TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING
Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher:
SANTI DANIELE LA ROSA
Expected Learning Outcomes
The course aims to introduce the most relevant issues in Spatial Planning and guide students in understanding the profound changes in both the knowledge of spatial planning phenomena and the planning system that have occurred in Italy over the past decades, reflecting the most recent international cultural developments and national and regional regulations. The teaching activity aims to increase students' awareness of the complexity inherent in every planning process, in the transition from knowledge to action, both in relation to issues related to the physical transformation of places and to understanding the urban policy processes that govern them. The course addresses Spatial Planning as a set of methods for programming, designing, and managing the territory, aimed at the full and balanced use of resources.
Course Structure
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
Required Prerequisites
A preliminary knowledge of GIS software is recommended, which will be introduced during the course.
Attendance of Lessons
Students must formally register for the course and register on STUDIUM.IT. Attendance is strongly recommended for both lectures and the laboratory, particularly to ensure continuity of the exercises.
Students who have completed the analytical and design papers required to comprehensively define the assigned topic will be admitted to the final exam.
The exam consists of an oral test designed to assess general understanding of the topics covered, based on the teaching materials distributed during class.
Detailed Course Content
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
Textbook Information
- Presentations of the lectures
- 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.
Course Planning
| | Subjects | Text References |
|---|
| 1 | Basic concepts: land and planning | Lecture Slides |
| 2 | Definitions of cities, definitions of spatial planning (Astengo) | Lecture Slides |
| 3 | Planning and the public domain (Friedmann) | Lecture Slides |
| 4 | Territorial urban plans (synoptic framework). | Lecture Slides |
| 5 | The Sicilian Urban Planning Law (LR 19/2020) | Lecture Slides |
| 6 | PUG: Contents and Procedures | Lecture Slides |
| 7 | Tools for the territorial analysis of the plan: iconographies and cartographies | Lecture Slides |
| 8 | Urban/building parameters. Zoning and Standards | Lecture Slides |
| 9 | Areas protected by law and Landscape norms | Lecture Slides |
| 10 | Risks and Sustainable Development | Lecture Slides |
| 11 | Environmental Planning: Parks, Reserves and Protected AreasEnvironmental planning: Natura 2000 network, SCIs and SPAs | Lecture Slides |
| 12 | The landscape: definitions. Introduction to landscape planning: Legislative Decree 42/2004 (Urban Code) | Lecture Slides |
| 13 | Landscape Plan: Guidelines of the regional PTPRExamples of Landscape Plans for Sicily | Lecture SlidesThe Triangle Risk |
| 14 | Geographical Information Systems | Lecture Slides |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Basic concepts: land and planning
Technical urban planning vs continuous planning. The scientific approach
Planning, planning processes and the public domain (Friedmann)
Levels of spatial planning (synoptic framework).
The Sicilian Urban Planning Law (LR 19/2020)
Urban Plans (PUG): Contents and Procedures and examples
Tools for the territorial analysis of the plan: iconographies and cartographies
Urban/building parameters. Zoning and Standards
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
