99620 - ANALYSIS OF URBAN AND TERRITORIAL SYSTEMS

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The course offers students an understanding of theories, methodologies and tools of urban and regional planning. It examines planning across diverse contexts and scales, and it focuses in particular on the analysis and planning in, and for, towns, cities, and urban regions in Italy. The course deepens methods for building the necessary knowledge of territorial systems and their functioning and consequently the contents of spatial plans, policies and projects, understanding the governance and actors involved, assessing the institutional conditions of spatial interventions and understanding spatial planning challenges in an international context.

Contenuti

The contents of the course include the analysis and evaluation of urban and territorial systems, examined in their environmental context and in the framework of the natural and anthropogenic risks to which they are subject and the socioeconomic variables by which they are affected. The course offers students an understanding of theories, methodologies and tools of urban and regional planning across diverse contexts and scales. Specific contents:

•The city and the territory as systems.

•Morphological, perceptual, functional, social, and visual analysis.

•Development, levels and tools of planning.

•Environmental assessments, references to EU legislation.

•Urban redevelopment and regeneration.

•Landscape and landscape planning.

•Rural areas and gentrification.

•SDGs and cities in EU and international context.

•Planning in a changing climate.

•The role of green and natural spaces.

•Ecosystem services, ecological networks, NBSs.

•Risks, resilience and planning.

•Transport planning and sustainable mobility.

•Circular economy and cities.

•Cultural heritage, cultural cities and tourism

•The role of citizen participation in city planning.

Testi/Bibliografia

The lectures will be supported by slides with all the relevant information for the students. Eventual links to online documents and additional literature will be provided.

Slide will be distributed to students as main reference material. Specific content will be shared through from scientific articles and books.

Metodi didattici

The course will be conducted with theoretical lectures, classroom workshops, group work, and guest seminars. The presentation of urban planning principles and rules carried out in theoretical lectures is complemented by seminars with the participation of experts, with the presentation of plans and discussion of cases and best practices.

In case a student wants to take the course without attending lectures, he/she should notify the lecturer as soon as possible. In this case the student will be required to compensate by writing a final essay.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

The final grade will be based on the oral exam (70%) and the group work (30%)

Active participation during class and workshops will be considered in the evaluation.

For students not attending class the grade will be based on the oral exam (70%) and the written essay (30% - to be delivered a week before the oral exam date).

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

The teaching tools will include traditional class with video projector and pc, on-site survey, laboratory work through the use of software and drawings.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Simona Bravaglieri