Università Roma Tre

The SEL course, lasting one year, will develop 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 along a common path.

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.

Filpa, A., Talia, M., Fondamenti di governo del territorio, Carocci Editore, Roma (2009);

KNOW AND EVALUATE TO IMPROVE THE CITY

course learning outcomes
The course aims to introduce students to the tools and operational practices within the theoretical and legislative framework of Italian and European urban planning, developed through lectures and guided readings.
The practical part is developed through analytical design exercises on basic topics, starting at the beginning of the course and aimed at developing methods and techniques for analysis, evaluation and design in a limited urban context (parts of cities), with a focus on morphology and the graphic and symbolic language of disciplinary expression.

The experiment is organised into phases of classroom seminars, with standardised procedures and unified content.
In summary, the phases are:
- presentation of the topic/problem and definition of the exercise objectives;
- reading of the context by systems ( pattern, open space and services, infrastructure) and levels (from the block to the neighbourhood);
- assessment of points of contradiction (functional, morphological and environmental) and spaces available and/or reclaimable for transformation;
- possible proposals for design interventions as a response to the contradictions identified.

The basic theoretical topics covered, in summary, concern:
- critical presentation of the discipline, through a basic glossary and historical and critical notes on the city and urban planning;
- interpretation of the morphologies of settlement transformation (morphological typologies and descriptive models);
- identification of transformation factors (localisation theory, rent theory, social and ecological theories, etc.);
- the plan (content, scale and effectiveness);
- content and evolution of technical regulatory instruments and means of expressing the plan.
The examination will focus on the critical analysis and discussion of the work carried out in class and certain related theoretical aspects.

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Gaeta, L., (2024), Il primo libro di Urbanistica, Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi Mappe Ed. Einaudi ISBN: 978-8806260620
Gaeta, L., Rivolin, U.J., Mazza, L., (2017), Governo del territorio e pianificazione spaziale. Città Studi ISBN 9788825174199
Nucci, L., (2022), Regole o non regole del progetto del verde in aree inquinate, coll. Politecnica, Maggioli Spa, ISBN: 8891650863 OPEN ACCESS
Nucci, L., (2012), Verde di prossimità e disegno urbano. Le open space strategies ed i local development frameworks dei 32+1 boroughs di Londra, Gangemi Editore, Roma ISBN 9788849215137
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