The course would contribute to build a notion of space as a problematic intersection among shapes, living spaces, powers. It intends to stimulate skills about: - Modern and contemporary urban design tools and concepts; - Readings/interpretations of single places in urban space;

No previous technical knowledge is required. Of course a good studying method and personal skills in order to handle the topics will be helpful. Learning exercises will be more useful if students will have acquired the representation elements of the first semester courses.

I_International town planning traditions, national identities, model masterplans and urban projects; II_ A reading seminar, concerning basic references for the disciplinary field of urbanism and planning, or texts and interpretations that changed our collective awareness about city and territory; III_ The ruling aspects of town planning will be studied through their peculiar technicalities, as well as scales, indexes, parameters, also seen from an elementarist point of view. The purpose is to go further in the comprehension of the autonomous essence of the construction of the city and of the design principles (or, on the contrary, to pay attention to their limits and constraints). Some analytical aspects like plans, layering, and the critical use of photography will be introduced; IV_ Contemporary city and urbanization. The urban phenomena will be studied in their global consistence as well as in the specificity of the local contexts. Policies and urban designs are seen like overlapping acts, able to be studied in different times (3/5/10/30 years), as a critical result of the voluntary transformation of the human habitat.

L’organizzazione dell’insegnamento combina tipi differenti di eventi didattici. Alcune lezioni sviluppano i temi di base dell'urbanistica moderna e contemporanea, proponendo un discorso continuo tra una lezione e l’altra. Un secondo gruppo di lezioni prevede concise comunicazioni attinenti gli elementi della tecnica urbanistica, con riferimento alla redazione di un Rapporto di ricerca/Esercitazione, e alla loro implementazione. Un altro gruppo di comunicazioni è volto a illustrare in modo monografico alcuni piani esemplari dell’urbanistica, a scale differenti, visti anche come prototipi del fare replicati in altri contesti e declinazioni, e come esempi di tecniche, di rappresentazioni, di sintassi interdisciplinari. Un ulteriore gruppo di comunicazioni sviluppa la lettura di testi che hanno segnato punti di svolta nella comprensione della città contemporanea. I tre corsi di urbanistica propongono inoltre attività seminariali in comune, il cui significato e modalità sono riportati nei singoli programmi dei corsi, così come ogni ulteriore informazione relativa a modalità organizzative, bibliografie e sitografie

The organization of the course foresees four main types of didactic events. The A type lessons are a serie of frontal lessons about the object and the tools of modern urbanism, seen in relation to the evolution of the contemporary city. The B type communications are especially devoted to the settings of the Research report for the groups of students. The C lessons will focus with monographic attention to single exemplary masterplans of the modern town planning tradition. Those plans will be seen as models, copied in a number of places and ways. They become a sort of handbook of design issues also in matter of urban representations and in matter of connecting interdisciplinary syntaxis of arguments and technical aspects. The D type lessons will develop a lectures serie, devoted to books (or essays) that could be seen as turnng points in the collective awareness of contemporary urbanization. After each A and C lesson a specific bibliography will be available through the Teaching Portal, including the images sources. The month activities during the semester will be described through a detailed calendar, available by the same website.

Prof. Paone: Astengo G. (1966), «Urbanistica», Enciclopedia Universale dell'Arte, Istituto per la collaborazione culturale Venezia - Roma, vol.XIV, pp. 541-642, plates 167-222. Gregotti V. (1966, ed.), La forma del territorio, Edilizia Moderna n.87-88. Rossi A. (1966), L’architettura della città, Marsilio, Padova. Koolhaas R. (1995), Whatever happened to urbanism, in: O.M.A., Koolhaas R. and Mau B., S,M,L,XL, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, pp.958-971. Boosma K. and Hellinga H. (1997, eds.), Mastering the City. European City Planning 1900-2000, NAI Publishers/EFL Publications, Rotterdam/The Hague, 2 voll. Mangin D. (2004), La ville franchisée. Formes et structures de la ville contemporaine, Éditions de la Villette, Paris. Koolhaas R. (2007), Junkspace. in: R. Koolhaas, Junkspace. Per un ripensamento radicale dello spazio urbano, Quodlibet, Macerata, pp.61-102. Burdett R., D. Sudjic (2007, eds.), The Endless City, Phaidon Press, New York and London. Brenner N. (2016), Stato, spazio, urbanizzazione, Guerini Scientifica, Milano. Martinotti G. (2017), Sei lezioni sulla città, Feltrinelli, Milano. prof. Bello: The following general references may be subject to additions or replacements: - Bianchetti C., (2016), Spazi che contano. Il progetto urbanistico in epoca neoliberale, Donzelli, Roma - Secchi B., (2005), La città del ventesimo secolo, Laterza, Roma-Bari A third volume will be indicated at the beginning of the course. In addition, further references will be specified by the professor at the beginning of the course and during the lessons, in relation to the specific needs of the developed themes and issues. prof. Gabardi: The following general references may be subject to additions or replacements: - Bianchetti C., (2016), Spazi che contano. Il progetto urbanistico in epoca neoliberale, Donzelli, Roma - Salzano E., (201610), Fondamenti di urbanistica, Laterza, Roma-Bari - Secchi B., (2005), La città del ventesimo secolo, Laterza, Roma-Bari In addition, further references will be specified by the professor at the beginning of the course and during the lessons, in relation to the specific needs of the developed themes and issues.

Multimedia materials;

Exam: Compulsory oral exam; Group essay;

The final exam foresees an individual colloquium, after having digitally delivered the Research report edited by a small group of students (from one to four). The aims and the content of he Research report will be explained during the frontal lessons (B type) and described through instructions documents available on the Teaching Portal. It is better to prepare a printed copy for the final discussion. The evaluation of the Research Report (maximum score 30/30) will constitute the starting point for the further individual learning of the topics of the course. The exam discussion will focus on one exemplary masterplan (C type lessons) that will be treated through the bibliographies communicated through the Teaching Portal. The masterplan may also be elaborated by further individual researches. Beside that, the student will concentrate his/her attention on the topics of an A type lesson, through his/her own notes and the study of the related bibliography, or one book (or essay) treated in the D lessons serie, or one book from the general bibliography of the course. In any case the student will have to demonstrate in the final discussion to have reached a good information about the topics of urbanism and planning treated in the course communications. The bibliographies mark most of all the essential references about urban architecture that will be essential for the education of the bachelor students. Single students presenting the Research report as a group may sustain the final examination in different days or sessions during the academic year.

In addition to the message sent by the online system, students with disabilities or Specific Learning Disorders (SLD) are invited to directly inform the professor in charge of the course about the special arrangements for the exam that have been agreed with the Special Needs Unit. The professor has to be informed at least one week before the beginning of the examination session in order to provide students with the most suitable arrangements for each specific type of exam.