Overview
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Syllabus
Course Objectives
In order to achieve the expected results of the course programme and the proposed experimentation, the didactic offer articulated in the different activities pursues the following objectives.
The qualifying training objective of the Laboratory, and of the Courses that constitute it, is the acquisition of knowledge, skills and techniques suitable for proposing innovative ways of planning and designing the complex transformations of the city and the territory.
The specific training objectives of the Laboratory and its constituent Courses are aimed at enabling students to acquire
- the skills necessary to know and control the major themes at the centre of the debate on the city and urban design, such as spatial and social inequalities; demographic ageing; welfare space; resilience; climate adaptation; mobility and accessibility; urban recomposition and regeneration; the valorisation of cultural and natural heritage
- the skills necessary to experiment the elaboration of a project for a new form of urban plan aimed at the management of the complex structural and conjunctural transformations underway from the point of view of climate, energy, social and regenerative change, according to an ecosystemic vision.
Course Prerequisites
In order to take the Urban Planning Laboratory II examination, the student must have passed Corso integrato di Urbanistica, Fondamenti di progettazione territoriale ed urbana, Progettazione urbanistica per territori e città tra sostenibilità e innovazione.
(first year) examination of the Urban Planning Laboratory I (second year).
In particular, the student must possess adequate basic knowledge of
- the main concepts and theoretical themes relating to the role of town and country planning
- the history of the modern town planning discipline and the main stages in the process of construction and formation of the disciplinary corpus of town planning
- the ability to produce adequate cartographic representation of urban and territorial phenomena;
- knowledge of the fundamental principles of urban planning techniques;
- the essential elements of town planning legislation at national and regional level.
Teaching Methods
1_ COURSE STRUCTURE AND TEACHING
The course is structured in lectures, seminaries, practical classes, collective revisions and debates in class.
The attendance is compulsory (for 70% of lessons), students have to enroll within the second lesson week; attendances will be verified during every class.
Lectures (20 hours/semester in the classroom )
Lectures and seminars will address the multiple approaches aimed at reading and designing from the territory and urban space and provide the "tools" useful for defining their dimensions, materials, uses, relationships. The intent will be to outline a core of specificity and recognizability for a discipline such as urban planning, which has always been oriented toward contamination and dialogue with other knowledge and disciplinary bodies. The lectures will cover the tools, rules and norms that characterize and define contemporary urbanism.
Contents and comparisons between urban and implementation plans, between national and regional legislation and current innovations (through the reading of best practices), complex strategies and programs, and the main evaluation techniques will be reviewed.
Exercises and evaluation of progress (15 hours/semester in the classroom)
The Course includes collective exercise activities in which the results of the different work phases will be verified. In particular:
- At the end of October there will be an exercise/verification activity on the definition of the 'Work Program and the identified strategic project themes'
- At the end of the first semester, an exercise/verification activity will be held on the reading of settlement systems and non-urbanized territory, the identification of their internal and supra-local relations, the identification of relevant characters and spatial systems in their criticality and quality.
Practical activities (25 hours/semester in the classroom)
Practical and experimental activity "reading of case studies"
The exercise on reading and comparing case studies related to PSC aims to accompany working groups in analyzing and comparing good practices based on sound methodologies and critically identifying aspects of transferability to their project path. The exercise consists of a first part dedicated to the identification of the cases, the construction of the method of comparison and a second part dedicated to the identification of the aspects of transferability from the selected cases to the current design path.
Practical and experimental activity "Reggio: a vision for 2050".
The project experimentation represents the connecting element between the theoretical part and the workshop and has as its founding objective the construction and application/verification of a methodology for the sustainable planning/regeneration of the city and the territory.
The practical activity will be structured in three phases
- construction of the diagnostic framework: reading of the settlement, mobility and non-urbanised territory systems, identification of their internal and supra-local relations, identification of relevant features and spatial systems in their criticality and quality. This phase will be concluded in the first semester
- construction of the reference and target scenario: prefiguration of the strategic and structural design of the territory's possible future transformations. This phase will end in mid-April
- development of transformation projects will be the subject of the last part of the Workshop, which will also take the form of a final intensive workshop. This phase will end in mid-May
The papers to be submitted for the final examination by each group will be those submitted to the deliverables envisaged for each work phase, systematised, reorganised and corrected according to the indications provided by the lecturer during the various moments of discussion (revisions and workshops). This phase will conclude the workshop
The scale of the individual representations will have to respond to the level of observation/project implemented each time, and follow the indications provided by the lecturer.
