Università Roma Tre

The design of open space is of crucial importance in the construction of the contemporary city and the definition of urban and territorial relations.
The training activity focuses on the understanding of the multiple declinations of the open space project: urban parks, public gardens, urban gardens, squares, streets through the analysis and critical description of some significant examples investigated in their historical, cultural, geographical and social context.
The course also includes the elaboration of the open spaces project sharing the theme and the project area of the Architectural Design Laboratory. The design activity, conducted in close synergy with the lecturers of the other modules, will start from the reading of the stratification and archaeology of places, the practices of inhabiting open space, the environmental dynamics and will bring into play the knowledge of urban, architectural and landscape architecture design.

J. Corner, Recovering Landscape. Essays in the contemporary landscape architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton, 1999.
A. Gabbianelli, Spazi residuali. La vegetazione nei processi di rigenerazione urbana, GOTOECO, Gorizia, 2017.
H. Loidl e S. Bernard, Opening Spaces. Design as Landscape Architecture, Birkhäuser, Basel 2014.
F. Zagari, Manuale di progettazione giardini, Mancosu Editore, Roma, 2009.

The design of open space is of crucial importance in the construction of the contemporary city and in the definition of urban and territorial relations.
The training activity focuses on the understanding of the multiple declinations of the open space project: urban parks, public gardens, urban gardens, squares, streets through the analysis and critical description of some significant examples investigated in their historical, cultural, geographical and social context.
The course also includes the elaboration of the open spaces project sharing the theme and the project area of the Architectural Design Laboratory. The design activity, conducted in close synergy with the lecturers of the other modules, will start from the reading of the stratification and archaeology of places, the practices of inhabiting open space, the environmental dynamics and will bring into play the knowledge of urban, architectural and landscape architecture design.

J. Corner, Recovering Landscape. Essays in the contemporary landscape architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton, 1999.
A. Gabbianelli, Spazi residuali. La vegetazione nei processi di rigenerazione urbana, GOTOECO, Gorizia, 2017.
H. Loidl e S. Bernard, Opening Spaces. Design as Landscape Architecture, Birkhäuser, Basel 2014.
F. Zagari, Manuale di progettazione giardini, Mancosu Editore, Roma, 2009.

The Laboratory intends to insert itself with its teaching program within the urban regeneration program of Rome Tuscolana, recently launched by Roma Capitale and FS Sistemi Urbani. The redevelopment is linked from an infrastructural point of view to the development of the exchange node between rail and underground. The main objective is to transform the area by aiming at:
- improving the use of places by reducing vehicular traffic, promoting a sustainable mobility network, in line with city mobility policies,
- inserting new functions and citizenship services.
- create new special residences
- create public spaces and equipped green areas.
The site covered by the program is located in the Appio – Tuscolano district, characterized by a high population density, with residential buildings from the 70s of around 7-8 floors, tertiary activities ampersands. The area develops along the railway, from via Adria, continuing on the Station square, up to via della Stazione Tuscolana and is crossed by important urban routes: to the south via Appia Nuova and via Tuscolana and to the north via Casilina vecchia with the aqueduct del Mandrione.

Aree ferroviarie dismesse e riqualificazione urbana
AA.VV., FS Sistemi Urbani, Scali ferroviari a Milano. Rigenerazione urbana: casi studio, AECOM, Milano, 2016.
AA.VV., FS Sistemi Urbani, Scali ferroviari, benchmarking di rigenerazioni urbane di successo su aree ferroviarie dismesse, ARUP, Milano, 2016.
AA.VV., Le aree ferroviarie dismesse, in “Eco Web Town” EWT, n.20, 2019.
AA.VV., Scali ferroviari, da infrastrutture di trasporto ad aree urbane, in “Trasporti e cultura” n. 52
AA.VV., Periferie, luoghi della trasformazione, in “Trasporti e cultura” n. 45
AA.VV., Turrisbabel, Wettbewerb_Concorso Bolzano ARBO 2011
AA.VV., Sette aree ferroviarie a Torino, a cura di Urban Lab, 2019.
M. Calzolaretti (a cura di), Strutture della mobilità- L’area della Stazione Tuscolana a Roma, Gangemi, Roma 2003.
L. Montedoro (a cura di), Le grandi trasformazioni urbane. Una ricerca e un dibattito per gli scali milanesi, Fondazione OAMi, Milano, 2018
S. Protasoni, Luoghi abbandonati. La costruzione del paesaggio, in S. Protasoni (a cura di), Milano scali ferroviari, LIBRACCIO Editore, 2013, pp. 177-185

