the sustainability of development processes with respect to environmental systems. The student will develop operational skills in the field of territorial, environmental and landscape planning and design in order to intervene in planning processes and develop critical skills that will allow him to make explicit the decision-making processes that govern the effects of planning choices on the evolution of territorial systems and environmental issues to the public and operators.
Single course

This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.

Course syllabus and organization

Single session

Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
The following information may vary in relation to the rules that will be in effect at the beginning of the second semester. In the actual context of the health emergency, the lessons will be held on the Microsoft Teams platform. Students will be able to follow class in synchrony, based on the timetable of the second semester, and asynchronously. Lessons for this purpose will be recorded and left available to students on the same platform for the semester.
In order to support learning, meetings will periodically be organized with students. According to emergency, they will be in presence or in synchronous mode .
The program and reference material will not change. For each update, students are invited to contact the Teacher.
Course syllabus
Lectures focused on acquiring tools to diagnose the physical, historical-cultural, ecological-environmental, landscape and socio-economic characteristics of a large-scale territorial system in order to build a critical planning framework to safeguard the environmental quality in a sustainable development.
Topics covered:

- Interpretation of territorial processes
- Sustainable planning
- Main large area planning models
- Relations between natural, anthropic and built environment.
- Analysis of the settlement and infrastructural system
- Elements of forestation and land design
- Study and evaluation of environmental problems
- Landscape analysis
- Construction of the cognitive framework to guide planning and territorial planning choices
- Transformation actions and strategic evaluations
- Environment and use: the design of protected areas
- Reference regulatory apparatus
- Application aspects: Proposals for development scenarios and plan actions
Prerequisites for admission
The course has no specific prerequisites for admission
Teaching methods
In developing the program, lectures are integrated with practical activities. The aim is understand how to apply
technical and design knowledge to managing environmental system in spatial and urban planning.
The available resources and training activities are functional to achieving the expected learning outcomes. Teaching provides students with criteria and methods to outline strategies and approaches to meet agro-environmental systems.
The teaching uses e-learning didactic material available on the Ariel teaching platform during the teaching .
The teacher will use lectures, thematic insights and exercises proposed to students to discuss, analyze and report in the classroom the results achieved.
Following the context of the health emergency, field trip could be replaced by seminars.
Students have the chance to apply what they learn in lectures to actual on their own cases study.
The development of the case study, to be prepared along the development of the teaching will allow the student to deepen the knowledge, in the form and content of the tools for the analysis, programming, planning, and management of a system agri-environment, within the framework of natural and anthropogenic risks and in relation to the provisions of the reference regulations.
Moments of review and comparison to accompany students in their own case study may take place at the end of the lessons.
At the end of the Teaching, students will present the results of their elaboration in seminar form in order to develop the ability to communicate and transmit what they have learned.
Students are required of following activities:
Individual study of the textbooks and study materials assigned by the teacher; Free work on in-depth texts of choice; Conduct of the exercises assigned by the teacher, through the drafting - individual or in small working groups - of technical reports.
Case Study provides students the opportunity to apply the concepts learned and more deeply research and analyse a selected built cultural property.
OTHER INFORMATION
Although attendance will not be formally taken at lectures, it is strongly recommended.
The course will be held in Italian language.
Teaching Resources
Bibliography
Teaching materials available on www.ariel.it
Bibliography
Textbook assignments:
Agostini S., Urbanistica periagricola. Pratiche di rigenerazione territoriale, Maggioli, 2018
The text is available at the Library of the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences.

Further reading
Fabiano N., Paolillo P.L., La valutazione ambientale nel piano, Maggioli, 2008
Assessment methods and Criteria
Attending Students
In relation to the context of the health emergency, attending students will be considered those who participate, even asynchronously, in the class of the M.Teams platform. They also will be able to participate, even deferred, in the exercises proposed during the development of the lessons.
The final exam focuses on an oral text focused on practical tasks: Attending students will develop throughout the course a critical analysis of a case study. This critical review will be deepened, updated and revised throughout the semester, and presented in a final seminar.
The final mark will combine together the evaluation of assigned task during the course and the assessment of oral text.

Non-Attending Students
Non-attending students are required to write a paper on a case study according the Teacher. The final examination will consist on an oral examination about the contents of the course and bibliography, includind a further reading assigned by the Teacher, as well as on the introduction of case study analysed.
For the further reading, a short note (2,000 words in length ) must be drawn up. The short note with the paper on case study have to be submittted to the Teacher a week before the final exam.
The final assessment of the non-attending student will derive from the combination of the overall test result.

General instructions
If the rules do not allow attendance, the oral exam will take place using the M.Teams or Zoom platforms.
The final mark will be expressed in thirtieths. It will be the weighted average of the assessments achieved by the exam tests and case study developed
The evaluation parameters will be aimed at ascertaining:
-the achievement of the objectives in terms of knowledge and understanding
- the ability to apply knowledge and understanding through the discussion / evaluation of sustainability of planning strategies on agro-environmental resources.


- the student's independence of judgment also through the analysis of case studies discussed during the course or illustrated in textbooks


- the language correctness and appropriateness relating to regional, environmental and urban planning.


- the ability to explain the analyses and formulate hypothesis of development clearly and logically.
ICAR/20 - URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING - University credits: 6
Lessons: 48 hours
Professor: Agostini Stella
Professor(s)
Reception:
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