LABORATORIO DI PROGETTAZIONE URBANISTICA

Course objectives

URBAN PLANNING STUDIO The course provides the theoretical, pragmatic and procedural tools for drafting a project to manage the contemporary city, territory and environment.The students will be able to understand the relationships among objectives, strategies and spatial solutions, the relationships between local structures and territorial visions and relationships among plan, urban design, quantities and rules.The training objective is to manage the complexity of territorial transformations in the integrated construction of new morphological structures.

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PAOLO GALUZZI Lecturers' profile
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ANDREA IACOMONI Lecturers' profile
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Saverio Santangelo Lecturers' profile
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FRANCESCO CRUPI Lecturers' profile

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Course program
Objectives The Course provides basic knowledge relating to the theories, techniques, design tools and regulatory apparatus of the urban planning discipline necessary for the construction of a project for the governance of the contemporary city, the territory and the environment. In this perspective, the course addresses and deepens the theme of the complexity of the city and contemporary territories through a reading of the physical and functional transformation processes that occur in the anthropic space in order to introduce students to the design of large-scale space, and them to deal with the composition of urban "materials". In recent decades, the settlement, morphological and functional models, the tendency towards metropolisation of the territory, the problems relating to ecological-environmental assets, the dynamics of economic and social transformation, present a complexity and fragmentation such as to require an innovative, inter-scalar and integrated able to grasp together with local specificities, overall visions, and to restore effectiveness and efficiency to planning choices. Starting from these premises, the general objective of the course is to provide the theoretical-methodological and operational tools for the construction of the "Urban Project", intended as a procedure aimed at defining new morphological structures and bringing coherence to relevant interventions urban, with reference to contexts potentially subject to significant transformations, both through a verification of the environmental, morphological, infrastructural, economic-financial and regulatory feasibility, and through the identification of the contribution of the subjects and operators involved. Structure and content The course includes both theoretical-definitional lessons which aim to introduce the topic in the current theoretical-disciplinary debate, highlighting the main elements of reflection and innovative features, and a part of design exercise aimed at applying knowledge theoretical knowledge acquired within a specific area of study. The themes dealt with in the theoretical-definitory lectures will emphasize the fundamental aspects of urban planning with particular reference to issues relating to the disciplinary evolution, the legal-regulatory framework, social, environmental and landscape issues, the new disciplinary contents (sustainability ecological-environmental, resilience, energy transition, requalification / regeneration, etc.), the new equitable operational references (equalization, compensation, etc.), the strategies and actions necessary for the construction of the public city. During the course, in addition to the most significant planning experiences developed in other countries, some local planning experiences gained in the last 25 years in our country strongly characterized in terms of disciplinary progress, the significance of the method and the design structure will be analyzed, through the projection of images and filmed documents in the classroom. The theme of the redevelopment of the periphery will be addressed through the experimentation of a planning method that introduces, in an iterative and inter-scaling logic, a path marked by successive levels and phases of study. The study area coincides with the 10th Municipality of the Municipality of Rome. The methodological structure underlying the exercise configures a three-level process, which correspond to different reading scales and intervention tools. 1. Master development plan 2. Local plan 3. Urban project The methodological process assumes, for each level, a theoretical subdivision into four main phases, which are also highly interactive: cognitive deepening; interpretation-evaluation; the clarification of the objectives; the identification and coherence of strategies and actions for the pursuit of objectives. Each phase also uses an approach based on systems, environmental system, settlement-morphological system, system of services and infrastructures, planning system, in turn divided into components. The course will specifically develop the third level of the methodological structure.