Progettazione degli spazi pubblici, infrastrutture della mobilità e architetture a volume zero
AA.VV., Spazio pubblico e rigenerazione urbana, in “L’industria delle costruzioni” n. 467/2019.
AA.VV., Luoghi di transito: le stazioni, in “L’industria delle costruzioni” n. 451/2016.
AA.VV., Mobilità urbana e luoghi dell’attraversamento, in “L’industria delle costruzioni” n.460/2018.
AA.VV., Infrastrutture e sviluppo urbano sostenibile, in “L’industria delle costruzioni” n. 473/2020.
AA.VV., Spazi Pubblici, in “L’industria delle costruzioni” n. 428/2012.
AA.VV., “Lotus International” n. 87/1995
AA.VV., “Lotus International” n. 109/2001 Sui Parchi tematici
AA.VV., “Lotus International” n. 128/2006 Reclaiming Terrain
AA.VV., “Lotus International” n. 150/2012 Landscape Urbanism
A. Aymonino, V.P. Mosco, Spazi pubblici contemporanei. Architettura a volume zero, Skira, Milano 2006
M.G. Cianci, Centopiazze. Il programma centopiazze per Roma, strategie di riqualificazione dello spazio pubblico romano, Palombi Editori, Modena 2019
J. Corner (a cura di), Recovering Landscape. Essay in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 1999.
A. Gabbianelli, Spazi residuali. La vegetazione nei processi di rigenerazione urbana, GOTOECO Editore, Gorizia, 2017

Teoria della progettazione e Manuali di supporto alla progettazione
L. Dall’Olio, Semplicità. Riflessioni su una dimensione dell’architettura, Christian Marinotti, Milano 2020
L. Zevi, Il Nuovissimo Manuale dell’Architetto, Mancosu, Roma 2012
L. Dall’Olio, D. Mandolesi, Manuale di progettazione. La residenza Collettiva, Mancosu, Roma 2014
L. Reale, Densità, città, residenza. Tecniche di densificazione e strategie anti-sprawl, Gangemi, Roma 2008

Sviluppo urbano di Roma nella modernità

P. O. Rossi, Roma, Guida all’architettura moderna 1909-2011, Bari 2012
L. Benevolo, Roma dal 1879 al 1990, Bari 1992
I. Insolera, Roma moderna. Da Napoleone I al XXI secolo, Einaudi, Torino 2011

Other texts and monographic issues of magazines will be indicated by the teacher during the lessons.

The European landscape, more than any other, has suffered a huge loss of natural habitats because of fragmentation of land uses and landscapes due to human activities and infrastructure. Such processes, resulting in an alarming decrease in many wildlife populations, are likely to jeopardize biodiversity conservation. Lately, although the main natural areas are now largely protected by the Natura 2000 Network, new concerns have been raised related to climatic challenges and to overall ecological performances within metropolitan areas. Green Infrastructures, encompassing further green (land) and blue (water) spaces, are strategically planned networks of natural and semi-natural areas with other environmental features designed and managed to deliver a wide range of ecosystem services such as water purification, air quality, space for recreation and climate mitigation and adaptation.
Under a planning perspective, new relationships between urban and rural in contemporary territories raise questions about land use, level of fragmentation and fragility, management of landscape and experimentation of appropriate forms of inclusive governance.
The module program focuses on sustainability issues related to urban regeneration projects and programs.
In the first teaching unit (2 CFU) a focus on European cities will be prepared with particular regard to the theme of nature in the city, conveyed by policy measures and practices relating to greenways and "Green Infrastructure", that is strategically planned networks that include the widest range of green spaces and other environmental features.
In the second teaching unit (2 CFU), these issues will be addressed with particular regard to Roma Capitale and Roma Città Metropolitana, in close relation with the training objectives of the Laboratorio.

Testi adottati
• Calzolari V., Storia e Natura come sistema, Argos, 1997.
• Hall P., Good cities, better lives : how Europe discovered the lost art of urbanism, London New York, Routledge, 2013.
• Insolera I., Roma moderna, Einaudi, Torino, 1962.
• Palazzo A.L. (a cura di), Campagne urbane. Paesaggi in trasformazione nell’area romana, Gangemi, Roma, 2005.

Bibliografia di riferimento
• “Romacentro”, fascicoli da 1 a 8, Palombi, Roma, 1986.
• “Urbanistica”: n. 28-29, 1959; n. 40, 1964; n. 46-47, 1966; n. 106, 1996; n. 110, 1998; n. 116, 2002.
• Aymonino C., Progettare Roma Capitale, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1990.
• Benevolo L., Roma dal 1870 al 1990, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1992.
• Caracciolo C., Roma Capitale, Editori Riuniti, Roma, 1956.
• Clementi A., Perego F. (a cura di), La metropoli “spontanea”. Il caso di Roma, Roma, 1983.
• Cuccia G., Urbanistica, edilizia, infrastrutture di Roma capitale 1870-1990, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1991.
• Longobardi G., Piccinato G., Quilici V. (a cura di), Campagne romane, Firenze, Alinea, 2009.
• Marcelloni M., Pensare la città contemporanea – Il nuovo piano regolatore di Roma, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2003.
• Tocci V. (2011) “Utopie ed eterotopie dell’accessibilità”, in Secchi R. (a cura di), Future GRA, Prospettive, Roma; reperibile al link http://archivio.eddyburg.it/article/articleview/16953/0/124/