Schedule of training activities
- Lectures and seminars will be held throughout the duration of the Workshop.
- Exercises and tests will be held in the last week of October and at the end of the first semester;
- The planned practical activities will be conducted the first in the first semester and the second throughout the year, according to the following timetable
- Construction of the Diagnostic Framework to be delivered at the end of the first semester
- Construction of the reference and target scenario to be finalised and handed in mid-April
- Transformation project to be finalised and handed in mid-May.
2_ AUTONOMOUS LEARNING OF THE STUDENT
In order to sit the examination, students are required: to study and critically review the content of the lectures and seminars; to carry out the assigned exercises and practical activities. The number of individual study hours to carry out these activities is estimated at 90 hours, distributed as follows:
- In-depth study/study on bibliography (theoretical part): 30 hours
- Test preparation (experimentation): 40 hours
- Examination preparation: 20 hours
Assessment Methods
The audits, intermediate and final, envisage two stages of progress and related exercises/deliveries:
1_ The first intermediate verification is fixed at the end of October and will concern the first readings of the experimental context and the methodological articulation of the work;
2_ The second one is scheduled at the end of the first semester and will concern the delivery of the Diagnostic Framework
3_ Final Review/ WORKSHOP
All examinations will be carried out using the most suitable presentation methods agreed and defined with the lecturer (reports, tables, power-point, etc.)
The examinations will be conducted as follows
- Colloquium on the theoretical topics covered during the lectures;
- Presentation and discussion of the papers produced during the laboratory activities.
In order to sit the final exam of the Urban Planning Laboratory 2 it will be necessary to have attended the lectures of each of the two courses that compose it, to have participated in the Laboratory's collective activities (lectures, seminars, workshops, reviews), and to have carried out the project experimentation on the year's theme.
The examination will consist of an oral interview on the topics dealt with in the lectures and on the illustration and discussion of the graphic works relating to the urban planning project of the study area on the basis of the seminar activity carried out during the activities of the Laboratory within the courses of which it is composed.
Texts
Reference bibliography (max 5 testi)
Gaeta L, Janin Rivolin U. et Mazza L., Governo del territorio e pianificazione spaziale, Terza edizione- Città Studi Edizioni, Milano, 2021
Gabellini P., Le mutazioni dell’urbanistica. Principi, tecniche, competenze, Carocci Editore, 2018
Gasparrini C. e Terracciano A., Dross City. Metabolismo urbano e progetto di riciclo dei drosscape, List Milano, 2017.
Gehl J. (2010), Cities for people, Island Press, Washington
Mezzi P., Pelizzaro P., La città resiliente, Strategie e azioni di resilienza urbana in Italia e nel mondo, Altreconomia, 2017
Numeri della Rivista Urbanistica
Legislation
Legislazione urbanistica nazionale
Legge n. 19 del 16 aprile 2002 e s.m.i.
Regione Calabria, Linee Guida della Pianificazione Regionale, 2008
Websites and other teaching materials
Verranno forniti agli studenti i materiali delle lezioni frontali.
I principali siti consigliati per la rassegna di esperienze innovative sono:
https://www.pgt.comune.milano.it/
http://dru.iperbole.bologna.it/piano-urbanistico-generale
https://www.comune.re.it/argomenti/cura-della-citta/progetti/pug
https://www.comune.modena.it/servizi/catasto-urbanistica-edilizia/piano-urbanistico-generale
https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/superilles/en/
Contents
1_DESCRIPTION
The Policies, strategies, and tools for resilient, inclusive, and digital city planning course and Urban design for the resilient, inclusive and digital city course make up the Laboratory of Urban Planning 2, which is taught in the fourth year of the degree and contributes to the training of the European architect in line with the qualifying educational objectives of the LM4 class. These require an adequate knowledge of town planning, planning and techniques applied in the processes of territorial government. The Laboratory courses will provide students with advanced knowledge in the reading and evaluation of territorial and urban settlements from the perspective of environmental, social and economic sustainability and resilience.
