Urban and Regional Geography
A.Y. 2022/2023
Learning objectives
This course will examine the most important contemporary geographic views that were influenced by the profound changes which have occurred during the last decades, activated by globalisation complex events. The appearance of new productive systems, the growing interdependence among various planet regions and the overcome of the traditional city-country relations, underline how on Earth complex historical, politics, socio-economic and cultural factors are changing material and immaterial landscapes acquired by the past. The linguistic and cultural mediator must know their redefinition and narration, in order to enhance his professional skills.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the candidate must demonstrate to have reached specific skills in analysing territorial relations on different scales. Hence, he should be prepared to read and understand the meaning of the social and spatial processes which describe the morphogenetic characters in the various urban and regional frameworks, immersed in the wider supranational and global dynamics.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
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
A-K
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The course will focus on the main concepts, objectives and methods of analysis in Urban and Regional Geography. More specifically, attention will be given to the different types of regions that will be analyzed from a multi-scale perspective (anthropic, cultural, economic, political, urban regions, etc.). The various aspects of geography (human, population, historical, economic, political, urban, etc.) will also be investigated in order to provide a systemic vision of the complexity of the planet through useful tools for the interdisciplinary dialogue with the linguistic, cultural, economic and social dimensions.
Class attendance is recommended for a better preparation of the exam. For students unable to attend, a specific program is provided. For a better understanding, the use of appropriate tools (latest editions of the atlases of Touring Club Italiano, De Agostini, Zanichelli, Le Monde Diplomatique, De Agostini Atlas Calendar, etc.) is recommended to all students.
Students - both attending and non-attending - are supposed to study:
- for 3 CFUs, only Teaching Unit A;
- for 6 CFUs, two Teaching Units (Teaching Unit A and another Teaching Unit of their choice between B and C);
- for 9 CFUs, the three Teaching Unit A, B and C.
Class attendance is recommended for a better preparation of the exam. For students unable to attend, a specific program is provided. For a better understanding, the use of appropriate tools (latest editions of the atlases of Touring Club Italiano, De Agostini, Zanichelli, Le Monde Diplomatique, De Agostini Atlas Calendar, etc.) is recommended to all students.
Students - both attending and non-attending - are supposed to study:
- for 3 CFUs, only Teaching Unit A;
- for 6 CFUs, two Teaching Units (Teaching Unit A and another Teaching Unit of their choice between B and C);
- for 9 CFUs, the three Teaching Unit A, B and C.
Prerequisites for admission
Being able to understand the variety of geographical contemporary regions with reference to their evolutions and transformations both in a diachronic (through the comparison among different historical periods) and in a synchronic dimension. Being able to observe, describe and analyse phenomena belonging to natural and anthropic reality in a systemic, heterogeneous and complex way.
Teaching methods
Face to face lectures useful to privilege the logical-conceptual language; participatory lessons supported by images, pictures, cartographic and paracartographic representations to strengthen the learning of the visual and iconographic language; interactive lessons held by the Professor and by experts on specific topics. Didactic excursions aimed at reading the landscape and the territory may be organized.
Teaching Resources
Materials for ATTENDING STUDENTS
Teaching Unit A
- Lessons and materials uploaded on the digital teaching platform Ariel.
- Frémont A., Vi piace la geografia?, edizione italiana a cura di Dino Gavinelli, Carocci, Roma, 2007 (all chapters except for chapter 18 and 19).
Teaching unit B
- Lessons and materials uploaded on the digital teaching platform Ariel.
- Gavinelli D., Goldstein Bolocan M. (a cura di). Regioni e regionalizzazioni nello spazio-mondo in divenire, Milano, Pearson, 2022.
Teaching Unit C
- Lessons and materials uploaded on the digital teaching platform Ariel.
- One text from the following list:
Amin A., Thrift N., Vedere come una città, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2020.
Gavinelli D., Zanolin G. (a cura di), La città "messa a fuoco". Territorio, società e lavoro nella fotografia della città metropolitana di Milano, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2016.
Molinari P. (a cura di), Periferie europee. Istituzioni sociali, politiche, luoghi. II tomo, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2021.
Moretti E., La nuova geografia del lavoro, Milano, Mondadori, 2017.
Tononi M., Pietta A., Città in transizione: un'analisi geografica delle relazioni socio-ecologiche a scala urbana, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2021.
Materials for NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS
Teaching Unit A
- One text from the following list:
Bjelland M.D., Montello D.R. e Getis A. Geografia umana, Milano, McGraw-Hill Education, 2020.
Greiner A.L., Dematteis G., Lanza C., Geografia umana. Un approccio visuale (terza edizione a cura di Vanolo A.), Milano,/Torino, UTET Università, 2019.
