Learning objectives
At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to:
- analyze and fully understand the relationship between Architecture and City in particular in the experience of the Italian and European cities (1st Dublin descriptor);
- apply the skills acquired in the context of the architecture and city project with reference to the contents (2nd Dublin descriptor);
- acquire a necessary and indispensable autonomy of critical (or self-critical) judgement on the architecture project including the reflection on social and ethical responsibilities declined with respect to the specific issues described in the Contents (3rd Dublin descriptor);
- to strengthen the communicative capacity within the framework of the architecture and city project to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors as well as the knowledge and reasoning underlying them, in particular with respect to the indications described in the Contents (4th Dublin descriptor).
- develop learning skills that allow students to continue studying mostly in a self-directed or autonomous way. (5th Dublin descriptor).
Prerequisites
The student is supposed to have a slight conscience in the field of urban planning, urban design, and procedures of urban analysis.
Course unit content
Urban planning and landscape analysis aimed at the architectural project. Theories of Landscape Urbanism are a special topic of the approch we teach.
Urban strategies explorations (plans, policies and projects) through the presentation of case studies related to soft mobility, regeneration of public space, landscape design in urban areas.
Full programme
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Bibliography
DESSÌ, V. (2007). Progettare il comfort urbano. Soluzioni per un'integrazione tra società e territorio. Napoli: Esselibri Simone.
HALL, P. (2014). Good cities, better lives: How Europe discovered the lost art of urbanism. London, New York: Routledge.
GEHL, J. (2017). Città per le persone (Trad. Cities for people. Washington: Island Press). Santarcangelo di Romagna: Maggioli.
NACTO (2016). Global Street Design Guide. New York: Nacto.
RINALDI B.M., TAN P.Y. (2019), Urban Landscapes in high-density cities, Basel: Birkhauser.
ROBERTS, P., SYKES, H., & GRANGER, R. (A cura di). (2017). Urban Regeneration (II ed.). London: SAGE Publications.
UNITED NATIONS. (2017). New Urban Agenda. (http://habitat3.org/wp-content/uploads/NUA-English.pdf).
WALDHEIM C. (2016), Landscape as Urbanism: a general theory, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Teaching methods
Lectures and studio
Assessment methods and criteria
See the general presentation of the CORE URBAN STRATEGIC SUSTAINABLE DESIGN STUDIO + WORKSHOP
Other information
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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development
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