45410 - Landscape Quality Assessment

Learning outcomes

The course aims at giving the fundamentals for the definition of the concept of landscape, together with basic technical knowledge necessary to perform landscape analysis and assessment by means of well-documented and shared methodologies.

Course contents

Main subjects are:

• Evolution of the concept of landscape
• Landscape perception: analysis methodology
• Different approaches to landscape study and assessment
• Landscape quality: aesthetic-perceptive and naturalistic-geo-ecologic meaning
• Landscape quality and visual and landscape impact assessment
• Methods for aggregated evaluation of landscape components, for finding visual preferences and methods resulting from the integration of these two categories
• Some methods known in scientific literature for visual quality and landscape assessment
• Use of current CAD and GIS simulation technologies supporting territorial and project visual analysis
• Examples of application of landscape visual analysis.

Readings/Bibliography

Lecture notes.

Valerio Romani IL PAESAGGIO DELL’ALTO GARDA BRESCIANO”  Grafo 1988.

Romani, Il paesaggio. Teoria e pianificazione, Franco Angeli, Milano, 1994.

Teaching methods

The concept of landscape is explained according to different approaches that characterized it in different ages. Main elements and instruments for visual analysis of landscape and territorial components and of projects are then explained. Explanation and discussions about case studies and practical lessons will allow the students to get a critical ability in analysing landscape and to recognize perceptive issues defining characters of sites.

Assessment methods

The final examination tests the student's knowledge about the whole course, by means of oral tests and graphical papers about some of the explained methodologies.

Teaching tools

Overhead projector; PC and PCprojector; maps; PC and software for CAD and GIS simulation and digital rendering.

Office hours

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