Teaching Unit B
- Gavinelli D., Goldstein Bolocan M. (a cura di), Regioni e regionalizzazioni nello spazio-mondo in divenire, Milano, Pearson, 2022.
- One text from the following list:
Cannizzaro S., Corinto G.L., Porto C.M., Il Mediterraneo: dalla frattura regionale al processo d'integrazione, Bologna, Pàtron, 2009.
Corsale A., Geografia delle minoranze tra Baltico e Mar Nero, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2016.
Gamberoni E., Pistocchi F., L'Africa Occidentale. Ritratto di un'Africa che cambia, Bologna, Patron, 2013.
Gavinelli D., Dal Borgo A.G. (a cura di), Asia-Pacifico: regione emergente. Luoghi, culture, relazioni, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2014.
Morazzoni M., Geopolitica dell'America Centrale. Le inquietudini, l'eredità, il futuro, Bologna, Archetipo, 2010.
Vaghi M. (a cura di), I mondi dell'Asia, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2016.
Zanolin G., Geografia dei Parchi Nazionali Italiani, Carocci, Roma, 2022.
Teaching Unit C
- One text from the following list:
Dematteis G., Lanza C., Le città del mondo. Una geografia urbana, Torino, UTET, 2014.
Rossi U., Vanolo A., Geografia politica urbana, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010.
Teaching Unit A
- Lessons and materials uploaded on the digital teaching platform Ariel.
- Frémont A., Vi piace la geografia?, edizione italiana a cura di Dino Gavinelli, Carocci, Roma, 2007 (all chapters except for chapter 18 and 19).
Teaching unit B
- Lessons and materials uploaded on the digital teaching platform Ariel.
- Gavinelli D., Goldstein Bolocan M. (a cura di). Regioni e regionalizzazioni nello spazio-mondo in divenire, Milano, Pearson, 2022.
Teaching Unit C
- Lessons and materials uploaded on the digital teaching platform Ariel.
- One text from the following list:
Amin A., Thrift N., Vedere come una città, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2020.
Gavinelli D., Zanolin G. (a cura di), La città "messa a fuoco". Territorio, società e lavoro nella fotografia della città metropolitana di Milano, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2016.
Molinari P. (a cura di), Periferie europee. Istituzioni sociali, politiche, luoghi. II tomo, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2021.
Moretti E., La nuova geografia del lavoro, Milano, Mondadori, 2017.
Tononi M., Pietta A., Città in transizione: un'analisi geografica delle relazioni socio-ecologiche a scala urbana, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2021.
Materials for NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS
Teaching Unit A
- One text from the following list:
Bjelland M.D., Montello D.R. e Getis A. Geografia umana, Milano, McGraw-Hill Education, 2020.
Greiner A.L., Dematteis G., Lanza C., Geografia umana. Un approccio visuale (terza edizione a cura di Vanolo A.), Milano,/Torino, UTET Università, 2019.
Teaching Unit B
- Gavinelli D., Goldstein Bolocan M. (a cura di), Regioni e regionalizzazioni nello spazio-mondo in divenire, Milano, Pearson, 2022.
- One text from the following list:
Cannizzaro S., Corinto G.L., Porto C.M., Il Mediterraneo: dalla frattura regionale al processo d'integrazione, Bologna, Pàtron, 2009.
Corsale A., Geografia delle minoranze tra Baltico e Mar Nero, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2016.
Gamberoni E., Pistocchi F., L'Africa Occidentale. Ritratto di un'Africa che cambia, Bologna, Patron, 2013.
Gavinelli D., Dal Borgo A.G. (a cura di), Asia-Pacifico: regione emergente. Luoghi, culture, relazioni, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2014.
Morazzoni M., Geopolitica dell'America Centrale. Le inquietudini, l'eredità, il futuro, Bologna, Archetipo, 2010.
Vaghi M. (a cura di), I mondi dell'Asia, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2016.
Zanolin G., Geografia dei Parchi Nazionali Italiani, Carocci, Roma, 2022.
Teaching Unit C
- One text from the following list:
Dematteis G., Lanza C., Le città del mondo. Una geografia urbana, Torino, UTET, 2014.
Rossi U., Vanolo A., Geografia politica urbana, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The final exam for all students consists in an oral discussion on the topics described in the program and aims at checking the knowledge of the key themes of Urban and Regional Geography. In particular, students will have to demonstrate they have achieved skills that are useful to read the territorial processes of contemporaneity operating at different scales. Students must also be able to use the appropriate disciplinary lexicon.
The program is valid for one academic year, starting from the end of the lessons. Therefore, for the academic year 2022/2023 it will be possible to do the exam with this program only until FEBRUARY 2024 included.
