Learning objectives
The course aims to give the student the basic tools of urban planning and regeneration, in particular through the critically aware comparison of the main design techniques. The student will be led to explore, also with guided exercises, the categories of landscape and urban design, and to highlight the relationship between the architectural project and the urban one, with attention to the size of settlements, both in terms of population density and of the built environment, and in the proportioning of collective spaces.
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
The course is divided into two parts. The first covers the fundamental contributions of some analytical disciplines to the disciplines of urban design and planning. The second part, which has a technical and compositional nature, is dedicated to the contents and methods of organization and configuration of the city, extended to the control of the functions, of the urban morphologies up to the dialogue with the architectural typologies and to the conception of the road network in operation. of the mobility system and vice versa.
Full programme
1 THE STUDY AND THE DESIGN OF THE CITY
Interpretative lines
New city and city founded: The Middle Ages. The modern and contemporary era
2 THE DISTINCTIVE DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERS
Site and location
Urbanism and urbanization. The mega-urbanization of the 21st century. Modes of urban development. The settlement densities. The informal city
Decline and contraction: Definitions. Main causes of shrinkage
3 THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES OF THE CITY
The functions: The central functions. Global market
Social activities: The spatial distribution of phenomena. Private sphere and neighborhood unity. Types of social and ethnic segregation. Critique of functionalist town planning
4 ECONOMIC MOTIVES AND CONTENTS OF TERRITORIAL AND URBAN PLANNING
Economic planning and programming: Implications of economic planning in urban planning. Implications of urban planning in economic choices. Roles of the economist and town planner
Urban and territorial planning: Contents of the plan. Implementation and management. The preliminary analyzes
Urban planning: Art and technique. Evaluation procedures. City construction and transformation as a process
5 CITY IDEAS
Megastructures or the praise of technology
The issue of sustainability: Eco-districts and eco-cities. Degrowth and localisms
The city-architecture: Continuity with the avant-garde of the modern movement. Hybridization. Traditionalism
6 THE NODES AND THE JOINT OF THE URBAN PLANT
Viability: Primary geometry lattices. Radiocentric lattices. Complex lattices with mixed matrices
The urban block: Dimensional parameters. Types and shape. Methods of construction. Functional aspects and settlement capacity
7 URBAN MOBILITY
Traffic regulation and planning
Ecology, urban mobility and the shape of the city: Compaction of settlements. Location of the main mobility nodes. Specialization of traffic by traffic categories
8 THE MULTIPLE STRUCTURE OF THE CITY
Specialization and spatial separation
The residential units. l sizing. The aggregation
The higher order polarities
The retail distribution network: Main types. The shopping centers
9 THE VERTICAL CITY
The tall building: Prototypes (1870-1893). City Beautiful and Art Deco: from the late 19th century to the Second World War. International Style: postwar until the mid-seventies. World diffusion and stylistic Neo-eclecticism: after the Eighties.
The specialized cluster: The main American experiences. Paris and the edge city of La Défense. Other post-war experiences
10 THE GREEN SYSTEM
The modern movement and the City Beautiful legacy
Interpretive categories
11 CITIES WITH CHARACTERIZING FUNCTIONS
The factory city: Prototypes and utopias, Company towns in the nineteenth century. The Italian experience between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Mass industrialization. The technopoles
the myth of Arcadia: The Garden City, Eco and agri-villages.
Leisure: Towns and holiday villages. Luna Park. City for the elderly
Capitals: The legacy of absolutism. In search of a new identity. The capitals of modern and postmodernism.
Bibliography
New Urban Agenda, Quito 2016
http://habitat3.org/wp-content/uploads/NUA-English.pdf
Teaching methods
Lectures and related design exercises
Assessment methods and criteria
Learning will be verified through a final written and oral exam on the topics of the course. Students will have the faculty to develop a 1/5000 scale urban regeneration or renewal project on an urban sector of at least 100 hectares
Other information
Educational material on the Urban Planning, Landscape and Territory website http://www.urbanistica.unipr.it/
