- Docente: Francesco Ceccarelli
- Credits: 5
- SSD: ICAR/18
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Francesco Ceccarelli (Modulo 1) Daniele Pascale Guidotti Magnani (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Advanced Design (cod. 9256)
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from Feb 22, 2023 to May 03, 2023
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from May 10, 2023 to Jun 07, 2023
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide knowledge about the history of the contemporary city and the actors involved in its transformation. The course explains design actions conceived outside the specialized design disciplines and the circumstantial events in which nonspecialist actors, acting, transform physical space. At the end of the course the student knows how to critically analyze complex urban places.
Course contents
The course will serve as a critical itinerary for understanding the contemporary city in light of its historical evolution. After addressing the formation and development of the Italian and European city of the Ancien Régime more broadly, we will focus on some aspects of its physical reorganization and its profound morphological and functional transformations from the late 18th century to the present.
Readings/Bibliography
L. Benevolo, Storia della città. Vol.4, la città contemporanea, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari 2008.
D. Calabi, Storia della città. L'età contemporanea, Marsilio Editori, Venezia 2005.
R. Sennett, Costruire e abitare. Etica per la città, Feltrinelli, Milano 2018.
F. Ceccarelli, L'Intelligenza della città, Bononia University Press, Bologna 2020.
B. Wilson, Metropolis, Jonathan Cape, London 2020.
Teaching methods
Lectures will alternate with seminar sessions during which the topics covered will be explored in greater depth. Covid-related health conditions permitting, educational outings in the historic center of Bologna are also planned.
Assessment methods
The History of the City and Territory exam will test the knowledge of the topics covered in the lectures and evaluate the participation in the scheduled seminar, which includes the development of an assigned exercise. The final grade will be awarded based on the following criteria:
1: Knowledge of and ability to critically address the topics covered in the course (0 to 20 points)
1: Evaluation of the seminar exercise through periodic reviews and final discussion (0 to 10 points)
Teaching tools
Lectures will be accompanied by graphic and photographic material presented through video projections and web-based links.
Office hours
See the website of Francesco Ceccarelli
See the website of Daniele Pascale Guidotti Magnani