- Docente: Michela Morgante
- Credits: 12
- SSD: M-STO/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in CULTURAL HERITAGE (cod. 0886)
Learning outcomes
The course is splitted into two sections. The first offers the
basic historical framework needed to understand urban development
process in Europe, between the XVIIIth and the XXth century. The
students will be trained in describing the main socio-economical
turning-points in urban history, referring to appropriate
case-studies and decoding geographical patterns.
The second section is focused on landscape both in terms of
representation (XVth-XIXth centuries) and protection (XIXth-XXth
centuries). The aim is to give the students the basic knowledge in
history of landscape painting and approach italian landmarks
preservation policies during the last two centuries.
Course contents
Ancient cities, a basic historical framework
Medieval cities, a basic historical framework
Cities in the Middle-Age, a basic historical framework
Cities in Modern Age, a basic historical framework
Territory, environment, landscape. Sector-specific approaches and
definitions
Grand Tour and landscape painting
The network of roads in the Ancien Régime (Italy and France)
Agricultural landscape and garden design (XVth-XIXth
centuries)
The rise of the modern industrial city in Europe
Railways development and new land perception
Georges-Eugène Haussmann and the Grands travaux in Paris
The British Garden City Movement
The Siedlungen in Weimar Germany - Frankfurt am Main Plan
New Amsterdam Districts - H.P. Berlage, C. van Eesteren
Old towns and new settlement - Traffic impact on traditional urban
fabric
Le Corbusier's urban vision
Highways development and landscaping (Italy and the USA, 1920-60)
Italian laws for Heritage and natural areas protection
Urban Planning in Fascist Italy
Cities in war, post-world war II reconstruction and building boom
Readings/Bibliography
L. Benevolo, La città nella storia d'Europa, Laterza, Bari
2007
C. Tosco, Il paesaggio come storia, Il Mulino, Bologna,
2007
M. Desportes, Paesaggi in movimento. Trasporti e percezione
dello spazio tra XVIII e XX secolo, Libri Scheiwiller, Milano,
2008
P. Panerai, J. Castex, J. C. Depaule, Isolato urbano e città
contemporanea, CittàStudi, Milano, 1981
Office hours
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