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LABORATORIO DI PROGETTAZIONE URBANISTICA M - Z

Academic Year 2024/2025 - 3° Year
Teaching Staff: Luca BARBAROSSA
Credit Value: 12
Scientific field: ICAR/21 - Urban and landscape planning
Taught classes: 48 hours
Laboratories: 96 hours
Term / Semester: One-year

Expected Learning Outcomes

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the urban planning discipline by providing theoretical, methodological, and technical basis for interpreting the analysis of urban and territorial phenomena. It aims to guide students in understanding existing regulatory frameworks and in practicing urban design, broadening their perspective beyond building architecture to include comprehensive rational urban planning.

The proposed method seeks to understand the complexity of urban phenomena, highlighting how the form of the city and its public spaces is the result of the ongoing, often conflicting, multiple collective actions. This method emphasizes on the complexity of the urban environment, rather than focusing on singular parts or fabrics.

After a fisrst training through lectures on the theoretical foundations of urban planning and design, , students will move on to drafting basic exercises involving the reading and interpretation of different urban areas. In the second part of the course, a plan will be developed according with the hypotheses previously illustrated, framed within a strategy, defining scenarios, and proposing solutions to spatial problems identified during the analysis phase

 

 

Course Structure

The course will be developed as follows: lectures, design workshops, seminari, field trips and educational visits. A final workshop may be scheduled to facilitate the end of the design activities.

Required Prerequisites

Having successfully passed the follow examinations: Istituzioni di matematiche, Diritto del governo del territorio and Laboratorio di Composizione architettonica 2.

Attendance of Lessons

in order to sit the final exam , it is necessary to acquire at least 70% attendance of the lectures

Detailed Course Content

The course content is articulated in line with its objectives.
In the first part of laboratory lesson are dedicated to the analisys of the urban and territorial system, the relations that link urban and territorial trasformations to the theories and the tools of urban planning.
In the second part of the course, frontal lessons are dedicated to the “discovery” of the urban phenomenon in its actuality and to the transmission of the tools of the urban analysis in already
urbanized areas with different characteristics: historic fabrics, recent suburbs, urban sprawl. In the third part of the course the focus is on the conceptual definition of Urban design making reference to the culture of the most important European countries and, in particular, to Italy and France.
The dynamics of elaboration, production and governance of urban design are put in evidence through the study and analysis of some case studies. The design experience is developed on an area of adequate dimensions and position within a urban system of one or more Sicilian cities and leads to the elaboration of the urban design.

Textbook Information

1. AA.VV., Cerdà. Città e territorio, Institut d’Estudis Territorials – Università di Catania, Barcellona, 2002. [5-8, 13-14, 18-25]

2. G. ASTENGO, voce Urbanistica, Enciclopedia universale dell’arte

3. G. DATO (a cura di), L'urbanistica di Haussmann: un modello impossibile?, Officina, Roma 1995. [7-34]

4. G. DEMATTEIS, C. LANZA, Le città del mondo. Una geografia urbana, UTET, Torino, 2011, cap. 2 pp. 35-56 e cap. 3 pp. 57-81, cap. 11, pp. 179 – 203 e cap. 13 pp. 217 - 225

5. P. GABELLINI, Tecniche urbanistiche, Carocci, Roma, 2001

6. B. GABRIELLI, Il recupero della città esistente : saggi 1968-1992, Etas libri, Milano, 1993, [257-272]

7. K. LYNCH, Progettare la città. Milano, Etaslibri, 1990

8. P. INGALLINA P. (2001) Il progetto urbano, Franco Angeli, Milano, cap. 1, pp. 29 – 63

9. D. MANGIN, Ph. PANERAI, Projet urbain, Editions Parenthèses, Marseille, 1999, cap. 4 pp. 83 – 100 e cap. 7 pp. 139 – 162.

10. S. MUNARIN, V. MARTELLIANO (a cura di), Spazi, storie e soggetti del welfare. Sul ruolo delle politiche del welfare state nella costruzione della città, Gangemi Editore, Roma, 2012. pp. 9 - 24, 75 - 88, 131 - 142.

11. F. C. NIGRELLI, Percorsi del Progetto urbano in Francia e in Italia 1960-1997, Officina Edizioni, Roma, 1999, cap. 4, pp. 212 -241, conclusioni pp. 271 - 281

12. Ph. PANERAI, J. CASTEX, J. DEPAULE, Isolato urbano e città contemporanea, CittàStudi, Milano, 1981

13. C. RATTI con M. CLAUDEL, La città di domani. Come le reti stanno cambiando il futuro urbano, Giulio Einaudi editore, Torino 2017, cap. 1 pp. 5 – 12, cap. 2 pp. 13 – 19, cap. 3 pp. 20 – 29, cap. 4 pp. 33 – 40, cap. 5 pp. 41 – 50, cap. 7 pp. 65 - 74

14. M. RONCAYOLO, La città. Storia e problemi della dimensione urbana, Einaudi, Torino, 1988, cap. 1 pp. 11 – 24, cap. 2 pp. 25 – 39, cap. 4 pp. 55 - 66

15. B. SECCHI, Prima lezione di Urbanistica, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2000

16. B. SECCHI, La città dei ricchi e la città dei poveri, Laterza Editore, Bari, 2013

17. B. ZANON, Territorio, ambiente, città. Vol. I: Temi, esperienze e strumenti dell’urbanistica contemporanea, Alinea Editrice, Firenze, 2008

 

Further readings – a selected bibliography:

18. AA.VV. Projets urbains en France, Le Moniteur, Paris, 2002

19. P. COLAROSSI e A.P. LATINI, La progettazione urbana. Vol. 2, ilSole24ore, Milano, 2008, cap. 4 pp. 433 – 473, cap. 5 pp. 475 – 566

20. P. COLAROSSI e A.P. LATINI, La progettazione urbana. Vol. 3, ilSole24ore, Milano, 2008, cap. 3 pp. 94 – 158

21. Ch. DEVILLERS, “Il progetto urbano”, in in Rassegna di Architettura e urbanistica, “Progetto urbano in Francia”, n. 110/111, ed. Kappa, Roma 2003, pp. 43-54

22. F. D’ORSO, Ecoquartiers, t. 2, ed Snal, Paris, 2014

23. B. HUET, “Il progetto urbano e la storia” in Rassegna di Architettura e urbanistica, “Progetto urbano in Francia”, n. 110/111, ed. Kappa, Roma 2003, pp. 38-42

24. P. LA GRECA, Interventi nella città consolidata: casi francesi e italiani a confronto. Documenti del DAU n. 14, Gangemi Editore, Roma, 1996

25. C. MORENO, Vie urbaine et proximité à l’heure du Covid-19, Et Après? n. 30, Éditions de L'Observatoire, Paris, 2020

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