The design studio assumes the Green Ring (Anello Verde) of Rome as the frame of reference. The Green Ring is the territorial figure into which the Reinventing Cities – C40 call for project for the Tuscolana Station urban node fits. Approved in July 2020, the Green Ring technically is the Schema di Assetto Generale dell'Anello Verde (General layout scheme of the Green Ring), an act of programmatic direction for the sustainable redevelopment of the railway ring and the eastern sector of the territory of Roma Capitale (Roma Capitale 2020).

This “project of the ground” accepts and works with the existing fragmentation of the city to shape a “coherent discursive universe” (Secchi 2002, 2005). This project of the ground defines a territorial figure. As for other urban figures, the general layout scheme of the Green Ring presupposes the modifications of certain strategic poles together with a number of transversal equipment—such as the slow mobility axes—that hold the projects together binding them to each other.

By moving across the scales, from that of the Rome Capital Region (Baioni et al. 2019) to that of the area of the Tuscolana Station object of the Reinventing Cities – C40 project, the aim of the course is first of all to reflect on the role of the territorial figure and its ability to federate the different actors in the area, their intentions for the future.

What are the conditions under which “the nodes of intense architectonic quality (which generally coincide with the places where politics, bureaucracy, finance, institutional information are entrenched)” and which "are given and received as an expression of the whole community", do not actually promote “the fragmentation of social groups by alienating them from the concrete problems of the physical space in which they actually live?" (De Carlo, 2013: 59).

Baioni, Mauro, Caudo, Giovanni e de Strobel, Lorenzo (2019) Abitare nella regione capitale di Roma: una prospettiva inedita. (working paper)

De Carlo, Giancarlo (2013) L’architettura della partecipazione. Macerata: Quodlibet.

Mitrašinović, Miodrag (ed.) (2016). Concurrent Urbanities: Designing Infrastructures of Inclusion. New York: Routledge.

Secchi, Bernardo (1986) Progetto di suolo, Casabella, n.520-521, pp.19 -23.

Secchi, Bernardo (2002, 2003, 2005), “Diary of a Planner”, in Planum. The Journal of Urbanism, www.planum.net, nos. 4/2002-11/2005.

Urban economy combines elements of economy and geography to study choices made in the urban space and the dynamics related to these choices.

The course is organized into two parts.

In the first part some introductory elements of microeconomics and basic models of the urban economy will be presented. Main concepts and theories underlying the topic will also be discussed together with some trends of growth and transformation of cities.

The second part will provide and put into practice the knowledge needed to evaluate policies and investments on a territorial scale and in particular on an urban scale. To this end, the cost-benefit analysis for investment projects will be presented together with some case studies to facilitate the understanding of how this can be applied to real cases. Afterwards, the students, divided into groups, will work on some projects that will be discussed and presented in class.

First part
Governa, F. e Memoli, M. (2011). Geografia dell’urbano: spazi, politiche, pratiche della città. Carocci, Roma.
O’Sullivan, A. (2012). Urban Economics, McGraw-Hill, Maidenhead

Second part
d’Albergo, E., & De Leo, D. (Eds.). (2018). Politiche urbane per Roma: Le sfide di una Capitale debole. Sapienza Università Editrice.
A.A. V.V. (2003). Guida all'analisi costi-benefici dei progetti di investimento (Fondi Strutturali, Fondo di Coesione e ISPA).

Urban economy combines elements of economy and geography to study choices made in the urban space and the dynamics related to these choices.

The course is organized into two parts.

In the first part some introductory elements of microeconomics and basic models of the urban economy will be presented. Main concepts and theories underlying the topic will also be discussed together with some trends of growth and transformation of cities.

The second part will provide and put into practice the knowledge needed to evaluate policies and investments on a territorial scale and in particular on an urban scale. To this end, the cost-benefit analysis for investment projects will be presented together with some case studies to facilitate the understanding of how this can be applied to real cases. Afterwards, the students, divided into groups, will work on some projects that will be discussed and presented in class.

First part
Governa, F. e Memoli, M. (2011). Geografia dell’urbano: spazi, politiche, pratiche della città. Carocci, Roma.
O’Sullivan, A. (2012). Urban Economics, McGraw-Hill, Maidenhead

Second part
d’Albergo, E., & De Leo, D. (Eds.). (2018). Politiche urbane per Roma: Le sfide di una Capitale debole. Sapienza Università Editrice.
A.A. V.V. (2003). Guida all'analisi costi-benefici dei progetti di investimento (Fondi Strutturali, Fondo di Coesione e ISPA).