Università Roma Tre

General references
The cognitive path for technical learning and urban planning is structured in three parts: the first is dedicated to the themes and methods of urban planning, with respect to a historical / socio-economic approach; the second traces the decisive moments of urban planning, with respect to the normative legal approach; the third one is dedicated to application techniques and tools, with the help of exercises and report processing.
Urban planning interests in a transversal way the sectors of hydraulic engineering, structures, road infrastructures and transport systems, characterizing the Degree Course in Civil Engineering.

Target
Transfer knowledge about theories, norms, methods and tools for analysis and planning of the city and the territory.
Interpretation and analysis of urban models, for the design of general and implementing urban plans.
The European directives for the sustainable redevelopment of the territories
The course has the following objectives: to transfer the principles of the urban planning; disseminate knowledge of complex city and territory systems; indicate the techniques to interpret, plan, design, govern the city and the territory; indicate the main urban planning and design tools for the protection and sustainable development of the territory.

Lecture Program
• Urban, city, territory and environment concepts
• Evolution of urban planning concept
• Definitions of city, territory, environment and landscape
• History of Urbanism
• Fundamentals of urban law: from the environmental landscape to the structural plan
• Urban tools
• European guidelines for urban regeneration
• Sustainable urban mobility plan

Exercise
A Strategic Urban Plan for urban regeneration and sustainable development of the territory.
CASE STUDY CHOICE

• Benevolo, L. (1989). Le origini dell’urbanistica moderna. Bari: Universale Laterza

• Colombo G. Pagano F. Rossetti M. Manuale di urbanistica. Milano: Il Sole 24 Ore, 2001.
• European Commission. EC (2013b). Guidelines. Developing and implementing a sustainable urban mobility plan. Retrieved April 2017, from http://www.eltis.org/sites/eltis/files/guidelines-developing-and-implementing-a-sump_final_web_jan2014b.pdf
• Jacobs, J. (1961). The death and life of great American cities. New York: Random House.

• Salzano E. (2002), Fondamenti di urbanistica: la storia e la norma, Roma, Laterza