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Course Objectives
There are two general references: the qualifying training objectives and the specific training objectives. The former are made explicit through a non-dogmatic approach to planning: it is based on the acquisition of a government orientation that refers to a vast set of practices and languages, never neutral with respect to values and choices. The skills concern the critical reading of places, the interpretations of physical, environmental and social problems and the planning of transformative actions, through the understanding of strategic objectives and explicit and implicit narratives of policies, and the ability to decipher tools and regulatory frameworks for territorial government actions. Attention is paid to the problems and models with which these issues are addressed, both in literature and in practice. The latter are made explicit through the interdisciplinary interpretation of urban and territorial spaces: teaching is aimed at building in students the ability to deal with a complex notion of space, understood as a problematic junction between physical and social characteristics, uses and powers, and in a multiscalar logic. The specific objectives of this course are to give the student the opportunity to conclude his three-year course with a critical analysis of the policies and practices through which public administrations guide the processes of urban and territorial transformation. In short, the course aims to develop the basic cultural skills so that the "territorial technician" is able to collaborate with different specialists and that allows him to understand their languages and to operate in multidisciplinary groups.
Course Prerequisites
A survey of the foundations of traditional urban planning theories and techniques and the development of methodologies aimed at studying the modifications that affect urban systems, changes in society and relationships with the city and contemporary territories will be preparatory. Territorial transformations, regional and sectoral urban planning legislation, new urban programs and innovations related to the development of operational and implementation methods will be assessed.
Teaching Methods
The course will be developed according to theoretical lessons involving students in the understanding of the urban and territorial phenomena offered to them. There will be Exercises hours of experimentation/revision through experimental application on a significant case study in order to understand its dynamics and propose themselves through descriptions, interpretation, food for thought, design propositions and the creation of new products and services.
Assessment Methods
Specify the methods and phases of verification (intermediate and final) of learning The student will carry out the independent work guided by a capacity for self-criticism that will lead him to assume a virtuous and profitable behavior. In exchange for the frontal hours, the student will develop the hours of study and in-depth analysis on case studies and best practices in order to deal with the work that contextualizes in the territory he has chosen. He will develop the necessary maturity to follow up on his own aptitudes and predispositions. There will be an intermediate verification on the program on frontal lessons and exercises. The evaluation will take place through a final exam in which the report prepared by the student will also be evaluated as well as the topics covered during the course.
Texts
Amendola G. (2018). Le retoriche della città. Tra politica, marketing e diritti. Edizioni Dedalo.
Gasparrini C., L’attualità dell’urbanistica, Etaslibri, Milano, 1994;
Passarelli Domenico, Le sfide dell’urbanistica oggi, INU ed. Roma 2022.
Ricci L. (2017). Governare la città contemporanea. Riforme e strumenti per la rigenerazione urbana. In M. Talia. Un futuro affidabile per la città. Apertura al cambiamento e rischio accettabile nel governo del territorio. Roma-Milano: Planum Publisher.
Secchi B. (2013). La città dei ricchi e la città dei poveri. Bari: Laterza.
Other teaching materials: It is recommended to read the scientific journals of the National Institute of Urban Planning: Urbanistica, Urbanistica Informazioni, Territorio della ricerca su territori e ambiente. Other references and teaching materials will be provided during the course.
Contents
The Course aims to provide students with the cognitive and operational tools for the theoretical and empirical exploration of the paradigm of territorial complexity, which has long been considered one of the main references in the scientific debate and in the operational practice of the urban planning discipline. The theoretical part of the course is accompanied by an applicative experimentation that takes shape with the development of graphic elaborations conceived in the meta-design dimension of urban planning. Seminar activities will be proposed that will allow to delve into the merits of the conceptual assumptions, evolutionary aspects and practical approaches that characterize the processes attributable to this thematic framework, highlighting its potential and limits, focusing on its interpretation in the context of the legislation and discipline of territorial government, through the analysis of case studies and experiences of national and international planning. The training objectives consist in the construction of a conscious framework of knowledge also in the field of scientific research and will be preparatory to the critical analysis of selected contexts in which to recognize characteristics of fragility and values from a spatial, functional and formal point of view, on the basis of which to identify alternative strategies and scenarios, in the perspective of a responsible planning process for the city and the contemporary urban territory.
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The topics will focus on the crisis phenomena that characterize the contemporary city and the role it has assumed in the context of international and national policies. The theoretical insights focus on the role of urban planning and its evolutionary process in relation to the needs dictated by the changing contextual conditions, which have influenced its principles and operational practice. The development potential of urban contexts no longer derives from the potential dictated by the regulation of expansive dynamics, but from an all-encompassing care aimed at all the components that contribute to defining its complexity and that constitute the existing city. The focus is on the condition of necessity that concerns the transformation of the built fabric, according to a logic of recovery and redevelopment of areas of the territory, whose uses and functions are not adequate to today's needs. In the national context, these assumptions converge with the modification of Title V of the Constitution, which establishes the transition from Urban Planning to Land Government. This substantial transition recognizes in all respects the evolution of the discipline, which from a spatial and regulatory practice, translates into a complex matter oriented to the care of the territory, not limited to the spatial dimension but extending to the functional one, integrating the management of territorial and social phenomena in a systemic perspective. In this sense, we have gradually witnessed the imposition of a new paradigm, that of urban regeneration, whose procedural connotation is well suited to the management of the rapid changes of the contemporary city. However, in Italy there is still a lack of specific legislation at national level, despite the topic being at the center of the debate at scientific and political level. The absence of a national regulatory framework, consequent to the attribution to the Regions of the legislative power in the matter of Territorial Government, has favored the progressive formulation of multiple regional laws that have interpreted the provisions in relation to the needs of their territories, with a particular sensitivity towards the various current issues that have characterized the urban planning debate. Experimentation is proposed on an urban reality chosen by the student on which the urban settlement will be analyzed in relation to environmental characteristics and sustainable mobility. All in a design dimension through which to imagine alternative scenarios with respect to the existing city.