The program is valid for one academic year, starting from the end of the lessons. Therefore, for the academic year 2022/2023 it will be possible to do the exam with this program only until FEBRUARY 2024 included.
L-Z
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The course will focus on the main concepts, objectives and methods of analysis in Urban and Regional Geography. More specifically, attention will be given to the different types of regions that will be analyzed from a multi-scale perspective (anthropic, cultural, economic, political, urban regions, etc.). The various aspects of geography (human, population, historical, economic, political, urban, etc.) will also be investigated in order to provide a systemic vision of the complexity of the planet through useful tools for the interdisciplinary dialogue with the linguistic, cultural, economic and social dimensions.
Class attendance is recommended for a better preparation of the exam. For students unable to attend, a specific program is provided. For a better understanding, the use of appropriate tools (latest editions of the atlases of Touring Club Italiano, De Agostini, Zanichelli, Le Monde Diplomatique, De Agostini Atlas Calendar, etc.) is recommended to all students.
Students - both attending and non-attending - are supposed to study:
- for 3 CFUs, only Teaching Unit A;
- for 6 CFUs, two Teaching Units (Teaching Unit A and another Teaching Unit of their choice between B and C);
- for 9 CFUs, the three Teaching Unit A, B and C.
Class attendance is recommended for a better preparation of the exam. For students unable to attend, a specific program is provided. For a better understanding, the use of appropriate tools (latest editions of the atlases of Touring Club Italiano, De Agostini, Zanichelli, Le Monde Diplomatique, De Agostini Atlas Calendar, etc.) is recommended to all students.
Students - both attending and non-attending - are supposed to study:
- for 3 CFUs, only Teaching Unit A;
- for 6 CFUs, two Teaching Units (Teaching Unit A and another Teaching Unit of their choice between B and C);
- for 9 CFUs, the three Teaching Unit A, B and C.
Prerequisites for admission
Being able to understand the variety of geographical contemporary regions with reference to their evolutions and transformations both in a diachronic (through the comparison among different historical periods) and in a synchronic dimension. Being able to observe, describe and analyse phenomena belonging to natural and anthropic reality in a systemic, heterogeneous and complex way.
Teaching methods
Face to face lectures useful to privilege the logical-conceptual language; participatory lessons supported by images, pictures, cartographic and paracartographic representations to strengthen the learning of the visual and iconographic language; interactive lessons held by the Professor and by experts on specific topics. Didactic excursions aimed at reading the landscape and the territory may be organized.
Teaching Resources
Materials for ATTENDING STUDENTS
Teaching Unit A
- Lessons and materials uploaded on the digital teaching platform Ariel.
- Frémont A., Vi piace la geografia?, edizione italiana a cura di Dino Gavinelli, Carocci, Roma, 2007 (all chapters except for chapter 18 and 19).
Teaching unit B
- Lessons and materials uploaded on the digital teaching platform Ariel.
- Gavinelli D., Goldstein Bolocan M. (a cura di). Regioni e regionalizzazioni nello spazio-mondo in divenire, Milano, Pearson, 2022.
Teaching Unit C
- Lessons and materials uploaded on the digital teaching platform Ariel.
- One text from the following list:
Amin A., Thrift N., Vedere come una città, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2020.
Gavinelli D., Zanolin G. (a cura di), La città "messa a fuoco". Territorio, società e lavoro nella fotografia della città metropolitana di Milano, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2016.
Molinari P. (a cura di), Periferie europee. Istituzioni sociali, politiche, luoghi. II tomo, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2021.
Moretti E., La nuova geografia del lavoro, Milano, Mondadori, 2017.
Tononi M., Pietta A., Città in transizione: un'analisi geografica delle relazioni socio-ecologiche a scala urbana, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2021.
Materials for NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS
Teaching Unit A
- One text from the following list:
Bjelland M.D., Montello D.R. e Getis A. Geografia umana, Milano, McGraw-Hill Education, 2020.
Greiner A.L., Dematteis G., Lanza C., Geografia umana. Un approccio visuale (terza edizione a cura di Vanolo A.), Milano,/Torino, UTET Università, 2019.
Teaching Unit B
- Gavinelli D., Goldstein Bolocan M. (a cura di), Regioni e regionalizzazioni nello spazio-mondo in divenire, Milano, Pearson, 2022.
- One text from the following list:
Cannizzaro S., Corinto G.L., Porto C.M., Il Mediterraneo: dalla frattura regionale al processo d'integrazione, Bologna, Pàtron, 2009.
Corsale A., Geografia delle minoranze tra Baltico e Mar Nero, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2016.
Gamberoni E., Pistocchi F., L'Africa Occidentale. Ritratto di un'Africa che cambia, Bologna, Patron, 2013.
