PIANIFICAZIONE TERRITORIALE E URBANISTICA 2Module URBANISTICA
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: Francesco MARTINICOExpected 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.
Required Prerequisites
Attendance of Lessons
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
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Urban phenomena | 1-4 |
| 2 | Tools for urban regeneration | 1 |
| 3 | Historical Centers and Peripheries | 5-6 |
| 4 | Urban Services | 6 |
| 5 | Small towns and inner areas | 6 |
| 6 | Town planning legislation | 6 |
| 7 | Landscape degradation and industrial estates | 2-6 |
| 8 | Sustainable landscape design | 3 |
| 9 | Energy and the City | 6 |
| 10 | Cities and transports | 6 |
| 11 | Urban design in Europe | 3 |
| 12 | Public realm and new urban populations | 5-6 |
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.