Urban transformation - the course area of interest - is faced in a way to convey to the students the most suitable attitudes and postures, excluding final and preordained solutions. The course aims to convey the skill to identify the policies in action in the urban transformations and how they shape the contemporary city. Identify means acquire the skill to distinguish the policies in elements, actors and actions. The students will face the instruments and the operative methods usually employed for the policies implementation; they will learn to build, with different way to examine in depth the specific policies addressed to the theme of transformation, limited to some selected themes: sharing, habitability, density/intensity.
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Part Two explores a wide array of regeneration policies and practices in European and North American contexts, that pay increasing attention to the quality of life at local level by intertwining affordable housing, local development and community empowerment issues. The case of the construction of local agendas also helps revisit a wide range of Italian urban and territorial policies, notably in reference to governance issues. Environment and biodiversity take in a major role, allowing to tackle welfare and wellbeing in urban and peri-urban areas.
Part Three, that will be developed alongside the previous parts, is devoted to a practical approach to a specific case study.
On the backdrop of the challenges awaiting the Municipality of Rome (Roma Capitale), the pilot will be Acilia-Dragona district along the Tiber River, marked by peculiar complex environmental, settlement and production problems, and contradictorily affected by general and sector planning tools forecasts.
Throughout the course's development, surveys, communications, seminars, and meetings with stakeholders will intertwine theoretical and practical narratives, highlighting syntonies and contradictions, negotiations and interference between top-down and bottom-up approaches witnessing the fluctuating interplay between the community and institutions.
Hall P., Good cities, better lives : how Europe discovered the lost art of urbanism, London New York, Routledge, 2013.
Insolera I., Roma moderna, Einaudi, Torino, 1962.
Palazzo A.L. (a cura di), Campagne urbane. Paesaggi in trasformazione nell’area romana, Gangemi, Roma, 2005.
Programme
Part One addresses the conceptual definition of public policies, introducing and critically discussing the distinction between policy and politics; the formulation of the problems that policies must deal with, and their putting 'on the agenda'; the coupling between problems and solutions; the nature and role of the actors that influence policy design in a multilevel governance framework and policy implementation, assessment and effects.Part Two explores a wide array of regeneration policies and practices in European and North American contexts, that pay increasing attention to the quality of life at local level by intertwining affordable housing, local development and community empowerment issues. The case of the construction of local agendas also helps revisit a wide range of Italian urban and territorial policies, notably in reference to governance issues. Environment and biodiversity take in a major role, allowing to tackle welfare and wellbeing in urban and peri-urban areas.
Part Three, that will be developed alongside the previous parts, is devoted to a practical approach to a specific case study.
On the backdrop of the challenges awaiting the Municipality of Rome (Roma Capitale), the pilot will be Acilia-Dragona district along the Tiber River, marked by peculiar complex environmental, settlement and production problems, and contradictorily affected by general and sector planning tools forecasts.
Throughout the course's development, surveys, communications, seminars, and meetings with stakeholders will intertwine theoretical and practical narratives, highlighting syntonies and contradictions, negotiations and interference between top-down and bottom-up approaches witnessing the fluctuating interplay between the community and institutions.
Core Documentation
Calzolari V., Storia e Natura come sistema, Argos, 1997.Hall P., Good cities, better lives : how Europe discovered the lost art of urbanism, London New York, Routledge, 2013.
Insolera I., Roma moderna, Einaudi, Torino, 1962.
Palazzo A.L. (a cura di), Campagne urbane. Paesaggi in trasformazione nell’area romana, Gangemi, Roma, 2005.
Reference Bibliography
Battaglini E., La negozialità territoriale dell’innovazione nell’era digitale. Generatività sociale come nuova prospettiva interpretativa?, Annali della Fondazione Di Vittorio, 2019. Calafati A., Economie in cerca di città, Donzelli 2009. Caroli M.G., Prezioso M., Roma metropolitana. Prospettive regionali e ipotesi cross-border d'area vasta, Franco Angeli, 2016. MIT, Dieci anni di governo delle complessità territoriali, 2008. Sennett R., Insieme. Rituali, piaceri, politiche della collaborazione, Feltrinelli, 2012. L E X I T Y Aristone O., Palazzo A.L. (a cura di), Forme del Periurbano. Suoli, usi, vocazioni, “Urbanistica Informazioni”, n. 269-270 e n. 271. Aristone O., Palazzo A.L., Né città né campagna. La nuova “Forma Città”, “Agriregionieuropa”, anno 12, n. 44, Mar 2016, pp. 7-9. Cao U., Il progetto della densità, “EcoWebTown”, n. 9, 2011. Duany A. (2002), Introduction to the Special Issue: The Transect, Journal of Urban Design, 7:3, 251-260. Gabellini P., Grandi questioni e rappresentazioni della città, “Urbanistica”, n. 156, 2016. Gambino R., La Convenzione europea del Paesaggio (CEP): dall’osservazione all’attuazione (datt.), ottobre 2015. Palazzo A.L., Citta, spazio e tempo. Traiettorie del progetto, “EcoWebTown”, n. 17, 2017. Russo M., Un nuovo orizzonte territoriale per il progetto urbanistico, “Urbanistica”, n. 156, 2016. Secchi B., Analisi territoriale, in Secchi B., Un progetto per l’urbanistica, Laterza, 1989. Secchi B., Attraversare il tempo, in Secchi B., Prima lezione di urbanistica, Laterza, 2004. Hölzer C., Hundt T., Lüke C., Hamm O.G., Riverscapes. Designing urban embankments, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2008. Otto B., Mc Cormick K., Leccese M, Ecological Riverfront Design. Restoring Rivers, Connecting Communities, American Planning Association, 2014.Type of delivery of the course
The subdivision of the module into didactic units makes it possible to check students' commitment and participation in carrying out the work. Therefore, the methodology consists of: frontal lectures, seminars with experts, teamwork aimed at critical readings commented in the classroom and at deepening ospontaneous and institutional dynamics occurring in the target area, on site visits. Attendance of the course is mandatory. In the event of an extension of the health emergency from COVID-19, all the provisions governing the methods of carrying out the didactic activities and students' assessment will be implemented. in particular, the following methods will be followed: oral exam interview.Attendance
mandatory attendance for 75%Type of evaluation
The final evaluation is related to the results achieved through the activities carried out during the year and to the ability to argue theoretical and methodological contents, with reference to exercises and seminars held during the year and to the recommended bibliography.