Learning objectives
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Prerequisites
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Course unit content
Presentation of the course and exercises .
Introductory remarks on disciplinary themes of urban and regional analysis and planning.
Formation of groups and assigning exercise themes.
Illustration of the method of investigation for the exercises .
Urban primary and secondary investigations.
The cartographic information system for the urban investigations.
Natural and antrophic survey matrices.
Physical investigations.
Environment Analysis.
Social investigations: anthropogenic factors (demographic and social).
Social investigations: building factors.
Social investigations: kinematic factors (mobility ).
Investigations on landscape.
Investigations on historical evolution.
Elements of urban morphology: the urban fabric; polarizations of civil and religious interest; the outdoor.
Elements of urban fabric: simple and complex urban units.
Bibliography
Main texts
Columbo V., La ricerca urbanistica, Giuffrè, Milano, 1982.
Gabellini P., Tecniche urbanistiche, Carocci, Roma, 2001.
Mercandino A., Urbanistica Tecnica. Manuale per le indagini, le proiezioni, la diagnosi e il progetto, Ed. Sole 24 Ore, Milano, 2001.
Morbelli G., Un’introduzione all'urbanistica, F. Angeli, Milano, 1986.
Recommended readings
Busi R. e Zavanella L., La classificazione funzionale delle strade, EGAF Edizioni, Forlì, 2002.
Campos Venuti G. e Oliva F., Cinquant'anni di urbanistica in Italia: 1942-1992, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1993.
Choay F., La città. Utopie e realtà, Einaudi, Torino, 1973 (ed. or. 1965)
De Rossi et al. (a cura di), Linee nel paesaggio, UTET Università, Torino, 1999.
R. Krier, Lo spazio della città, Clup, Milano, 1982
Mumford L., La città nella storia, 3 voll., Bompiani , Milano, 1977 (ed. or. 1961).
Palermo P.C., Interpretazioni dell’analisi urbanistica, F. Angeli, Milano, 1992.
Roncayolo M., La città. Storia e problemi della dimensione urbana. Einaudi, Torino, 1988.
Secchi B., La città del ventesimo secolo, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2005.
Socco C., Città, ambiente, paesaggio, UTET Libreria, Torino, 2000.
Zucconi G., La città contesa: dagli ingegneri sanitari agli urbanisti (1885-1942), Jaca Book, Milano, 1989.
Topics covered by the course will be made explicit through educational materials in the form of further bibliographical and of slides and notes available in the web page.
Teaching methods
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Other information
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