The course includes the study of the principles and operational foundations of the urban planning discipline as a specific field of public policies. To this end, the course presents urban planning according to an evolutionary model, from its origins up to the most recent era, where it assumes a more integrated profile even with respect to current challenges. The course also includes an exercise that will engage the students in analyzing and designing the transformations of an urban area.
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Learning Objectives - Last names H-Z
The course aims at providing knowledge relating to the theoretical principles, operational categories and tools that define urban planning, and the more general area of territorial governance, as a specific field of policies with a strong interdisciplinary character and with a differentiated regulatory character. To this end, the course will provide students with the technical and operational tools to deal with all the analytical / interpretative and planning / regulatory phases for the preparation of documents referring to a specific urban context subject to an urban transformation intervention.
Prerequisites - Last names H-Z
The student must have taken the course “Territory and Settlement Analysis” of the 1° year.
Teaching Methods - Last names H-Z
The teaching will be organized according to a mixed modality of lectures and interaction activities with the students referred to the interpretative restitution of some texts of the main exponents of the urban culture of the twentieth century. This activity will be accompanied by the setting up and carrying out of an assisted exercise relating to a specific context of urban transformation.
Further information - Last names H-Z
The exercise will focus on a specific urban sector on the outskirts of Florence characterized by urban / functional and environmental criticalities. The exercise will be carried out in a group and will include, if made possible by the health situation, a survey on the area. Students will be asked to draw up both basic reading of the context and interpretative and planning documents.
Type of Assessment - Last names H-Z
The final text will be a discussion about the theoretical contents presented during the semester and the results of the design exercise on the study area.