Università Roma Tre

The course deals with the themes of the project at the urban scale within the methods envisaged by the new PRG of the city of Rome, with a focus on issues such as: urban regeneration of the city, the reuse of disused public heritage, the implementation of the objectives of fight against climate change (reduction of climate-altering emissions, resistance to extreme climatic events), forms of collective participation in the different phases of the project, the use of innovative legal approaches (urban equalization, local management of building rights, the creation of public services with the use of PPP formulas), the infrastructural endowment of the suburban areas and the infrastructural equalization on an urban scale.
The laboratory provides elements of urban planning at the scale of operational municipal planning, with reference to the reading of the general scale and with reference to the principles and methods of sustainable urban development.


Study topic: urban regeneration in Rome between infrastructures and ecological network, in the perspective of ecological transition
The study context is the Roman metropolitan area. The specific area of ​​exercise corresponds to the territorial area affected by the existing and above all planned rail system (subways, trams) in the peripheral areas along the Tiber river north and south of Rome, from the Flaminio district to the alluvial plain between the Tiberina and Salaria and from Testaccio to the sea, and along the main inferences of the secondary river network.

The elaborations will concern the development of intervention programs for urban regeneration and for the restoration of environmental and landscape values ​​of critical contexts characterized by the existence of public goods that can act as a driving force for a higher feasibility of regeneration interventions and for the most advanced pursuit of sustainability and public interest objectives. The design elaborations will start from a verification of the planning schemes present in the PRG of Rome of 2008, in particular from the Strategic Planning Areas and from the Preliminary Layout Schemes for the city to be restored.

In particular, the intervention hypotheses will concern the contexts where the risk deriving from phenomena related to ongoing climate change arises, to measure the feasibility of urban transformation interventions including issues of settlement transfer and ecological regeneration of settlements; and those characterized by large public properties involved in the processes of decommissioning and privatization of assets, activated for the purpose of reducing the deficits of local and municipal authorities (former forts and barracks, owned by municipalized companies such as AMA and ATAC, various state-owned assets).

Particular attention will be paid to the structural conditions (physical, economic, social) for the production of public goods and for their renewal, also through the quantitative verification of the infrastructural endowment and the comparison of the indicators measured with the indicators defined by the service objectives, and the evaluation of indicators relating to the dimensions of the SDGs.

Organization of teaching
The elaborations will be carried out in working groups of two to four components, equipped with a laptop on which to carry out the project activities. The exam papers will be produced in A3 - A2 - A1 format or in a notebook, with free technique. For the preparation of the Album, the following are required: PRG materials, basic maps (CTR 1: 10,000, IGM 1: 25,000, PTPR Tables A and B, other), and knowledge of the main software. The materials made available will be uploaded to the laboratory's googledrive. Others will be loaded as needed as they are needed.

The processing steps envisaged include:
 the identification and recognition of the contexts present in the study area, of the infrastructural endowment and of local services and of the phenomena of physical and social degradation and of resources / opportunities for intervention offered by the application of the new PRG of the city, and of the compatibility with the provisions of the PTPR; the study of the context must include the understanding and synthesis of knowledge relating to orographic characters, hydrographic networks, environmental mascrosystems, land and agricultural parcellations (where present), the morphology of buildings and vegetation (plant textures), with comparisons chronological, building sedimentation of uneven and stratified conditions and materials.
 the formation of a summary of the main public objectives that can be deduced from the study of the PRG forecasts and the cognitive framework of the plan, or possibly in its variation, with particular regard to the maintenance / restoration of landscape values, to the system of local public services and urban scale, and the dimensioning of the offer of social housing destinations; this phase will include the definition of the territorial endowments present and a rough sizing of the desirable endowments, according to a recent cultural and administrative orientation that tends to go beyond the traditional urban planning standards;
 the formation of the preliminary layout scheme, according to the methods that the Rome PRG provides for Integrated Intervention Programs or Urban Projects, as well as the preliminary program of interventions to be carried out.

This first phase of work will be carried out by macro-groups, each of which will face the revision of the preliminary layout scheme of a PRINT or an Urban Project, also in light of the definition of landscape compatibility. The phase will end roughly within the first month of work, with a collective moment of confrontation between the documents produced by the macro-groups.

Subsequently, each design group will choose an area and a design theme to work on, taking the design exercise to the end. It will include:
 the design of specific transformation proposals, assuming the contribution of subjects and resources of public and private origin;
 the definition of a general framework of the economic and financial feasibility of the intervention, starting from a basic scheme that will be provided by the Laboratory.

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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.

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The course will reconstruct the scenario of the relationships between the different actors participating in the life of the city against the background of urban policies and planning, bringing students closer to the reality in which they will certainly find themselves involved in the future as citizens, technicians, operators.
The - ideological - aim is to avoid disciplinary preconceptions by giving space to the ability to "listen" to the territory and to accompany it with that set of actions that determine the quality of urban policies.
The context of study and experimentation will be the vast south-western outskirts of Rome towards the Sea (Acilia, Casal Palocco, Infernetto, etc.), to study its evolution, changes in settlement and mobility models.
Knowledge of this will be deepened, aimed at the construction of a multiscalar and multidisciplinary "problems-objectives" matrix.
Based on a hypothesis of administrative reorganization that attributes a different level of autonomy to the Municipalities of Rome, the students will be asked to collectively define a Masterplan of the entire study area, experimenting with a role-playing game in which they will play the different roles, institutional and non-institutional (public administration, perhaps economic, citizens) involved in urban dynamics. This will make it possible to formulate a hypothesis for a municipal urban planning project, in compliance with regional and state regulations, a mobility plan, a public works program and a socio-economic plan.
Topics of the main lessons:
- The general and finalized analyses
- The "problems-objectives" matrix
- The "theoretical grid" and urban planning techniques
- Infrastructures and urban plans: the mobility project in the plan
- Local policies and urban plan
- Sustainability and feasibility of integrated urban planning.

Mario Cerasoli, Gianluca Mattarocci (a cura di), Rigenerazione urbana e mercato immobiliare. Roma : RomaTrE-Press, 2018