Università Roma Tre

The course aims to provide theoretical background for a deep analysis and interpretation of territories, their modification and their representation. The course will work on the questions: how territories can be seen, understood, represented and narrate and how their representation influence practices of planning and design? After a brief introduction about how territories have been represented in history, the course will focus on different mode of territorial representation in the contemporaneity. Beside, the cartographical and mapping approach, one of the most important tool for the territorial analysis and planning, the course will delve into geographical, narrative and symbolic approach to the analysis and representation of territories with focus on atlas and conceptual representation. The core of the course is that maps (and the act of mapping) is always a selection, approximation and symbolic interpretation of what a territory is. How to deal with territorial representation? How to render the contemporary territories which are complex, layered and polysemous? Finally, what theoretical and practical tool are necessary for a meaningful territorial representation adequate for decision making processes and interventions at large scale? In order to answer these questions, the course will explore innovation in territorial representation, planning documents, and text of different sort. In order to see how representations works in practice in the re-imaging of cities the professor will present “city tales” using different sources and material. The city tales will inform the student on how and trough which representations European cities are transforming meeting environmental issues.

Testi fondamentali:

Brotton J e Sala G (2013) La storia del mondo in 12 mappe, Feltrinelli.
Estratti da Palagiano, Asole, Arena, 1984 (nuova edizione) Cartografia e territorio nei secoli, Carocci
Estratti da Casti (2017) Cartografia e Progettazione territoriale, UTET.
Un capitolo: Corboz, 1983, Il territorio come palinsesto, in Corboz, Ordine sparso, Saggi sull’arte, il metodo, la città e il territorio, a cura di P. Vigano e B. Secchi, Franco Angeli, Milano
Gabellini, P. (2010), Fare Urbanistica, Carocci, Roma.
Secchi B, (2000), Prima Lezione di urbanistica, Laterza, Roma-Bari

Approfondimenti:

Atlas

AA.VV (1993) Atlas du Territorie Genevoise.
Boeri, S. (1996) Atlanti ecclettici, in Ricci M. Figure della trasformazione, Ed Avezzano
Ballas, Dorling, Hanning, (2014), The social Atlas of Europe
AA.VV, (2006) Atlas of Srinking cities

Caso studio Barcellona:
Un piano, Plan General de Metropolitano, Barcellona 1976
Un racconto urbanistico: Oriol Bohigas, Ricostruire Barcellona
Una storica dell’architettura: Ingrosso C., Barcellona, Skira
Uno scrittore: Cassan, Le Barcellone Pedute di Pepe Cervalho
Un video: Bay Bay Barcellona

Caso studio Amsterdam:
Historical plans: Kalf Plan (1875), Berlaghe Zuid (1914-19) Essteren Plan (1929-32)
A planner’s essay: La lezione di Amsterdam, Astengo, in Urbanistica
A strategic discourse: Amsterdam “Opting for Urbanity”
A meanstream video: https://www.iamsterdam.com/en/
A writer Geert Mak Un’idea di libertà. Biografia di Amsterdam.
From the alternative scene and urban politics: Squatting European Collective, Carefree Vacant Property on vimeo

Altri casi studio saranno definiti

This course is an introduction to the basics of urban planning tools, with specific regard to:
- their origins and evolution, in the context of Italian urban planning, during the second half of XX century;
- the meaning of terms and the proper use of technical tools.
Students will be urged to reflect on purposes and contents of technical tools, connecting the main issues concerning urban planning with their individual experience. Also, students will gain the skills for a proper use of technical tools in their further activities.

Testi principali di riferimento:
- E. Salzano, Ma dove vivi, Corte del Fontego
- V. De Lucia, Se questa è una città, Donzelli
- P. Gabellini, Tecniche urbanistiche, Carocci.
Sarà inoltre predisposta dal docente un’antologia di letture, composta da una serie di testi, forniti una settimana prima di ciascuna lezione, in modo da poter essere commentati collettivamente.

Settlement, Environment and Landscape


The SEL course, lasting one year, will jointly three components - Settlement, Environment and Landscape - considering their inseparable complementarity for the management of the reality around us. It will be a unitary course, led by lecturers who will perform the different parts of a common path.

The historic component, carried out in the first semester, will face the phenomenon "City" over time, and its manifold representations such as maps, charts, plans.
Students will be introduced to the GIS data coverage model of QGIS and several sample applications.

The landscape training will introduce students to the meaning of landscape, focusing on its constitutive parts and proposing exercises on landscape reading, interpretation and representation. It will introduce the fundamental elements of open space design, with particular reference to the treatment of the soil, grading, to the role of vegetation, to the relations with buildings, urban realm and public space.

