B020377 - URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING LABORATORY I

italian

1-The city and Urbanism discipline: We retrace the important phases of the urban phenomenon development with the aim to better understand the character of the contemporary city and its mode of transformation.
2- The planning instruments: national and regional planning law.
3-The urban design: The main "Materials" of the Urban Project: green spaces, mobility, services, residential settlements, the Urban Regeneration methodologies

Testi Base

Calabi D. (2005), Storia della città. L’età contemporanea, Marsilio, Milano
Mumford L. (1997), La città nella storia, Bompiani, Milano
Secchi B. (2013),La città dei ricchi e la città dei poveri, Laterza, Roma-Bari
Selicato F. e Rotondo F. (2010), Progettazione Urbanistica, teoria e tecnica, Mc Graw-Hill , Milano
Salzano E. (1998), Fondamenti di urbanistica, Laterza, Roma-Bari
Di Paola F. (2008)Fondamenti di urbanistica. Teoria e storia, Aracne, Roma


Testi consigliati
Benevolo L. ((1982), Storia della città, Laterza, Roma-Bari
Cacciari M.(2004), La città, Pazzini Stampatore Editore, Villa Verrucchio (Rimini),
Edoardo Salzano , "Ma dove vivi ? La città raccontata" Ed.Corte del Fontego, Venezia 2007;
G. Fanelli, (1973) Firenze, Architettura e città, Valacchi Firenze;
Pirenne H. (1971), Le città del medioevo, Laterza, Roma
Sassen S.(2001),Le citta nell’economia globale, il Mulino, Bologna

Manuali
Gabellini P. (2001), Tecnica Urbanistica, Carocci editore,Roma
Mercandino A. (2006), Urbanistica tecnica. Pianificazione generale, Il Sole 24 ORE, Milano

PER CHI OPERA IN AMBIENTE GIS
Biallo G. (2002), Introduzione ai sistemi informativi geografici, in Quaderni di Mondo Gis, Roma.
Teti M.A (a cura, 2004), Sistemi Informativi geografici. Manuale casi studio città e territorio, F. Angeli, Milano

The Laboratory aims to provide theoretical and practical tools for the critical analysis of the urban phenomenon and the components of its system in order to understand the phenomena of transformation in place.
The student will be introduced to the sphere of implementation plans receiving a cultural and vocational training aimed at the urban design of detail and its methodologies in the two fundamental aspects:
Techniques and analytical tools;
  Design and representation.

The main topics of treatment, except that the final test, the project will cover the physical regeneration of the city, according to the most recent and suitable principles of Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Development.

Preparatry Matters

Structuring elements of the urban project, be they of environmental matrix than settlement matrix within a renewed union between plan and project.
From the relevant background that the town planning has built.
The lessons are developed through theoretical and methodological insights and are illustrated with real project references of European urban culture experiences, modern and contemporary.
The sequence argument contains three main themes articulated in various subjects, who will take turns to provide the necessary knowledge to carry out practical activities in the classroom and engage students in the final project examination.
Ideas, matters, principles of settlement and urban materials constitute the core of theoretical reflection in close connection with the project activity.


1-The city and Urbanism discipline:
Disciplinary basic vocabulary.
Representations and languages.
We retrace the important phases of the urban phenomenon development with the aim to better understand the character of the contemporary city and its mode of transformation.
Particular attention will be placed on the three main stages of development: urbanization around the nucleus (relating to the industrial city); suburbanization (creating urban hinterland and conurbations); disurbanization (sprawl training, relocation services and tertiary activities, polycentric cities, urban areas, land use).
Affirmation of new ethical principle of 'Sustainable Development' and the direct and indirect impact on cities; development of the principles of Urban Regeneration.

2- The planning instruments: national and regional planning law.
The urban planning tools in Tuscany LUR.
structural plan and Town Planning Regulations of Florence.
Methods, content and implementing technical standards of Florentine urban tools.
The quality of the plan: design, standards and urban indexes.


3-The urban design: The main "Materials" of the Urban Project: green spaces, mobility, services, residential settlements, productive activities; morphologies, measures.
Each component will be analyzed from a few historical references and contemporary examples in order to bring to light design rules, dimensions, locations, uses and meanings.
Methodologies and analysis of the urban fabric, preparatory action project; Site study, thematizations.
Principles and methodologies of Urban Regeneration, Urban Ecology and Sustainable Development.
Operations and general rules of urban planning. the implant design, urban structure.
Visual Design: Reading the compositional path of urban design.
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

The course topics are developed through:
- Introductory lessons of various topics of the course
- Classroom exercises concerning the content of lessons
- Monographic exercises
- Additional classes in
- Public discussion of monographic works submitted by students
- Review and coordination of their planning application.
Thematic seminars conducted by university lecturers also from other universities and external professionals

Premise
"Urban planning has strong and specific responsibilities in the aggravation of inequalities. We are facing a new urban question that is reason not secondary of the crisis that now through the major economies of the world "
So began Bernardo Secchi already from the cover of his latest book "The city of the rich and the city of the poor" published in 2013 in the series "antibodies" publisher Laterza.
Following its depth studies carried out for the project the Great Paris, the eminent town planner has clearly denounced the serious state of the urban systems both in Europe and worldwide by identifying punctually in the strong increase of social inequalities, a worrying how serious warning bell.
His words today, after the serious events of Paris and many other Islamist attacks in Europe, perpetrated by European citizens grown in the neighborhoods-ghetto-enclaves of the suburbs, seem far more truthful and recall us to a sense of responsibility.
The "Isotropic city" (ie a city with the same level of services and opportunities in all its parts) that Secchi proposes as a possible remedy, although it may seem a utopia, it is an invitation to re-read and re-organize "project materials "in relation to the new planning challenges that will be faced architects and urban planners in the near future.

The course topics are developed through:
- Introductory lessons of various topics of the course
- Classroom exercises concerning the content of lessons
- Monographic exercises
- Additional classes in
- Public discussion of monographic works submitted by students
- Review and coordination of their planning application.
Thematic seminars conducted by university lecturers also from other universities and external professionals

Intermedia Verification
At the end of the first semester will be made a preliminary verification to the final exam.
Students must submit a brief search on a monographic project Urban Regeneration, previously agreed with the teacher.
Deadline would be:
1. The classroom exercises carried out in the semester
2. an analysis report with a critical judgment based on specific indicators on the topic agreed;
3. a presentation in pawer point

Each work will be screened in the classroom and used as a case study in a group discussion aimed at enriching the cultural and cognitive baggage of the whole class, useful experience project to be held in the second half.

Final test

The final exam will focus on the implementation of a project in one of the "processing areas" identified by the Town Planning Regulations of Florence choice among those selected. The project will have on the scale of an Master Plan and will follow in part the provisions specified by the Municipality, vary depending on the workload balancing for the various groups. The project must be drafted according to the principles of the Urban Regeneration and must include a reorganization of the system of public spaces with particular attention to the infrastructure green analyzed the urban area. During the examination will be also be tested knowledge of the topics covered during the course.
The exam will be a moment of confrontation, as much as possible public, even of critical self-assessment, on the projects presented by the students.