Università Roma Tre

The topics of the lessons, grouped into seven cycles, will be the following:

1. THE CITY FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE RENAISSANCE: URBAN PLANNING TRANSFORMATIONS AND THEORY OF THE CITY

 Cities and treatises between the 15th and 16th centuries: premises for Renaissance urban planning

 The palace as a city in nuce: Urbino, Ferrara and Pienza

 Rome in the fifteenth century - I

 Rome in the fifteenth century - II

 Rome in the first half of the sixteenth century

 Rome in the second half of the sixteenth century

 The urban planning of Naples and Palermo in the sixteenth century

2. ROME: THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE CITY BETWEEN BAROQUE MAGNIFICENCE AND NEOCLASSIC RULE

 The urban planning of Baroque Rome

 Rome in the eighteenth century - I

 Rome in the eighteenth century - II

3. THE CULTURE OF URBAN DESIGN IN ENLIGHTENMENT EUROPE

• France: Paris from the Patte plan to the Napoleonic age

• Great Britain: London from the "Great Fire" to Nash's interventions

• Some Italian situations: Turin, Milan, Rome, Naples, Messina

• St. Petersburg and Tsarist Russia

4. THE GREAT URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY AND THE BIRTH OF THE URBAN PLANNING DISCIPLINE

• Haussmann's Paris.

• Vienna and the Ring.

• Berlin and the Mietkasernen.

• Barcelona and Plan Cerdà.

• Theoretical elaborations on the city in Germany between the 19th and 20th centuries: Baumeister, Stübben, Eberstadt. The thoughts of Camillo Sitte.

5. 'ANTI-URBAN' THEORIES AND EXPERIENCES

• The problem of workers' residence from the proposals of utopian socialism to the first industrial villages.

• Howard and the Garden City. Unwin and the Garden Suburb.

• The diffusion and developments of the idea of ​​the Garden City in Germany and Austria: Gartenstadt, Gartensiedlung, rural colonies and workers' cities from the beginning of the century to the Third Reich. Moments of the Italian story: 'garden cities' and 'new cities'.

• Soria y Mata and the linear city.

6. TRENDS IN URBAN DESIGN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

The relationship with the historic city:

• Berlage and the Dutch affair.

• Vienna from Otto Wagner to the Höfe.

• Perret and the Le Havre case.

• The monumental city of totalitarian regimes: Rome and Berlin.

The myth of the new:

• Garnier and the Cité industrielle.

• The 'modern' metropolis. Le Corbusier and Hilberseimer.

• The rationalist Siedlungen in Weimar Germany.

• Affirmation, diffusion and crisis of the urban planning concepts of the Modern Movement: the Weissenhofsiedlung, the C.I.A.M. affair, the International Style, housing units and macrostructures, the recovery of historical memory after the Second World War.

The American city
• Notes on overseas colonies (17th century)
• Urban planning developments in the United States of America in the age of Liberalism: structure and form
• The new American frontier cities
• From the 'Park Movement' to the 'City Beautiful Movement'
• New York
• Chicago: urban developments from its birth to the '93 World's Fair. Burnham's Plan of 1909
• Washington
• San Francisco

7. THE “VERTICAL” CITY
• From nineteenth-century miradors to the symbolic skyscrapers in the urban planning of the new millennium

 Enrico GUIDONI, La Città dal Medioevo al Rinascimento, Biblioteca di Cultura moderna, 848, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1989, pp. 215-255.
 ID., Angela MARINO, Storia dell’urbanistica. Il Cinquecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1982
 ID., Storia dell’urbanistica. Il Seicento, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1982
 Paolo MICALIZZI, Roma nel XVIII secolo, Atlante storico delle città italiane, Roma 3, Edizioni Kappa, Roma 2003
 Paolo SICA, Storia dell’urbanistica. Il Settecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1981
 ID, Storia dell'urbanistica. L'Ottocento, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1981, voll. I-II
 Italo INSOLERA, Roma Moderna, Un secolo di Storia Urbanistica 1870-1970, Einaudi, Torino 1993
 Paolo SICA, Storia dell'urbanistica. Il Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1981