URBAN PLANNING STUDIO
(objectives)
Provide theoretical, critical and operational planning aimed towards the construction and transformation of urban space. The course includes lectures and exercises with analysis of urban planning, studies on urban territories and consolidated in transformation and design of parts of these territories.
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Code
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21002005 |
Language
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ITA |
Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Credits
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8
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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ICAR/21
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Contact Hours
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100
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Type of Activity
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Core compulsory activities
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Group: CANALE I
Teacher
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MAGAUDDA STEFANO
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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From 01/10/2024 to 28/02/2025 |
Attendance
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not mandatory
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Group: CANALE II
Teacher
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BAIONI MAURO
(syllabus)
What does urban planning mean, currently, having long since abandoned its centrality in the public discourse and, at the same time, rejecting a reductive if not renouncing attitude? Following the thought of Cristina Bianchetti, "What's interesting is in the middle, right now ... it concerns the actions that we manage to prefigure and carry out, their ability to affect the problems posed by the city, as well as understanding them correctly, observing them from different angles, redefining them, trying, from the beginning, to understand its meaning. What's interesting is the ability of the project to propose a discourse that is up to the situation. Its being an accomplished expression of forms of action and knowledge that can hardly confront what is around them as well as the clamor of a political discourse transformed into a schematic and advertising message. In the ability to be heard in a moment of irreducible weakness of every long-term thought." (Bianchetti C., Urbanistica e sfera pubblica, Donzelli, 2008, p.5)
Within this framework, the course aims to provide students with theoretical and technical tools: - to raise their awareness of the contemporary urban condition and the social, environmental, and economic implications of urban transformations; - to acquire the ability to interpret an urban/territorial context through the appropriate use of description, analysis, and communication tools; - to develop a critical sense of the tendential transformations and the possibilities to affect them through a project anchored on the understanding of the urban context; - consolidate the basic notions on the foundations and the technical contents of urban planning, to use them adequately in the analysis and the project phases.
The laboratory will refer to an area located in Rome. It will be aimed to test the theoretical and technical knowledge necessary for: - explain the main issues to be addressed from a planning point of view, interpreting them in the light of the territorial characteristics, the actors' intentions and roles, the planning rules; - appropriately formulate and argue a project, being aware of its implications.
(reference books)
Bernardo Secchi (2000), Prima lezione di urbanistica, Laterza Maria Chiara Tosi (2017), Di cosa parliamo quando parliamo di urbanistica? Roma Meltemi Martina Pietropaoli e Giovanni Caudo, a cura di, (2021), Riabitare il mondo, Quodlibet Mauro Baioni e Giovanni Caudo, a cura di (2023), Roma grande formato, Quodlibet Sandra Annunziata (2022), Oltre la gentrification. Letture di urbanistica critica tra desiderio e resistenze urbane, Editpress
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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From 01/10/2024 to 28/02/2025 |
Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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Mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Oral exam
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Group: CANALE III
Teacher
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RANZATO MARCO
(syllabus)
The pervasive character of the urban condition has given rise to unprecedented and complex urban forms. Metropolitan city, city-territory, generic city, etc., have been followed by a proliferation of definitions, all attempting to capture the emergence of the urban condition, to mark its boundaries, or at best to deny its existence. A proliferation of images/figurations and counter-images/figurations - Ecumenopolis, No-stop city, Stop-city, etc. - has been produced by the culture of urbanism, all of which radically express the impact of the logics that underpin contemporary urbanisation - and the modern urban condition.
At the same time, the notion of the rural continues to navigate not only in the common sense, but also in the administrative and political spheres. There are still vast areas that are de facto rather isolated or simply do not offer the same conditions for the full realisation of an urban lifestyle, yet they are still subject to the forces of urbanisation and the proliferation of its multiple potential implications. These areas are often stimulated by the relentless global competition to attract investment and tourist flows, if not simply to provide the basic living conditions for the active population to stay in place (a job, basic services, an active social life, etc.). In Italy, a country that has historically been characterised by a strong polycentrism that has led to a sprawl of small centres and hamlets, there has been increasing attention in recent years to areas far from the main urban centres. This has led to the launch of the 2012 National Strategy for Inner Areas (SNAI). Beyond the institutional definitions, the inner area can be considered as the closest to a rural situation.
But where does the city end? Does it end at all, and in what sense? In the broader formal and political concept of city form, the definition - and the concept - of the spatial and political, but also mental limit is at stake (see Aureli and Tattara, 2011).
The course offers the opportunity to develop a critical view of contemporary urbanisation, in particular the urban-rural dynamics and their impact on specific inner areas of the Italian territory.
A longitudinal section of the Italian territory - or transect - is the preferred situation to study, the source of insights and the testing ground of hypotheses. The transect cuts through a given territory, from a specific, identifiable urban condition - and city form - to a rural situation that falls within a specific inner area of Italy, as defined by the SNAI. Along this territorial section it will be possible to read the transition between what is commonly recognised as urban and, on the other side, what is commonly defined as rural.
(reference books)
Banham, Reyner (2009), Los Angeles: l’architettura di quattro ecologie. Torino: Einaudi, pp. 3–17. Koolhaas, Rem (1995) What Ever Happened to Urbanism? In: Koolhaas, R. and Mau. B., S,M,L,XL. New York: The Monicelli Press, pp. 959–971. Sieverts, Thomas (2003) The living space of the majority of mankind. In: Sieverts, Thomas, Cities Without Cities, New York, pp. 1–47.
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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From 01/10/2024 to 28/02/2025 |
Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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not mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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A project evaluation
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