The aim of the course is to provide understanding on how spatial planning can become part of an overall seismic risk mitigation strategy. The course integrates the skills and knowledge specific to planners with the knowledge and the technical principles of civil and environmental engineers. Students will learn to to integrate urban planning and engineering tools to achieve safer urban and regional environments. The main objectives of this course are: A) Achieving the basic understanding of land use, urban and spatial planning that can contribute to risk mitigations B) Gaining the technical skills and the methodology for microzonation of seismic risk C) Understanding how to face seismic risk in settlements, combining the analysis of engineering properties of the buildings and physical infrastructure with the societal context and the human activities that take place there.

The main learning outcomes of the course are: - Concepts, policies and tools for the seismic risk evaluation; - Basic understanding of spatial planning system, policies and tools - Ability to set up a seismic risk analysis based on constructions and socio-economic vulnerabilities and exposure

Students are expected to have basic knowledge on territorial analysis

The course is organized into two modules and one exercise. Each module consists of three parts. Students are expected to apply the concepts and methodologies presented in the theoretical lectures into the exercise. The contents below list a number of topics which will be explored during the lectures with different degree of detail. 1. Earthquakes: causes and effects 2. Seismic risk - Seismic Hazard: expected shaking - Vulnerability of constructions and its evaluations - Socio-economic criteria for exposure assessment - Post-seismic assessment 3. Evaluations for spatial planning - Use of Seismic Microzonation - Emergency limit condition 4. Seismic risk and urban systems - Disasters as a social construct - Quantity and quality of anthropic systems at risk 5. The risk chain (prevision-prevention-response-recovery) - institutions, skills and approaches that are involved at the different stages of the risk chain. - the spatial planning system, levels and competences (territorial planning and sectoral planning) - the emergency planning 6. How to integrate mitigation in spatial planning - integrating urban planning and emergency planning - planning for maintain the continuity of normal activities (minimal urban structure and multi-criteria methods to define a prioritization in action)

The course is organised with theoretical lessons and practical examples on the evaluation of seismic risk and its relation with spatial planning. The students are expected to work in groups to develop maps of expected damage and seismic risk for a municipality, including the social and economic implications.

Each lecture will be supported by slides and references that will be periodically uploaded on the web site of the course.

Slides;

Modalita di esame: Prova orale obbligatoria; Elaborato progettuale in gruppo;

Exam: Compulsory oral exam; Group project;

... The exam is composed of the public presentation of the group work in 2 parts during the semester and an oral individual exam (compulsory), with equal weight. The evaluation of the group work will be based on peer grading and grading by the teachers. The group work is intended to provide the practical skills necessary for the quantitative assessment of seismic risk for a municipality and its implications for urban planning. The oral exam will verify the knowledge of the theoretical issues, technical terminology, and the skills to summarize the key elements of the topics presented during the course. Students will have to demonstrate: - the acquired knowledge about the topic of the course; - the capacity of critical assessment of their group work also with reference to the projects by other groups; - the capabilities to apply the acquired knowledge and skills discussing examples and answering to questions. The final mark is the sum between the assessment of the oral exam and the evaluation of the group work presentation

Gli studenti e le studentesse con disabilita o con Disturbi Specifici di Apprendimento (DSA), oltre alla segnalazione tramite procedura informatizzata, sono invitati a comunicare anche direttamente al/la docente titolare dell'insegnamento, con un preavviso non inferiore ad una settimana dall'avvio della sessione d'esame, gli strumenti compensativi concordati con l'Unita Special Needs, al fine di permettere al/la docente la declinazione piu idonea in riferimento alla specifica tipologia di esame.