PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE E URBANISTICA 2
Module URBANISTICA

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: Francesco MARTINICO

Expected Learning Outcomes

The course will develop the competences already acquired in the previous courses aimed at giving to student theoretical and practical tools for interpreting the urban and territorial phenomena and to guide them to comprehend and practice urban design through an approach to regional and city design. 

Course Structure

The course includes lectures field trips and seminars

 

If it will be necessary to change the teaching to mixed or remote  mode, some changes could be introduced, in line with the program  planned and outlined in the syllabus.


"As a guarantee of equal opportunities and in compliance with current laws, interested students can ask for a personal interview in order to plan any compensatory and/or dispensatory measures, based on their specific needs and on teaching objectives of the discipline. 

It is also possible to ask the departmental contacts of CInAP (Center for Active and Participatory Integration - Services for Disabilities and/or DSAs), in the persons of professor Anna De Angelis."

Required Prerequisites

None

Attendance of Lessons

The course attendance is highly recommended, considering that the project is a mandatory assignment.   

Detailed Course Content

Students will acquire a basic method for understanding that the interpretation of urban complexity is a design tool, since the city structure (public reals infrastructure and services) stems from a multiplicity of collective actions, including conflictual ones, that evolve in time.

The course includes lectures on the theoretical foundations of the urban project with reference to international literature and relevant case studies. In the second part, students will be required to produce a project that includes the analysis of portion of a city and the production of a design scenario that propose a solution of the main spatial problems emerged during the analysis

Textbook Information

Bibliography

1 -K. LYNCH, Progettare la città. Milano, Etaslibri, 1990

2 - F. MARTINICO, Il Territorio dell’ industria, Gangemi Roma, 2001.

3 - F. C. NIGRELLI, Percorsi del Progetto urbano in Francia e in Italia 1960-1997, Officina Edizioni, Roma, 1999, cap. 4, pp. 212 -241, conclusioni pp. 271 - 281

4- B. SECCHI, Prima lezione di Urbanistica, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2000

5 - B. SECCHI, La città dei ricchi e la città dei poveri, Laterza Editore, Bari, 2013

Lecture notes will be provided by the instructor

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1Urban phenomena1-4
2Tools for urban regeneration1
3Historical Centers and Peripheries5-6
4Urban Services 6
5Small towns and inner areas 6
6Town planning legislation6
7Landscape degradation and industrial estates 2-6
8Sustainable landscape design 3
9Energy and the City 6
10Cities  and transports 6
11Urban design in Europe3
12Public realm and new urban populations5-6

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The final examination is an oral test on the course content and a presentation of the project.  

If it is required, the final exam could take place from remote.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

Examples of tests

-       How it is possible to operate to improve marginal areas within historical centers ?

-       Describe an example of regeneration of a defunct industrial estate.