Prerequisites
Motivation, curiosity and interest in a pragmatic and critical approach to the urban project. Possession of computer skills related to the graphic representation of the project. Aptitude to study in a group.
Books
AAVV (2013), El centro en otro lugar? Centralidades urbanas, polaridades territoriales, in Ciudades, n.16. Alexander C. (1964), Notes on the Synthesis of Form, Cambridge, Mass., (trad. it. Note sulla sintesi della forma, Il Saggiatore, Milano, 1967). Bernoulli H. (1946), Die Stadt und ihr Boden, Erlenbach, Zürich. (trad. it. La città e il suolo urbano, a cura di L. Dodi, Vallardi, Milano, 1951). Borja, J., Muxi Z. (2003) El espacio publico: ciudad y ciudadanìa, Electa, Barcellona. Cullen G. (1961), Townscape, The Architectural Press, London. (trad. it. Il paesaggio urbano. Morfologia e progettazione, Calderini Editore, Bologna, 1976). EC (2007) Commission Staff Working Document, State Aid Control and Regeneration of Deprived Urban Areas. EC (2013), Green Infrastructure Strategy, Bruxelles. EC (2019), The European Green Deal. Geddes P. (1915), Cities in Evolution, Williams & Norgate Ltd, London 1949 (nuova ed. riv.). Hall P. (1988), The cities of tomorrow, Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Howard E. (1898), Tomorrow, a peaceful path to real reform, Swan Sonnenschein, London. Il testo è stato ristampato nel 1902 con il titolo Garden Cities of to-morrow; (trad. it. L'idea della città giardino, Calderini, Bologna, 1962). Le Corbusier (1946), Manière de penser l’urbanisme, Editions de l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, Paris, (trad. it. Maniera di pensare l'urbanistica, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1965). Lynch K. (1960), The Image of the City, Mit Press, Cambrige-London, (trad. it. L’immagine della città, Marsilio, Padova, 1964, traduzione di C.G. Guarda). Masboungi, A. (2012), Projets urbains durables: strategies, Moniteur, Parigi. Mc Loughlin J.B. (1973), La pianificazione urbana e regionale, Marsilio, Padova. Mumford L. (1961), The city in History, Harcourt, Brace & Co, New York (trad. it. La città nella storia, comunità, Milano, 1963). Poëte M. (1929), Introduction à l'urbanisme. L'évolution des villes. La leçon de l’antiquité, Boivin Paris, (trad. it. La città antica. Introduzione all’urbanistica, Einaudi, Torino 1958). Sitte C. (1889), Der Städtebau nach seinen künstlerischen Grundsatzen, Carl Graeser Verlag, Wien, (trad. it. L'arte di costruire le città, L'urbanistica secondo i suoi fondamenti estetici, Vallardi, Milano, 1953). UNFCCC (2015), Paris Agreement. UN-HABITAT (2010), State of the World’s Cities 2010/2011. Bridging the Urban Divide, London. UNISDR (2012), How to make cities resilient. UN (2015), 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Teaching mode
The modality of the course will be of the traditional type / and at a distance with lessons and reviews for groups of students. All the lessons, both theoretical and operational ones, will be available, together with further teaching materials on the e-learning portal.
Frequency
Attendance at the Course is compulsory for 70% of the classroom hours set by the calendar.
Exam mode
Final examination will be oral and will focus on the themes you have dealt with during the lessons with a theoretical and defining character and on the case of study you have taken into exam. The mark will be based on evaluation principles which refer to: verification of knowledge and theoretical acquired principles, attendance, quality and pertinence of proposed project contents, graphic quality. At the end of the exams, a copy of the projects considered most interesting may be requested.
Bibliography
AAVV (2013), El centro en otro lugar? Centralidades urbanas, polaridades territoriales, in Ciudades, n.16. Borja, J., Muxi Z. (2003) El espacio publico: ciudad y ciudadanìa, Electa, Barcellona. EC (2007) Commission Staff Working Document, State Aid Control and Regeneration of Deprived Urban Areas. EC (2013), Green Infrastructure Strategy, Bruxelles. EC (2019), The European Green Deal Masboungi, A. (2012), Projets urbains durables: strategies, Moniteur, Parigi. UN (2015), 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development UNFCCC (2015), Paris Agreement. UN-HABITAT (2010), State of the World’s Cities 2010/2011. Bridging the Urban Divide, London. UNISDR (2012), How to make cities resilient. WCED (1987), Our Common future.
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CARMELINA BEVILACQUA Lecturers' profile

