Urban and Regional Planning and Laboratory of GIS for Urban Planning A - L

Module Laboratory of GIS for Urban Planning

The “Laboratorio di Pianificazione Territoriale”, 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 laboratory is fully integrated with the “Pianificazione Territoriale” module.

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 Atelier, students will be guided by teachers in a completing a set of assignments on urban analysis and design.

Aims

The course aims at introducing the most relevant issues of Town and Regional Planning, following the more recent cultural evolution and national/regional legislations. The course introduces the different methods for planning and designing the territory with a sustainable use of natural resources. It is integrated with the Atelier “Laboratorio di Pianificazione Territoriale”, that is aimed at providing students a set of analytical tools to analysing different features of city and territory.

Structure of the course

The course is structured in frontal 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 Atelier, students will be guided by teachers in a completing a set of assignments on urban analysis and design.

Participation to the course

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

Final exam

Only students that have attended 70% (50% for worker student) of lectures and Studio will be admitted to the final exam. The final exam is an oral and group presentation of the content of the project, aimed at verifying the correct development of the project assignments.

Alcuni testi di riferimento vengono di seguito indicati:

• Astengo, G. (1966) Voce “Urbanistica”, Enciclopedia Universale dell’Arte.
• Clementi, A., Dematteis, G., Palermo, P.C. (a cura di) (1996), Le forme del territorio italiano, Laterza, Roma-Bari.
• Friedman, J. (1993), Pianificazione e dominio pubblico. Dalla conoscenza all’azione, Dedalo, Bari.
• Gambino, R. (1997), Conservare Innovare. Paesaggio, ambiente, territorio, UTET, Torino.
• Magnaghi, A. (2000), Il progetto locale, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino.
• Secchi, B. (2000), Prima lezione di Urbanistica, Laterza, Roma-Bari.
• Miceli E. (2011). La Gestione dei Piani Urbanistici. Perequazione, accordi, incentivi. Marsilio. Venezia

Students will be advised about recent scientific literature (mainly journal articles and book chapters, and other technical reference) on topic addressed by each project in the laboratory