Learning objectives
The course is proposed as a preliminary and introductory moment to the themes related to the city and the territory and more generally to the urbanistic disciplines.
It is called to have a general teaching value for all students, to achieve a basic educational level in urban planning, at the same time has a more targeted function of general presentation of urban planning useful for students interested in deepening this thematic area.
The course therefore intends to:
-provide a synthetic evolutionary framework of urban planning in relation to the phenomena of urban development, starting from the themes related to the contemporary city.
-provide theoretical notions for the understanding of the city, of the urban space, of the territory and of the landscape, as well as of the recent forms of urbanization dispersed in the territory;
- provide a first scenario of the history of the western city;
- provide specific tools for the analysis of the physical ingredients of human settlement;
-provide a first knowledge of the urban planning regulations in force;
-provide the basic knowledge of Geographic Information Systems and their application in the analysis of Urban and Territorial Systems.
Prerequisites
No prerequisite is required.
Course unit content
The course is divided into three teaching modules.
In the first module the historical evolution of the city is roughly sketched, starting from its affirmation at the end of the Neolithic up to the present day (the first cities, the Greek cities, the Roman city, the medieval cities, the baroque city. nineteenth-century city), with particular attention to the events of the cities and of the Italian territory from the Unification to today. In the treatment of urban evolution from the nineteenth and twentieth century, some important disciplinary experiences will be mentioned in the history of European urban planning.
In the second module, a series of terminology and nomenclature schedules will be provided, used in the urban planning and planning fields.
The third module will be proposed the main topics that affect the contemporary city (urban expansion, land consumption, management of complex urban systems, ...), highlighting technical problems and application experiences.
Full programme
Course language:
Italiano
Contents:
The course is divided into three teaching modules.
In the first module the historical evolution of the city is roughly sketched, starting from its affirmation at the end of the Neolithic up to the present day (the first cities, the Greek cities, the Roman city, the medieval cities, the baroque city. nineteenth-century city), with particular attention to the events of the cities and of the Italian territory from the Unification to today. In the treatment of urban evolution from the nineteenth and twentieth century, some important disciplinary experiences will be mentioned in the history of European urban planning.
In the second module, a series of terminology and nomenclature schedules will be provided, used in the urban planning and planning fields.
The third module will be proposed the main topics that affect the contemporary city (urban expansion, land consumption, management of complex urban systems, ...), highlighting technical problems and application experiences.
Basic texts:
Agostino Petrillo - Villaggi, Città, Megalopoli, 2006, Carocci Editore, Roma
Leonardo Benevolo - La fine della città, 2011, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari
Edoardo Salzano – Fondamenti di Urbanistica, 2003 – Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari
Manual for those working in the ArcGis environment:
Giovanni Biallo - Introduzione ai sistemi informativi geografici, 2005, MondoGIS, Roma
Recommended texts:
Bernardo Secchi - La città del ventesimo secolo, 2005, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari
Massimo Cacciari - La città, 2004, Pazzini Editore
Le Corbusier, Maniera di pensare l’urbanistica, 1965 (1946), Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari
Francoise Choay, La città. Utopie e realtà, 1973 (1965), Einaudi, Torino
Lewis Mumford, La città nella storia, 3 voll. , 1977 (1961), Bompiani , Milano
Cesare e Augusto Mercandino, Storia del territorio e delle città d’Italia. Dal 1800 ai giorni nostri, 1976, Mazzotta, Milano
Guido Zucconi, La città dell’Ottocento, 2007, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari
Educational goals:
The course is proposed as a preliminary and introductory moment to the themes related to the city and the territory and more generally to the urbanistic disciplines.
It is called to have a general teaching value for all students, to achieve a basic educational level in urban planning, at the same time has a more targeted function of general presentation of urban planning useful for students interested in deepening this thematic area.
The course therefore intends to:
-provide a synthetic evolutionary framework of urban planning in relation to the phenomena of urban development, starting from the themes related to the contemporary city.
-provide theoretical notions for the understanding of the city, of the urban space, of the territory and of the landscape, as well as of the recent forms of urbanization dispersed in the territory;
- provide a first scenario of the history of the western city;
- provide specific tools for the analysis of the physical ingredients of human settlement;
-provide a first knowledge of the urban planning regulations in force;
-provide the basic knowledge of Geographic Information Systems and their application in the analysis of Urban and Territorial Systems.
Prerequisites:
Non è richiesto alcun tipo di prerequisito.
Teaching methods:
The course topics will be developed through:
• reception activities for the course carried out through a first classroom exercise on the ways of representing and reading the city and the territory;
• lectures on the course topics, carried out with the aid of slides made available to students;
• moments of confrontation on what is shown in the individual lessons;
• monographic exercise of analysis of the urban fabric of the historic center of Parma.