The urban planning component – in the first semester - will introduce students to the social, environmental and urban issues characterizing Italy since 1945 until today, explaining the mutations occurred in the settlements and infrastructural networks, in the administrative systems, in the matrixes and objectives of the urban planning tools, with particular reference to the seeking of sustainability. In the second semester, the urban planning component will deal with the European contemporary issues of the urban management, offering as a practical assignment a detailed reading and interpretation applied to an area of Rome.

Bibliography: Historic component

- L. Benevolo, Le origini dell’urbanistica moderna, Laterza 1963.
- A.L. Palazzo, L. Giecillo, Territori dell’urbano. Storie e linguaggi dello spazio comune, Quodlibet 2009.

Bibliography: Landscape component

−Alvarez, D., El jardin de la arquitectura del siglo XX, Editorial Reverte, Barcelona (2008).
− Belfiore, E., Il verde e la città. Idee e progetti dal Settecento ad oggi, Gangemi Editore, Roma (2005).
− Colafranceschi, D., Landscape+100 words to inhabit it. Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.A., Barcellona (2007).
− Corrado, M. e Lambertini, A., Atlante delle nature urbane. Centouno voci per i paesaggi quotidiani, Editrice Compositori, Bologna (2011).
− FAP, a cura, Vocabolazionario. 50 voci verbali per il progetto dello spazio pubblico, n.e. 2013.
−Moore, C. W., Mitchel, W. J., Turnbull, W., The poetics of gardens, MIT Press, Cambridge-London (1988), trad. it. La poetica dei giardini, Muzzio Editore, Padova (1991).
− Pandakovic, D., Dal Sasso, A., Saper vedere il paesaggio, Ed. CittàStudi, Novara (2009).
− Panzini, F., Progettare la natura – Architettura del paesaggio e dei giardini dalle origini all’epoca contemporanea, Zanichelli, Bologna (2005).
− Sereni, E., Storia del paesaggio agrario italiano, Laterza, Roma-Bari (2014, 18° edizione).
− Zagari, F., Questo è paesaggio – 48 definizioni, Gruppo Mancosu editore, Roma (2006).
− Zagari, F., Sul paesaggio. Lettera aperta, Libria, Melfi (2013).


Bibliography: Urban Planning component

- Filpa, A., Talia, M., Fondamenti di governo del territorio, Carocci Editore, Roma (2009);
- Additional texts in PDF will be provided by the lecturer

The Course aims to provide students with basic knowledge of urban planning in general, with particular reference to urban-scale analysis. Reading the territorial context plays a central role in the Course, as it allows students to experience the use of different techniques and tools (map analysis, photo returns, statistical surveys, photographic campaigns, listening to citizens, questionnaires, etc.). .) aimed at highlighting criticalities and potentials of a specific urban area. This "state of fact" will then be compared, as far as possible critically, with the "state of law", ie with the requirements of the current Municipal Plan. In particular, the Course will have as a case study the territory of the Municipality III of Rome, subdivided into many sub-areas on each of which will focus the work of the students, carried out in groups. In order to provide the students with the tools necessary to face the application part of the Course, frontal lessons, containing both theoretical references and practical examples of the most relevant themes, will be conducted.

- Astengo G., voce “Urbanistica” in Enciclopedia Universale dell’Arte, vol. XIV, Venezia, Sansoni, 1966 (scaricabile da Internet)
- Campos Venuti G., a cura di, Cinquant’anni di urbanistica, Editori Laterza, 1993
- Gabellini P., Tecniche urbanistiche, Carocci Editore, 2001
- Gabellini P., Il disegno urbanistico, NIS, 1996
- Rizzo B. et Alii, Il territorio di San Marino. Indirizzi per un paesaggio in trasformazione, Inu Edizioni, 2006
- Talia M., La pianificazione del territorio, Il Sole 24 Ore, 2003
- Palazzo A.L., a cura di, Camoagne urbane. Paesaggi in trasformazione nell’area romana, Gangemi Editore, 2005
- Rizzo B., cura di, Reti ecologiche e piani provinciali, servizio su Urbanistica 136/2008
- Rizzo B., Paesaggi e piani: nuovi modelli insediativi e approcci urbanistici innovativi per il paesaggio italiano, in Urbanistica 132/2007
- Avarello P., Il Piano comunale, Il Sole 24 Ore, 2000
- Oliva F., Galuzzi P., Vitillo P., Progettazione urbanistica. Materiali e riferimenti per la costruzione del piano comunale, Maggioli Editore 2002
- Galassi A., Rizzo B., Città Giardino Aniene, Minerva Editore, 2013
- Rizzo B., Palazzo A., Lucchese F., a cura di, Che fine hanno fatto i centri storici?, in Urbanistica Informazioni 212/2007
- Ombuen S., Ricci M., Segnalini O., I Programmi complessi, Il Sole 24 Ore, 2000