Programme

Today cities appear as inhabited territories, they are increasingly "endless cities". Even Rome has now overflowed well beyond its administrative borders, we can speak of a City Region. We would like to question the territory of Rome and ask ourselves: what is the current “forma urbis” of Rome? The "great project" of Rome is to recognize its current "forma urbis". They are the "voids" not built but in reality full of values: agricultural, environmental (parks and reserves) and ecological. The soil, the water that in their intertwining with the territorial extension, the different densities of living, the signs of history that have deposited over time to give "shape to the current urban", the one that looks to the future.
We aim to give meaning to the complex of spaces, shapes, symbols that connote the city we live in from a historical-cultural and social point of view to help restore its “forma urbis”. Rehab, rewrite.

A first representation of Rome is given by the “built lumps” held together by the infrastructures, in continuous transformation, an overwriting on a text already written in part. While the expansion has proceeded by additions, now the growth can take place by stratification on the existing and is built on top of the already built.

Core Documentation

M. Cerasoli, Politiche ferroviarie, modelli di mobilità e territorio. Le ferrovie italiane nell'epoca della pseudo liberalizzazione. Aracne, Roma, 2012.

C. Amato, C. Ravagnan, Percorsi di Resilienza. Rilancio e riuso delle ferrovie in dismissione nei territori fragili tra Italia e Spagna. Aracne, Roma, 2020

Reference Bibliography

su Roma, i suoi piani e l’evoluzione urbana / about Rome, plans and urban development: I. Insolera, Roma moderna. Torino, Einaudi, 1993. P.O. Rossi, Roma, Guida all'architettura moderna, 1909-1984. Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1993 sull’urbanistica e l’evoluzione disciplinare / about urbanism and discipline evolution : G. Astengo, Voce “Urbanistica” dell’Enciclopedia Universale dell'Arte, Ist. Geograf. De Agostini, Novara 1984 (vol. XIV, pp. 541-642) Ivan Blecic , Arnaldo Cecchini, Verso una pianificazione antifragile. Franco Angeli. Milano, 2016 L. Benevolo, Le origini dell’urbanistica moderna, Laterza, 1967 L. Mazza, Trasformazioni del piano, Franco Angeli, 1997 G. Piccinato, Un mondo di città, Edizioni di Comunità, Torino, 2002 G. Piccinato, La costruzione dell’urbanistica 1871-1914, Officina, 1978 R. Pavia, Le paure dell’urbanistica. Meltemi edizioni, Genova, 2005 C. Ravagnan, Rigenerare le città e i territori contemporanei. Prospettive e nuovi riferimenti operativi per la sperimentazione. Aracne editrice, 2019 D. Wieczorek, Camillo Sitte e gli inizi dell’urbanistica moderna. Jaka Book, 1994 sulle tecniche / about techniques: M. Cerasoli, “Qualità urbana, mobilità, qualità della vita: una “grammatica” per il Rinascimento della città”. In: «URBANISTICA INFORMAZIONI», n° 263 S.I., sessione speciale n° 7 del 2015, pag. 16-19. C. Chiodi, La città moderna. Tecnica urbanistica, a cura di G. Sartorio, Roma 2006 P. Gabellini, Tecniche urbanistiche, Roma, NIS, 2001

Type of delivery of the course

The course will be followed a bidirectional and interlocutory iter between teachers and students, during which the theoretical themes of urban planning and those closely related to urban planning will be addressed. The core course of the course will consist of a series of meetings of verification and comparison, to allow a continuous exchange between the experiences progressively matured.

Attendance

Students must attend at the least the 75% of lessons to be admitted to the final exam.

Type of evaluation

To attend the exam, students must provide individually evidence of discipline elements acquired and, as a group, illustrate the product of their training during a collective exposure.