SOCIO-TERRITORIAL analysis and URBAN models

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: CARLO COLLOCA

Expected Learning Outcomes

It is intended to provide a critical and updated review of the main issues that have affected the city and its transformations in recent decades. The teaching will allow you to develop: a) a reasoned and critical definition of socio-territorial issues; b) a sociologically oriented analysis capacity with reference to future urban scenarios and evolutionary trends; c) greater awareness of the contribution of the sociological approach to sustainable and participatory planning of the territory.

Course Structure

Teaching will focus on face-to-face lessons, seminary activities on specific topics, case study research and possibly the development of individual and/or group projects. In addition to the oral exposition of the topics covered, the lecturer will use computer and audiovisual media.

Frequency is not required. There is no intermediate test. Group/individual work is planned to explore certain issues; these works will be an integral part of the examination.

Required Prerequisites

Knowledge of the socio-territorial approach in sociology, main theories and methods.

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory. There are no intermediate tests. Group / individual work is planned for the in-depth study of certain issues; these works will be an integral part of the exam.

Detailed Course Content

The following themes will be the subject of the course: a) Cities, emotions and spaces of the imagination; b) City, landscape and responsibility of architecture; c) Models of urban regeneration: practices of social innovation and integrated territorial development in European cities; d) Governance processes and policies for the city; e) Socio-cultural and spatial dimensions of participatory planning.

Textbook Information

S. SETTIS, Architettura e democrazia. Paesaggio, città, diritti civili, Einaudi, Torino, 2017.

D. CIAFFI, A. MELA, La partecipazione. Dimensioni, spazi, strumenti, Carocci editore, Roma, 2006.

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1Le teorie ed i metodi che fondano l'urbanistica partecipataD. CIAFFI, A. MELA (2006), La partecipazione.
2Città, paesaggio e valori collettivi essenziali per la democraziaS. SETTIS, Architettura e democrazia. Paesaggio, città, diritti civili, Einaudi, Torino, 2017

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Written exam with open questions lasting ninety minutes.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

A) Models of the contemporary city: comparison cases.

 

B) The characteristics of the main participatory strategies for the social planning of the territory.

 

C) Social action and territorial planning.

 

D) Territory, territoriality and local development.

 

E) Territorial marketing and enhancement of local resources.

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