Urban Studies
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
Urban planning approaches are the result of the evolution of an institutional cultures and disciplinary knowledge that together contribute to determining the styles and contents of the urban transformations. Nowadays, new using demands and settlement dynamics are emerging. The course presents approaches (traditional or innovative) and issues related to the urban planning. The training objective is the construction of a framework for recognizing the forms and approaches of urban planning.
Expected learning outcomes
It is expected that students will gain awareness of the urban design project in relation to emerging issues about the contemporary city. In particular the students will learn:
- to conceptualize and interpret the urban dynamics and to understand its links with the urban project forms;
- to understand, interpret and declare the new social questions of the urban transformations;
- competence to interact with people involved in urban and territorial transformation
processes (decision makers, public administrators, private operators, citizens, etc.).
- to conceptualize and interpret the urban dynamics and to understand its links with the urban project forms;
- to understand, interpret and declare the new social questions of the urban transformations;
- competence to interact with people involved in urban and territorial transformation
processes (decision makers, public administrators, private operators, citizens, etc.).
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The course program is divided into three parts. The first concerns definitions and interpretations related to the different articulations of tools and fields of inquiry in urbanism: urban and regional planning, urban design and spatial planning. The second covers the evolution in history of urban issues, city models and interpretative and intervention approaches (between the 20th and 21st centuries). The third is intended to investigate topical issues and projects related to the relationship between urban and spatial design and planning. These include some in-depth today topics such as: sustainable mobility, particularly urban cycling and pedestrianism; the design of new public spaces; adaptive urban planning and design; urban and peri-urban agriculture; play space in the city; universal design.
Prerequisites for admission
Advance Italian Language, Basic English Language
Teaching methods
): In order to achieve learning goals, the course is organized into theoretical-methodological and historical-critical lectures, case studies demonstration, seminars with experts.
Teaching Resources
L. Benevolo, Le origini dell'urbanistica moderna, Laterza, Bari, 1991 (1963); B. Secchi, La città del XX secolo, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2005. Un volume a scelta fra i seguenti: E, Robert Park, Ernest W. Burgess, Roderick D. Mckenzie, La città, Ed. Comunità, Roma, 1999; P. Gabellini, Fare urbanistica, Carocci, Roma, 2009.
Lecture presentations in pdf format and related bibliography are available for topical issues covered in the course.
Lecture presentations in pdf format and related bibliography are available for topical issues covered in the course.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The final examination is oral. Related to the topics developed in the lectures and seminars. (Mode A) It is possible for the preparation of the oral examination to refer to the texts indicated in the general bibliography or by agreeing with the lecturer on a specific in-depth thematic study and related bibliography. (Mode B) alternatively, students, may submit a verb-visual paper, individually or in groups, which will be the subject of discussion during the oral examination, the subject of which must be agreed with the lecturer. The assessment is based on the following criteria: for Mode A, in-depth knowledge of the reference texts, the ability to critically return the relationship between urban and territorial issues in a historical perspective and the different disciplinary approaches and tools related to them; for Mode B, in addition to the construction of relevant bibliographies related to themes and case studies, the capacity to organized, through the preparation of a verbo-visual paper, paths of investigation and appropriate argumentation from a disciplinary point of view and with a technically relevant vocabulary.
ICAR/21 - URBAN DESIGN AND LANDSCAPE - University credits: 6
Lessons: 40 hours
Professor:
Baiocco Ruben
Educational website(s)
Professor(s)
Reception:
2 pm-5pm
BAC dep., Geography, Via Festa del Perdono 7 ("legnaia courtyard")