Gavinelli D., Dal Borgo A.G. (a cura di), Asia-Pacifico: regione emergente. Luoghi, culture, relazioni, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2014.
Morazzoni M., Geopolitica dell'America Centrale. Le inquietudini, l'eredità, il futuro, Bologna, Archetipo, 2010.
Vaghi M. (a cura di), I mondi dell'Asia, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2016.
Zanolin G., Geografia dei Parchi Nazionali Italiani, Carocci, Roma, 2022.
Teaching Unit C
- One text from the following list:
Dematteis G., Lanza C., Le città del mondo. Una geografia urbana, Torino, UTET, 2014.
Rossi U., Vanolo A., Geografia politica urbana, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010.
Teaching Unit A
- Lessons and materials uploaded on the digital teaching platform Ariel.
- Frémont A., Vi piace la geografia?, edizione italiana a cura di Dino Gavinelli, Carocci, Roma, 2007 (all chapters except for chapter 18 and 19).
Teaching unit B
- Lessons and materials uploaded on the digital teaching platform Ariel.
- Gavinelli D., Goldstein Bolocan M. (a cura di). Regioni e regionalizzazioni nello spazio-mondo in divenire, Milano, Pearson, 2022.
Teaching Unit C
- Lessons and materials uploaded on the digital teaching platform Ariel.
- One text from the following list:
Amin A., Thrift N., Vedere come una città, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2020.
Gavinelli D., Zanolin G. (a cura di), La città "messa a fuoco". Territorio, società e lavoro nella fotografia della città metropolitana di Milano, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2016.
Molinari P. (a cura di), Periferie europee. Istituzioni sociali, politiche, luoghi. II tomo, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2021.
Moretti E., La nuova geografia del lavoro, Milano, Mondadori, 2017.
Tononi M., Pietta A., Città in transizione: un'analisi geografica delle relazioni socio-ecologiche a scala urbana, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2021.
Materials for NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS
Teaching Unit A
- One text from the following list:
Bjelland M.D., Montello D.R. e Getis A. Geografia umana, Milano, McGraw-Hill Education, 2020.
Greiner A.L., Dematteis G., Lanza C., Geografia umana. Un approccio visuale (terza edizione a cura di Vanolo A.), Milano,/Torino, UTET Università, 2019.
Teaching Unit B
- Gavinelli D., Goldstein Bolocan M. (a cura di), Regioni e regionalizzazioni nello spazio-mondo in divenire, Milano, Pearson, 2022.
- One text from the following list:
Cannizzaro S., Corinto G.L., Porto C.M., Il Mediterraneo: dalla frattura regionale al processo d'integrazione, Bologna, Pàtron, 2009.
Corsale A., Geografia delle minoranze tra Baltico e Mar Nero, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2016.
Gamberoni E., Pistocchi F., L'Africa Occidentale. Ritratto di un'Africa che cambia, Bologna, Patron, 2013.
Gavinelli D., Dal Borgo A.G. (a cura di), Asia-Pacifico: regione emergente. Luoghi, culture, relazioni, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2014.
Morazzoni M., Geopolitica dell'America Centrale. Le inquietudini, l'eredità, il futuro, Bologna, Archetipo, 2010.
Vaghi M. (a cura di), I mondi dell'Asia, Milano-Udine, Mimesis, 2016.
Zanolin G., Geografia dei Parchi Nazionali Italiani, Carocci, Roma, 2022.
Teaching Unit C
- One text from the following list:
Dematteis G., Lanza C., Le città del mondo. Una geografia urbana, Torino, UTET, 2014.
Rossi U., Vanolo A., Geografia politica urbana, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The final exam for all students consists in an oral discussion on the topics described in the program and aims at checking the knowledge of the key themes of Urban and Regional Geography. In particular, students will have to demonstrate they have achieved skills that are useful to read the territorial processes of contemporaneity operating at different scales. Students must also be able to use the appropriate disciplinary lexicon.
The program is valid for one academic year, starting from the end of the lessons. Therefore, for the academic year 2022/2023 it will be possible to do the exam with this program only until FEBRUARY 2024 included.
The program is valid for one academic year, starting from the end of the lessons. Therefore, for the academic year 2022/2023 it will be possible to do the exam with this program only until FEBRUARY 2024 included.
M-GGR/01 - GEOGRAPHY - University credits: 9
Lessons: 60 hours
Professors:
Ferrario Carla, Morazzoni Monica
Educational website(s)
Professor(s)
Reception:
Office hours are held every Tuesday, on a weekly basis, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. It is not necessary to book.
Office hours will be held in presence in the office 1044 in Sesto San Giovanni or, for specific reasons, via skype. The skype address during reception hours is: dinogavinelli.