B020377 - URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING LABORATORY I

Italian (Erasmus students will be personally tutored in English during the first weeks)

Italian

The course covers the fundamental knoledge on urbanism such as:
- the interctive and processual nature of the urbanism;
- the critical view on opportunities and needs of cities, territories and societies at different scales;
-the understanding of the key planning instruments in use, and the regulatory and legislative tools.

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

Mandatory readings (for all students)

Lanzani A. (2015), “Città territorio urbanistica tra crisi e contrazione. Muovere da quel che c'è, ipotizzando radicali”, Franco Angeli, Milano.
Gaeta L., Janin Rivolin U., Mazza L. (2013), Governo del territorio e pianificazione spaziale, Utet (un capitolo a scelta della PARTE QUARTA)

Mandatory readings for all students (one of a choice)

Enciclopedia Treccani, L’Italia e le sue regioni, Vol II, Della grande trasformazione del paesaggio, di Arturo Lanzani - Matteo Bolocan Goldstein - Federico Zanfi, pp. 291-312.
Brenner N. (2016) (.), Guerini, Milano
Dematteis G. (2011 – a cura di), Le grandi città italiane. Società e territori da ricomporre, Marsilio, Venezia (capitoli 1,2,6,9,10,11).
Di Biagi P. (2002 - a cura di), I classici dell’urbanistica moderna, Donzelli, Roma.
Gabellini P. (2010), Fare Urbanistica, Carocci, Roma.
Magnaghi A. (2010), “Progetto locale”,
Paba G. (2010), Corpi urbani, differenze, interazioni e politiche, Franco Angeli.

Optional Readings
Fini G. (2016), Bernardo Sechi. Il futuro si costruisce giorno per giorno. Riflessioni su spazio, società e progetto, Donzelliù
Mazza L. (2015), Spazio e Cittadinanza. Politica e governo del territorio, Donzelli, Roma.
Geta L., Janin Rivolin U., Mazza L. (2013), Governo del territorio e pianificazione spaziale, Utet, Torino.
Perrone C. (2011), Per una pianificazione a misura del territorio, Firenze University Press, Firenze.
Pileri P. (2015), Che cosa c’è sotto. Il suolo, i suoi segreti, le ragioni per difenderlo, altreconomia Edizioni,
Magnaghi A. ( cura di, 2014), La regola e il progetto. Un approccio bioregionalista alla pianificazione territoriale, Firenze University Press, Firenze.
Secchi B. (2013) La città dei ricchi e la città dei poveri, Laterza, Bari.
Secchi B. (2000) Prima lezione di urbanistica, Laterza, Bari.
Secchi B., Viganò P. (2011), La ville poreuse, Metis Presses, Paris.

basic texts

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


Recommended texts
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

Manual
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 activities are intended: - to make the students aware of the complexity of the discipline;
- to enhance their design attitude to grips with the identification of transformative strategies and / or the material definition of a settlement.

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.

Basic knowledge on urbanism

preparatory matters

The leraning/teching methods is peer-to-peer learning which consists of the tree following principles:
- ‘Students learning from and with each other in both formal and informal ways’
- The emphasis is on the learning process, including the emotional support that learners offer each other, as much as the learning task itself.
- Reciprocal peer learning emphasizes students simultaneously learning and contributing to other students' learning. Such communication is based on mutual experience and so they are better able to make equal contributions

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

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).

More resdings will be suggested by hte instructors while lecturing.

Premise
"Urbanism has strong and precise responsibilities in the worsening of inequalities. We are facing a new urban issue that isn't secondary causes of the crisis that now pass through the major country economies"
So begins Bernardo Secchi already from the cover of his latest book "the city of the rich and the poor" released in 2013 in the series "antibodies" published by Laterza.

Following his deepened studies developed for the project of the “Great Paris”, the eminent urbanist has clearly reported the serious state of the urban systems both Europeans and world, punctually individualizing in the strong increase of the social disparity, an worrisome and serious bell of alarm.
His words, today, after the serious facts of Paris and many other attacks of Islamic matrix happened in Europe, perpetrated by European citizens grown in the districts ghetto-enclave of the outskirts, they seem a great deal more truthful and they call us back to a sense of responsibility.

The "Isotropic city" (or a city with equal level of services and opportunity in all his part) that Secchi proposes us as possible remedy, even if it can seem an utopia, is an invitation to reread and to reorganize the "material of project" in relationship to the new planning challenges that architects and urbanists have to face in the immediate future.

- Individual or collective work (40%)
- Interactive learning in class (30%)
- Readings report (30%)

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.

Premise
"Urbanism has strong and precise responsibilities in the worsening of inequalities. We are facing a new urban issue that isn't secondary causes of the crisis that now pass through the major country economies"
So begins Bernardo Secchi already from the cover of his latest book "the city of the rich and the poor" released in 2013 in the series "antibodies" published by Laterza.

Following his deepened studies developed for the project of the “Great Paris”, the eminent urbanist has clearly reported the serious state of the urban systems both Europeans and world, punctually individualizing in the strong increase of the social disparity, an worrisome and serious bell of alarm.
His words, today, after the serious facts of Paris and many other attacks of Islamic matrix happened in Europe, perpetrated by European citizens grown in the districts ghetto-enclave of the outskirts, they seem a great deal more truthful and they call us back to a sense of responsibility.

The "Isotropic city" (or a city with equal level of services and opportunity in all his part) that Secchi proposes us as possible remedy, even if it can seem an utopia, is an invitation to reread and to reorganize the "material of project" in relationship to the new planning challenges that architects and urbanists have to face in the immediate future.



Main aims of the course

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.


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

Course content and teaching methodology:
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).


Intermediary verification
At the end of the first semester a compulsory verification to carrying out at the final examination.
The students must deliver a brief monographic research on a project of Urban Regeneration, previously agreement with the teacher.
They must present:
1. Classroom exercises done in the semester
2. an analysis report on the agreed topic accompanied by a critical judgment according to specific indicators;
3. a presentation in pawer point

Each work will be screened in the classroom and used as a case study in a collective discussion aimed at enriching the cultural and cognitive baggage of the entire class, useful for the design experience that will take place in the second semester.


Final test

The final exam will focus on the realization of a project in one of the "transformation areas" identified by the Florence Urban Planning, chosen among those selected. The project will have the scale of an Master Plan and will follow in part the forecasts specified by the Municipality, varied according to the balancing of the workload for each groups.
The project must be made according to the principles of Urban Regeneration and must provide a reorganization of the public system spaces with particular attention to the urban green infrastructure of the analyzed area. During the exam will also be verified the knowledge of the topics covered during the course.
The exam will be a moment of confrontation, as public as possible, even of critical self-valutation, on the projects presented by the students.