Università Roma Tre

Educational Goals
The course aims at providing the elements of the discipline, methodology and technique to intervene in those urban areas, historic and non, identified since 1978 by the Law 457, which introduced the instrument of the Recovery Plan.
This also and especially in the light of the evolution that the instrument had over the years and the current urban dynamics, ever more interested in the recovery of the existing urban areas.


Program of the Course
Talking about urban renewal is an opportunity to learn and enhance the wealth of households, quarters and cities that form the majority of urban contexts in which we live.
An historical centre, in particular, is a territorial context extremely delicate, with a distinct urban identity and a high historical value referable both to the urban structure and to the individual buildings, including those of significant value. Any planning action concerning an historical centre is therefore complex because "it is about, in the first place, to know it and recognize it, so as to understand its characteristics - spatial, documentary, functional - that identify it" (G.Piccinato, 2008).
Understand, in essence, the territorial role.
But also, and above all, it is important to understand the vision that the inhabitants and users have of the historical centre ("who owns the centre?").
The course will be divided in the following four parts, strictly related:

1. recovery planning: the scientific background and evolution of the disciplinary debate
In this part the scientific context of urban renewal ("what we talk about?") in the field of the urban planning regulations will be defined and will run the history of the disciplinary debate that, since the Fifties, addressed urban contexts, and later even those degraded both in terms physical and social, will be studied.
2. legislation and planning instruments
This part will analyze the texts of laws affecting the intervention on historical contexts, and in general on the existing building and urban structures, and related planning instruments, from the Recovery Plan (Art. 27 of Law 457 of 1978), up to the integrated programs of the nineties.
3. techniques
The study of the techniques of interventions in historical contexts will make use of the analyses of recovery plans and detailed plans of town centres, checking out the objectives, contents, technical procedures, the procedural issues and, finally, the story of implementation.
4. a practical exercise
Together with the theoretical study, the analyses of a small urban town, the small town of Sutri (Viterbo), will be run in order to set a draft Recovery Plan and identify the related urban policies.

The course consists of lectures, seminars, guided visits and project workshops. In particular at the end of the course, there will be an intensive project workshop lasting six days (from 13 to 18 June 2016).

The course, optional, is open to students enrolled in the three degree courses and will last 100 hours (8 credits).
For the exam, students must demonstrate that they have acquired elements of the discipline studied during the course and explain the output of their practical exercise.

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