UNIVERSITÀ’ DI CHIETI-PESCARA “G. D’ANNUNZIO”
DIPARTIMENTO DI ARCHITETTURA
Urban Planning Course 1
Prof. Massimo Angrilli
Course program
A.A. 20122/2023
Course objectives
The Urban Planning 1 course aims to provide students with the notions and tools to understand urban and territorial phenomena in their complexity and to interpret the relationships that bind the transformation processes of the city and the territory with theories and urban planning tools.
The course consists of two didactic modules and an exercise module, conducted in parallel and in close reciprocal relationship and propose a reading on several levels of the urban planning discipline, alternating moments of theoretical study with others of direct confrontation with practical experiences.
The course consists of two didactic modules and an exercise module, conducted in parallel and in close reciprocal relationship and propose a reading on several levels of the urban planning discipline, alternating moments of theoretical study with others of direct confrontation with practical experiences.
During the exam, the level of learning of the concepts dealt with in the course of the theoretical modules and in the reading of the texts indicated in the bibliography will be assessed through an individual oral exam, preceded by an intermediate test relating to the exercise module.
Didactic modules
1. Historical and theoretical foundations of urban planning
The first didactic module addresses the phases of the formation of the discipline by investigating the ways in which Urban Planning was formed and developed, starting from its first conceptual and theoretical elaborations up to the phases of consolidation as an autonomous discipline and as a recognizable field of professional practices.
In this module, reference will be made to a series of definitions and experiences, developed starting from the nineteenth century with which the meaning and role of urban planning has been clarified.
In particular, the socio-economic dynamics that led to the development of the modern city and the reforming and utopian ideas that contributed to the formation of a specific knowledge, that of urban planning, will be illustrated. Reference will be made to a body of theories from disparate sources, from urban utopias, from treatises on cities, from manuals, from scientific (and non-scientific) literature and from cinema. This module will illustrate some city models that have had a significant weight in the history of urban planning
2. Technical and legislative foundations of Urban Planning
The second module is dedicated to the reading and understanding of the fundamental elements of technical urban planning and reference will therefore be made, even with concrete examples, to traditional and recent urban planning tools with which territorial transformations are governed (PRG / PSC; PTC; complex programs.). Furthermore, some specific technical aspects will be addressed, such as urban parameters and indexes, building types, network infrastructures. Finally, concrete cases of urban planning will be analyzed, in order to understand the mechanisms of formation and implementation.
Exercise module
The exercise activities are aimed at making the student familiar with the main tools of analysis and critical interpretation of urban phenomena.
The activities will take place in the classroom, the students will have to participate assiduously by conducting the elaborations progressively and according to a program that will be established during the first lessons. The exercises will be applied to an urbanized area of the city of Pescara, which will be investigated under multiple profiles: physical, social, historical, legislative ... and with the aid of a series of support materials provided by the chair (Basic cartographies and thematic cartographies, maps and historical photos, consolidated descriptions, extracts of urban planning tools ...).
The objective of the exercise is to make the student acquire the ability to read and interpret the urban fabric and the characteristics of the context of intervention, and to allow the understanding of the urban planning tools that govern it.
Bibliography
Module I (Historical and theoretical foundations of Urban Planning)
Mandatory text
L. Benevolo, Le origini dell'urbanistica moderna, Laterza, Bari, 1963.
Suggested texts
G. Zucconi, La città contesa. Dagli ingegneri sanitari agli urbanisti (1885-1942), Jaca Books, Milano, 1989.
F. Choay, La città. Utopie e realtà, Einaudi, Torino, 2000.
Module II (Technical and legislative foundations of Urban Planning)
Mandatory text
P. Gabellini, Tecniche urbanistiche, Carocci, Roma, 2001. Cap. 4 e 5
4. Parametri e indici
5. Standard urbanistici
6. Zonizzazione
7. Esproprio
8. Perequazione urbanistica
10. Grandi riferimenti
10.1 La città compatta: l’Ensanche di Barcellona
10.2 La città per nuclei conclusi: la Garden City
10.4 La città distribuita linearmente: la Ciudad Lineal
10.7 La città estesa: Broadacre City
10.9 La città funzionale 2: la Ville Radieuse
Suggested texts
E. Salzano, Fondamenti di urbanistica, Laterza, Bari, 1998.
Gaeta L, Janin Rivolin U., Mazza L., Governo del territorio e pianificazione spaziale, Città Studi, Milano, 2013.