The qualifying educational objective of the Laboratory (and of the courses that constitute it) - in line with the objectives of the degree programme - is the acquisition of knowledge, skills and techniques useful for proposing innovative ways of planning and designing the complex transformations of the city and the territory.
The Laboratory aims to introduce and explore the major themes at the heart of the debate on the city and urban design, such as spatial and social inequalities; demographic ageing; resilience; the welfare space; mobility and accessibility; urban recomposition and regeneration; the development of cultural and natural heritage.territorial and urban in the perspective of environmental, social and economic sustainability and resilience.
2_COURSE PROGRAMME
The Urban Planning Workshop 2 consists of the Urban Planning and Urban Design courses. The programmes of the two courses are closely coordinated and are divided into three Modules, two of which (Module A and Module B) are covered in the Urban Planning course, and one, Module C, in the Urban Design course. The following programme relates to both courses.
Module A: Urban planning and the new challenges induced by climate change
Module B: Urban planning at the municipal scale: the PSC and area projects
Module C: Innovative intervention programmes for the city
Each module includes a theoretical study part and an exercise part in which the student will be asked to develop a project in a chosen territorial context.
In Module A) the themes of wide area planning will be developed with particular reference to urban instrumentation. In this module the fundamental concepts of the territorial project will be explored in depth and some interpretative readings of the territorial scale will be constructed preparatory to the planning exercise. In particular, we will focus on the methods of territorial analysis and diagnostics, with regard to regulatory, environmental, economic-social, functional and relational aspects. A section of the lectures will be devoted to the topics of climate adaptation in the urban environment and the city of proximity, both through lectures and through exercises and readings from planning experiences that have dealt significantly with these issues.
In Module B), the theme of town planning on a municipal scale will be developed, with particular reference to the Municipal Structural Plan; this module will provide students with the fundamental concepts of strategic and structural town planning and the main methodological and legislative knowledge necessary for the formulation of a plan on a municipal scale.
In Module C), the theme of programmes (European, national and regional) financing innovative actions in urban areas will be developed. In this module, each student will study a recently developed local-scale plan experience (PUC of municipalities in the Emilia Romagna region; TMP of the Lombardy region; etc.).
In the experimental design phase, students will carry out a design experience aimed at comparing strategic and programmatic visions with design visions capable of affecting the conformative quality of places. The proposed experience will be an opportunity to experiment a design approach that can contribute to the resolution of one or more challenges of the contemporary city, in relation to the objectives of Agenda 2030.
The practical experimentation entitled "Reggio: a vision for 2050" envisages the construction of a design methodology for the drafting of a target scenario for a PSC for the city of Reggio Calabria. In order to draw up the target scenario, students will have to construct a working methodology consistent with the requirements of the regional law of Calabria (L.r. 19/02).
The experimentation activity will be based on
- interpretative analyses of the characteristics, hierarchies and relations of the settlement, infrastructural and landscape-environmental systems of the urban context;
- analytical readings of the main demographic of the urban context;
- interviews with citizens and privileged actors;
- target scenario and vision for Reggio 2050
3_EXPECTED RESULTS
At the conclusion of the course, the student should have acquired the methodological knowledge, of use of rules, norms and tools useful for understanding the contemporary city, the construction of urban design and the definition of hypotheses for its implementation.
Specifically, the expected results using the Dublin descriptors are:
- Acquisition of knowledge and ability to understand and interpret spatial and urban systems to identify their structures, hierarchies and relationships;
- Acquisition of knowledge and understanding skills applied to the planning of urban development and parts of the city (rehabilitation of the existing city, environmental and functional redevelopment, rehabilitation of brownfields, etc.);
- Acquisition of independent judgment in dealing with issues of the complexity of the contemporary city and making judgments even on the basis of limited information;
- Acquisition of communication skills in project illustration and acquisition of interpersonal skills to control interlocution with specialist and non-specialist stakeholders;
- Acquisition of those skills of learning and experimentation that allow to continue to confront and with the multiple issues of urban design.