B9645 - MOBILITÀ E SPAZIO PUBBLICO

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide the student with knowledge useful for the reading, interpretation and design of urban public space, starting from the relationship between urban design and mobility. At the end of the course, the student possesses the basic knowledge related to: 1) the role of mobility infrastructures in urban organization; 2) the main infrastructures and services for sustainable mobility in the contemporary city; and 3) the integration of spaces for sustainable mobility in the urban project, in order to ensure safety for all users of public space and to improve its levels of accessibility, comfort and livability.

Course contents

The course alternates lectures and the performance of an exercise assigned to students individually or in small groups.

The lectures follow two thematic axes, which always keep in the background the internationally shared goals of just ecological transition and how these can actually materialize in urban transformations.

The first thematic axis consists of a series of lectures that provide the student with the tools to read the forms of mobility in the contemporary city and the policies and services for sustainable mobility (local public transport and active bicycle and pedestrian mobility).

The second axis focuses on design aspects, and in particular on the design of the street, which is the main and most widespread urban public space and the place where different mobility components can be harmonized and made safe and sustainable.

The proposed exercise consists of a critical reading of a public space and the preparation of a transformation hypothesis consistent with the issues addressed in the lectures and the objectives of safety, accessibility, comfort and livability. The area on which to carry out the exercise can be proposed by students individually or in small groups, also in relation to the design theme addressed in the final degree project.

Readings/Bibliography

Coppola, P., Pucci, P. e Pirlo, G. (a cura di), Mobilità e città: verso una post car city, Ottavo Rapporto sulle città Urban@it, Il Mulino, Bologna 2023.

Sadik-Khan Janette, Solomonow, S., Street fight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution, Penguin Random House, New York, 2016.

Colleoni, M., Mobilità e trasformazioni urbane. La morfologia della metropoli contemporanea, Franco Angeli, Milano 2019.

Parolotto, F., Muoversi in uno spazio stretto. Verso una nuova mobilità, Quodlibet, Macerata 2022.

Capuano, A. (a cura di), STREETSCAPE. Strade vitali, reti della mobilità sostenibile, vie verdi, Quodlibet, Macerata 2020.

Pileri, P., Renzoni, C. e Savoldi, P., Piazze scolastiche | Reinventare il dialogo tra scuola e città, Corraini, Mantova 2022.

Baruzzi V., Drufuca A., Sgubbi G. (a cura di), La città senza incidenti. Strategie, metodi e tecniche per progettare mobilità sicura, Regione Emilia-Romagna, La Mandragora, Imola, 2004.

Teaching methods

The course consists of lectures, seminars also involving experts, and days dedicated to the performance and review of the exercise carried out by the students.

Assessment methods

The assessment takes place throughout the course, mainly through the discussion made possible by the development of the assigned exercise. It is through the exercise that students are asked to put into practice the notions learned through the lectures and the recommended readings.

The final examination is oral, on the topics covered in the lectures and the exercise performed.

Students with SLD (specific learning disorders) or temporary or permanent disabilities are advised to contact the University office responsible in good time at

https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/it

The office will be responsible for proposing any adaptations, which must be submitted, 15 days in advance, for the approval of the teacher, who will assess the appropriateness also in relation to the teaching objectives.

Teaching tools

Lectures with multimedia presentations deposited and searchable in Virtual.
Exercise supported by cartographic materials and thematic insights searchable in Virtual.
Department library as support for bibliographic research activities, specific documentation and in-depth study.

Office hours

See the website of Valentina Orioli