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Course program
The course aims to provide students with a deep understanding of the new methods of organizing, planning and managing urban transformations. Urban areas are complex and dynamic systems. They reflect the numerous processes of physical, social, environmental and economic changes. The general framework of the urban planning project will concern the understanding of how urban regeneration builds a vision of integrated transformations based on specific actions that lead to the resolution of "urban issues" and that seek to achieve a lasting improvement in economic, physical, social and environmental conditions. The focus will be on the technical contents of the urban regeneration mechanisms and on the construction of transformation as a contemporary urban design. The practical work conducted in the class aims at declining the urban regeneration tools envisaged by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan in a specific urban context: the Integrated Urban Plan pursued in the suburbs of Metropolitan Cities and the Innovative Housing Quality Program aimed at implementing integrated interventions for sustainable development. By experimenting with the two tools envisaged by the PNRR, urban regeneration assumes a pilot role in activating resilient transition processes in response to the effects of climate change and the economic and social shocks that the city encounters more frequently. Based on this introductory note, the objectives are: 1. Provide adequate knowledge of the new contexts of urban planning concerning the scenarios that arise in response to social, economic and environmental changes. 2. Provide strategic control tools for urban transformation through the acquisition of adequate skills in the construction of vision, according to the strategic approach, in response to changes in the demand for urban transformations, related to environmental, social and economic shocks. 3. Provide the tools for the construction of the contemporary urban project as an interpretative synthesis of the demand for urban transformation declined in places of the city within a general framework of strategic and structural coherence. 4. Provide the knowledge elements regarding technological and digital innovation to implement transitions toward a post-carbon economy and healthier housing conditions. The course is articulated in 4 parts, according to the four educational objectives: 1. New contexts of urban planning - Planning theory and public policy analysis: why urban planning implies the need for public policy analysis. What does "public policy analysis" mean? How does a public policy action in the urban plan? - Urbanization and urban development processes: Urban growth vs. urban regeneration - regulation of land use (zoning, functional and social mixitè), forms of public-private partnership; - The effects of globalization on the morphological and functional organization of the city; 2. Strategic approach to urban regeneration processes - Land regulation and real estate the relationship between plan regulation and strategic plan producing shared vision and partnership processes; - The analysis of the complexity in the contemporary city - The translation of the analysis into design drivers at different scales, at different decision levels - Urban regeneration and urban resilience strategies: the concept of urban vulnerability, risk and actions to mitigate and control urban performance. 3. The contemporary urban project - Evolution of the urban design: from the great urban design of the 70-the 80s to the urban design as an implementation tool for the urban planning of urban transformations - Phases of the project, interpretation of the context, design of the transformations - Urban quality control: the settlement matrix, the ecological matrix and the relational matrix 4. Technological progress and organization of the city - innovation spaces - Urban transformations in the digital era.
Prerequisites
According to the "Regolamento didattico del Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Architettura a ciclo unico (classe LM-4 CU)", Urban Planning I and Urban Planning II are compulsory to take the Urban Planning Laboratory. Therefore, it is assumed that the student, at the beginning of the course, has acquired the basic knowledge relating to the Fundamentals of urban planning and urban design, as well as the technical skills in terms of analytical interpretation of urban phenomena and in terms of project, design in response to the identification of intercepted needs.
Books
Roberts P., Sykes H. Granger R. “Urban Regeneration” SECOND EDITION - SAGE Publications Ltd, 2016. L. Ricci, C. Mariano “@22Barcelona: a smart neighbourhood in a Smart City” TECHNE Special Issue 01, 2018. Ricci L., “Governare la Città contemporanea. Riforme e strumenti per la rigenerazione urbana / Governing contemporary cities: reform and measures promoting urban regeneration”, in Urbanistica n. 160/2017. References Sassen S. Expulsions Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy ARQUITECTURA VIVA 2014. Boni A.L. ZeviA.T. “Next Generation EU" Cities Ledizioni, 2022. Eraydin A. • Taşan-Kok T. Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning 2013.
Frequency
The lessons and exercises will be held according to the class schedule. Attendance is required
Exam mode
Carry out the laboratory work and show the documents produced during the course are necessary for the final exam. The exam consists of verifying the level of knowledge of the topics and the presentation of the work done. Two midterm exams are required, which consist of discussing presentations (e.g. PowerPoint) on specific topics addressed during the course.
Lesson mode
The course responds to two fundamental learning needs: the ability to set a clear reference framework in which the urban design respects the guidelines of complexity and innovation, the ability to decline the urban design according to specific supporting themes: the governance of urban transformations in the light of the changing social demand for services; the morphotypological design of urban transformations in various consolidated and peripheral contexts. This course is based on the New PRG of the Municipality of Rome, approved in 2008, which represents the emblematic framework for the disciplinary debate on the new urban question and the challenges of the contemporary city. Through the experimentation of the formal and operational construction of the two tools provided by the PNRR, the city is considered the expression of the social and political organization in changing urban areas. This approach allows experimenting with the interpretative methods of complex systems according to the morphotypological, relational and functional aspects of the city combined with the transformation of social demand according to new performance configurations of the public services requested. On the other hand, to test the multiple forms of innovation that meet likewise in the management and governance of urban phenomena. The lessons are theoretical, technical and operational. They aim at cultivating knowledge in the context of urban regeneration initiatives structured according to a multidisciplinary and multiscalr approach that includes both the study of control variables for the quality of the urban form and the factors that determine social sustainability, economic and environmental interventions in a framework strongly oriented to the understanding of urban regeneration as a public action for the integrated structure of the city. The course includes lectures and intermediate verification activities through presentations of topics covered during the class. Presentations will be discussed in class.
  • Lesson code1044251
  • Academic year2024/2025
  • CourseArchitecture
  • CurriculumSingle curriculum
  • Year4th year
  • Semester1st semester
  • SSDICAR/21
  • CFU8
  • Subject areaProgettazione urbanistica e pianificazione territoriale