TERRITORIAL AND URBAN PLANNING AND ORGANIZATION
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2020/2021
- Teacher
- GASTONE AVE
- Credits
- 5
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- ICAR/20
Training objectives
- This course enables participants to acquire basic Knowledges and skills for urban analysis and urban planning as a public service.
Knowledges.
The course provides the basic knowledge of main urban and planning methods required to any student architect.
Skills.
The course enables the student to acquire sound analysis techniques which are needed to prepare the final dissertation for the degree of Architecture, both in the case of theses focused on planning topics, and in the case of theses dealing with building design issues.
The overall goal of the course is to provide students with some useful background knowledge on urban analysis and urban planning for their future professional careers in the various fields of Architecture. Prerequisites
- Students must be able to write short assignments and make brief presentations on urban issues.
Course programme
- The course is composed by three sections, each one will be considered for the final exam.
Section 1 – Equity and urban planning
a. Land rent and public interest
b. Real estate markets in Italy and in the main European countries
c. Urban space and economic and social sustainability for local growth
Section 2 – Efficiency and urban planning
a. Policies, programmes and plans for urban regeneration and urban reuse
b. Strategic planning in Italy and in the main European countries
c. Urban marketing, theories and practices
Section 3 – Climate change and urban and regional planning
a. Sustainability and planning
b. Energy and urban planning
c. Traffic and urban systems. Didactic methods
- The teaching method is based on interaction between professor and students and among students through work groups. The method has the following integrated components:
- lectures, for about 50% of total course available hours
- written assigments, to be conducted in class and in small groups, with the aid of the professor acting as consultant of each group, for about 30% of total course available hours
- revision and lessons learned from the written assigments, to be conducted in class for about 20% of total course available hours.
Learning assessment procedures
- The final exam is a one-to-one check based on the following components: A) questions on lessons learned from the written assigments. There will be at least 2 written assignments to be conducted by student teams, with the professor acting as team consultant; B) check on the assigned texts indicated in this course as compulsary readings; C) check on optional readings, if any, within the list of optional texts indicated in the course programme.
Reference texts
- The course has both required and optional readings.
Foreign students ( including Brasilian students of the double degree program) attending classes and participating in all the required assignments, must read the required reading listed below, thus a total of 1 (one) book.
All foreign students not attending classes or attending classes but not participating in all the required written assignments must present at the final exam at least 1 (one) additional reading chosen among those indicated as optional readings (see below), over and above the required 1 (one) reading thus a total of 2 (two) readings.
Required readings:
- R. Rogers, Cities for a Small Planet, 2000
Optional readings:
Either
- G. Ave, Urban Land and Property Markets in Italy, Routledge, London, 2018
or
- G. Ave, Città e interesse pubblico. Analisi e proposte per le città italiane, 1989-2020, Gangemi Editore, 2020
or
L. Mazza, Planning and Citizenship, Routledge, 2015(Chapters 1,2 and 8)