The exercise will be divided into two phases: the first related to the organization and acquisition of data also through surveys, photographs and inspections, the second concerning the analysis of the urban system carried out according to criteria identified by the teacher.
Addresses and methods for carrying out the exercise will be provided within the course.
During the lessons will be carried out verification and comparison activities necessary for the performance of the work.
The exercise can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Being a course of analysis will focus very much on developing students' ability to read urban environments, including through multidisciplinary solicitations and soliciting the acquisition of basic techniques of relief and representation (use of photography, approach to different cartographic sources, historical research documental and cartographic etc.) ..
The exercises will be carried out using the following software: Office and / or Open Office, Photoshop and / or Gimp for the processing of the cards that document the relevant work in the field; while Autocad or QuantumGis and / or ArcGis will be used for the elaboration of the thematic tables of final re-elaboration on urban areas.
For this purpose, within the course a specific training course is foreseen which will see a series of lessons in which the functions of the ArcGis software necessary to carry out the exercises will be illustrated.
Modality of verification of learning
Students will be assessed on the basis of the following educational tests:
• classroom exercises related to the contents of the lessons;
• monographic exercise of analysis of the urban fabric of the historic center of Parma;
• oral discussion on the work done: each student will have five minutes to describe a part of the work; the breakdown of the topics to be described by each student within the group is decided by the group itself;
• oral check on the topics covered in the course and in the basic texts.
N.B. The monographic analysis exercise of the urban fabric of the historic center of Parma will have to be delivered approximately one week before the date of the exam in which the students intend to take the exam; the exact date of delivery will be communicated on the course page with the necessary advance.
For each work group, the revisions with the teacher on the work done on the dates that will be established during the course are compulsory.
Bibliography
Basic texts:
Agostino Petrillo - Villaggi, Città, Megalopoli, 2006, Carocci Editore, Roma
Leonardo Benevolo - La fine della città, 2011, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari
Edoardo Salzano – Fondamenti di Urbanistica, 2003 – Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari
Manuale per chi opera in ambiente ArcGis:
Giovanni Biallo - Introduzione ai sistemi informativi geografici, 2005, MondoGIS, Roma
Testi consigliati:
Bernardo Secchi - La città del ventesimo secolo, 2005, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari
Massimo Cacciari - La città, 2004, Pazzini Editore
Le Corbusier, Maniera di pensare l’urbanistica, 1965 (1946), Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari
Francoise Choay, La città. Utopie e realtà, 1973 (1965), Einaudi, Torino
Lewis Mumford, La città nella storia, 3 voll. , 1977 (1961), Bompiani , Milano
Cesare e Augusto Mercandino, Storia del territorio e delle città d’Italia. Dal 1800 ai giorni nostri, 1976, Mazzotta, Milano
Guido Zucconi, La città dell’Ottocento, 2007, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari
Teaching methods
The course topics will be developed through:
• reception activities for the course carried out through a first classroom exercise on the ways of representing and reading the city and the territory;
• lectures on the course topics, carried out with the aid of slides made available to students;
• moments of confrontation on what is shown in the individual lessons;
• monographic exercise of analysis of the urban fabric of the historic center of Parma.
The exercise will be divided into two phases: the first related to the organization and acquisition of data also through surveys, photographs and inspections, the second concerning the analysis of the urban system carried out according to criteria identified by the teacher.
Addresses and methods for carrying out the exercise will be provided within the course.
During the lessons will be carried out verification and comparison activities necessary for the performance of the work.
The exercise can be carried out individually or in small groups.
Being a course of analysis will focus very much on developing students' ability to read urban environments, including through multidisciplinary solicitations and soliciting the acquisition of basic techniques of relief and representation (use of photography, approach to different cartographic sources, historical research documental and cartographic etc.) ..
The exercises will be carried out using the following software: Office and / or Open Office, Photoshop and / or Gimp for the processing of the cards that document the relevant work in the field; while Autocad or QuantumGis and / or ArcGis will be used for the elaboration of the thematic tables of final re-elaboration on urban areas.
For this purpose, within the course a specific training course is foreseen which will see a series of lessons in which the functions of the ArcGis software necessary to carry out the exercises will be illustrated.
Assessment methods and criteria
Students will be assessed on the basis of the following educational tests:
• classroom exercises related to the contents of the lessons;
• monographic exercise of analysis of the urban fabric of the historic center of Parma;
• oral discussion on the work done: each student will have five minutes to describe a part of the work; the breakdown of the topics to be described by each student within the group is decided by the group itself;
• oral check on the topics covered in the course and in the basic texts.
N.B. The monographic analysis exercise of the urban fabric of the historic center of Parma will have to be delivered approximately one week before the date of the exam in which the students intend to take the exam; the exact date of delivery will be communicated on the course page with the necessary advance.
For each work group, the revisions with the teacher on the work done on the dates that will be established during the course are compulsory.
Other information
will be provided during the course
