TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING

• The course is aimed at providing students a set of analytical tools to analysing different features of city and territory and deliver a project on a specified area that is assigned at the begin of the Laboratory. During the Laboratorio students will analyse the assigned area with a set of traditional tools (land use maps) and more innovative techniques (land cover analysis).

• The course is structured in lectures, exercises and supplementary seminars. Lectures frame the relation between theoretical and technical issues that characterise spatial planning. Best practices will be offered in the supplementary lectures. During the project/exercise, students will be guided by teachers in a completing a set of assignments on urban analysis and design

Students must formally register to the course. The attendance is compulsory, both for lectures and the Studio. In the Studio, students will form work groups that will be constantly followed by teachers and tutors.

Below are specifically detailed some of the topics of the lessons:

Basic concepts: land and planning

Definitions of cities, definitions of spatial planning (Astengo)

Technical urban planning vs continuous planning. The scientific approach

Planning and the public domain (Friedmann)

Territorial urban plans (synoptic framework). 

The Sicilian Urban Planning Law (LR 19/2020)

PUG: Contents and Procedures

Tools for the territorial analysis of the plan: iconographies and cartographies

Urban/building parameters. Zoning and Standards

PUG: case studies

Sizing of a sector for residential construction

Areas protected by law

Risks and Sustainable Development

Environmental Planning: Parks, Reserves and Protected Areas

Environmental planning: Natura 2000 network, SCIs and SPAs

The landscape: definitions. Introduction to landscape planning: Legislative Decree 42/2004 (Urban Code)

Landscape Plan: Guidelines of the regional PTPR

Examples of Landscape Plans for Sicily

Geographical Information Systems

• Luca Gaeta, Umberto Janin Rivolin, Luigi Mazza (Autore), 2021, Governo del territorio e pianificazione spaziale, Città Studi Editore
• Friedman, J. (1993), Pianificazione e dominio pubblico. Dalla conoscenza all’azione, Dedalo, Bari
• Magnaghi, A. (2000), Il progetto locale, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino.
• Martinico F, Nigrelli FCN,(2008) I Piani Territoriali Paesaggistici della Provincia di Enna, Quaderni Urbanistica 53, INU.
  

• The final exam is an oral and presentation of the content of the given exercise , aimed at verifying the correct development of the project assignments

Basic concepts: land and planning

Definitions of cities, definitions of spatial planning (Astengo)

Technical urban planning vs continuous planning. The scientific approach

Planning and the public domain (Friedmann)

Territorial urban plans (synoptic framework). 

The Sicilian Urban Planning Law (LR 19/2020)

PUG: Contents and Procedures

Tools for the territorial analysis of the plan: iconographies and cartographies

Urban/building parameters. Zoning and Standards

PUG: case studies

Areas protected by law

Risks and Sustainable Development

Environmental Planning: Parks, Reserves and Protected Areas

Environmental planning: Natura 2000 network, SCIs and SPAs

The landscape: definitions. Introduction to landscape planning: Legislative Decree 42/2004 (Urban Code)

Landscape Plan: Guidelines of the regional landscape Plan

Examples of Landscape Plans for Sicily

Definitions and applications of Geographical Information Systems