Urban Planning and Design Ii

The first teaching module aims to articulate the full understanding of "critical theories of urbanization" and their implementation through the acquisition and application, in a professionalizing key, of the techniques of analysis, description and representation of a real urban-territorial context. The analytical-descriptive part is oriented to the "regeneration" project.
Consider the following definition as a guide to the exercise: "urban-territorial regeneration is always an attempt by no means taken for granted to overlap different dimensions and dynamics of contemporary processes of spatial restructuring; a "mille plateaux" related to rescaling processes, where the question of scale inevitably reproduces multiple spatial figures beyond the dichotomy of geographical fixity-mobility. Therefore, there is a need for a strategy of visualization and representation, between upscaling and downscaling, to share and mobilize interests and needs of critical local groups oriented to identify micro-levers that can be the object of design for social change, for social, cultural, economic and institutional experimentation."
articular attention is paid to fully understanding the use of the scales of representation. Therefore, a major part of the exercise is "data construction," that is, the ability to search for and interpret data useful for descriptions at the different scales of observation. Parallel to the scaling and rescaling exercises, a test-stress exercise of the different and overlapping planning tools in force is conducted for the same context. through the professionalizing exercise of "variant." The techniques of the cartographic "description project"

The second module focuses on the "elaboration" and "packaging" of project proposals, considered as a single phase of work in progress.
The different projects elaborated during the course converge toward a common goal: an urban-territorial regeneration project for a fringe context of Milanese urbanization, between productive city and countryside, to use the atavistic dichotomous scheme to be questioned.
The project therefore has three themes that are intended to be integrated:
1. Issues of urbanization and housing/habitability issues in terms of the performance (economic, social and environmental) of the study area in light of the questions of sustainability and adaptation to climate change risks
2. Issues related to the mobility of people and things; a multidisciplinary approach to urban mobility and transportation planning, of which significant change is underway, the complete understanding of which is necessary and decisive in the creation of sustainable and livable communities, is promoted by expanding theoretical knowledge from different disciplines and cutting-edge technical knowledge in data and spatial analysis.
and assign some urban and peri-urban places strategic functions for partial autonomy and full food inclusion of different urban subjectivities. Places of food production and preparation become urban-territorial centralities at the rank of others. Moreover, contemporary agricultural space can take on different functions: of agroecological regeneration, urban ecosystem service, etc.
Three steps to arrive at the technical relevance of packaging:
1. transposition of the surveys, interpretations of the data, cartographic description, policy catalog, index of the involved planning levels of the study area into the appropriate forms of visual verb narrative of the project.
2. Identification of the appropriate degree of project narrative in relation to the urban planning and design tool (style of graphic representation, project report and ancillary documentation)
3. Editing of the research and design report that collects materials related to the analysis-description and design explorations of the course in the form of the scholarly publication (also valid as the student's portfolio).
Consider also that the objectives of the design elaborations are oriented of the collaboration with the European Affairs Unit of the City of Milan to identify concrete outputs of design and participation in European calls.
Consistent with the European matrix instrumentation, it is necessary to activate consultation and participation activities with the stakeholders of the various project proposals.