Urban and Spatial Plannig 2

A.Y. 2025/2026
12
Max ECTS
96
Overall hours
SSD
ICAR/21
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
Module 1: Urban and regional planning
The aim of the course is to provide students with theoretical knowledge and practical skills related to urban and spatial planning tools. In particular, the students will acquire the ability to relate current spatial government planning tools to emerging sector planning tools, policies and action plans, related to sustainable mobility, mitigation (carbon neutral/negative, climate neutral), adaptive urban planning and design, environmental regeneration of soil and air, neighbourhood services and services for social and economic integration, etc. Knowledge of urban planning and design tools is complemented by the exploration of analysis tools and related techniques for the description and representation of urban and spatial processes applied to a case study.

Module 2: Laboratorio di progettazione urbana e territoriale
The objective of the course is to provide students with the opportunity to gain professional experience in urban and territorial design in a context of which it is possible to have direct knowledge, through the physical exploration of places, the availability of data for the construction of cognitive frameworks and interaction with stakeholders (representatives of institutions, sector experts, economic operators, developers, associations and inhabitants).
The workshop experience pursues a twofold objective: a) to enable the student to perfect the in-depth knowledge of a specific urban and territorial design technique, acquired in module 1, in an applied form; b) to be able to manage a pro-active confrontation in team work with the various professional competences and skills necessary for the packaging of an urban and territorial regeneration project: this through the specificity of the analyses, the clarity of the relevant technical narratives and the effectiveness of the graphic and parametric representations.
Expected learning outcomes
Module 1:
The acquisition of expert knowledge of a broad spectrum of urban and spatial planning tools in use and of emerging techniques related to the sustainability of urbanisation processes, adaptation to the effects of climate change, environmental and socio-economic performance.
The acquisition of tools for the analysis and representation of urban and territorial spatial processes.

Module 2:
To develop the ability to deal with a realistic urban and spatial planning context. To become expert(s) in the practice of some specific techniques of urban and territorial planning and design. To implement in a professionalising key the ability to interact with stakeholders in order to acquire and integrate different (expert and experience) knowledge of the project context. To acquire and experiment with tools and methods of project packaging and communication. Know how to work in a team.
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
Prerequisites for admission
Advance Italian Language: having taken the exam of the Urban Planning and Design I course.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The learning assessment takes place through three exercises:
a) The exercise involves the drafting of a text, accompanied by a bibliography, of at least 5000 characters, to be carried out individually on topics related to the 'project' and the tools of urban and territorial planning, illustrated in the first part of the course.
b) The exercise concerns methods and techniques of graphic representation of the first project exploration
c) The third and final exercise concerns the packaging of the project proposal and consists of: TAVOLA A1 project poster; a PPT (or similar) for a short public presentation of the project; a project report.
Exercise a) is carried out individually; exercises b) and c), individually or in groups.
Each exercise will be evaluated by the commission and to take the exam it is necessary to carry out all three exercises.
Module 1: Urban and regional planning
Course syllabus
The aim of the course is to provide students with theoretical knowledge and practical skills related to the tools of urban and territorial planning. In particular, it will be about acquiring the ability to relate the current planning tools of territorial government with emerging sector tools, including policies and action plans, relating to sustainable mobility, mitigation (carbon neutral/negative, climate neutral), adaptive urban planning and design, environmental regeneration of soil and air, proximity and territorial services (ecosystemic), etc. The knowledge of the tools of urban planning and design is accompanied by the exploration of the analysis tools and related techniques for describing and representing urban and territorial spatial processes (the different forms of urbanization and environmental structures) applied to a case study.
Teaching methods
Teaching methods consist of lectures, including seminars with specialists, divided into three disciplinary but interrelated sets.
The first set concerns norms, rules and design.
The second set concerns design themes and tools (case studies).
The third set concerns analysis and design techniques.
Teaching Resources
The reference materials are composed of:
1) Presentations of the ex-cathedra lessons
2) Bibliographic materials relating to the standards
3) Bibliographic materials relating to the case studies
4) Bibliographic materials relating to the tools and techniques
Modulo 2: Laboratorio di progettazione urbana e territoriale
Course syllabus
Module 2 is configured as a laboratory of urban and territorial planning and design. The aim of the teaching is to provide students with the opportunity to have a professionalizing experience relating to the process that leads to a project proposal in a concrete and real reference context, interacting with different stakeholders: a context of which it is possible to have direct knowledge, through the physical exploration of the places, the availability of data for the construction of cognitive frameworks and the interaction with stakeholders (representatives of institutions, industry experts, economic operators, developers, associations and inhabitants). The laboratory experience pursues the dual objective: a) to allow for the improvement of the in-depth knowledge of a specific urban and territorial design technique, acquired in module 1, in the applied form; b) to be able to manage a pro-active comparison in team work with the different skills and professional abilities necessary for the packaging of an urban and territorial regeneration project: this through the specificity of the analyses, the clarity of the relevant technical narratives and the effectiveness of the graphic and parametric representations.
Teaching methods
The teaching methods are divided into:
1) Interactions aimed at perfecting the methods of graphic restitution of the analyses and project proposals.
2) Reviews with the various members of the teaching staff for the development of the project proposals to be submitted to the stakeholders.
3) Co-organization and co-management (together with the teachers) of a Charrette - participatory design laboratory.
4) Reviews with the various members of the teaching staff for the final packaging of the project proposals developed in the classroom and through interaction with the stakeholders.
Teaching Resources
1) Presentations of ex-cathedra lessons
2) Bibliographic materials relating to the rules
3) Bibliographic materials relating to the case studies
4) Bibliographic materials relating to the tools and techniques
5) Shared materials resulting from field explorations
Modules or teaching units
Module 1: Urban and regional planning
ICAR/21 - URBAN DESIGN AND LANDSCAPE - University credits: 6
Lessons: 48 hours
Professor: Baiocco Ruben

Modulo 2: Laboratorio di progettazione urbana e territoriale
ICAR/21 - URBAN DESIGN AND LANDSCAPE - University credits: 6
Lessons: 48 hours
Professor: Baiocco Ruben

Professor(s)
Reception:
2 pm-5pm
BAC dep., Geography, Via Festa del Perdono 7 ("legnaia courtyard")