LABORATORIO DI PIANIFICAZIONE DEL TERRITORIO E DEL PAESAGGIO A - L

The teaching activity aims to make students aware of the complexity of the territory and landscape, the evolution of critical thinking that concerns them, and the methods of intervention through the practical and conceptual tools of planning in connection with those of programming. Within this general objective, students will develop, in particular, the ability to envisage territorial and landscape transformations based on existing spatial relationships.

The workshop, in particular, aims to increase not only theoretical knowledge but also design skills and competences, encouraging students to use both the conceptual and technical-practical tools of physical-spatial planning, inherited from the season of reformism and the so-called “environmental turn” in planning, and those of integrated strategic process planning. To pursue these objectives, students will be guided in learning how to use GIS (geographic information system) as an indispensable tool for acquiring, analysing, evaluating and cross-referencing georeferenced data, with skills in territorial and landscape design and co-design. 

The aim is to enable students to acquire, through critical reflection on practical experience, not only technical skills but also the cognitive-creative and reflective abilities and sensibilities necessary for professionals involved in the complex processes of managing and designing contemporary territories and landscapes.

The examination for this course can only be taken after passing the Laboratorio di Progettazione Urbanistica (third year). 

attendance is compulsory in accordance with the University regulations

The workshop is divided into a theoretical part and a practical part. Both parts aim to provide, according to a practical approach based on critical-theoretical reflection, elements of knowledge of the main issues and tools (conceptual and regulatory) through which territorial planning and the paradigms of control, protection, and co-production of territorial and landscape transformations are defined. 

The programme combines theory and practice in six thematic blocks, corresponding to six different stages in the evolution of the theory and practice of territorial and landscape planning, each characterised by specific problems, conceptual tools, and analytical and intervention techniques. In this context, the relationship between paradigms and tools for territorial development and those for the integrated protection of landscape and environmental assets will be explored in depth in relation to the emerging issues of territorial risks and ecological transition. Particular attention will be paid to the relationship between planning and programming, with particular reference to areas in difficulty and recent policies to reduce territorial disparities, such as the SNAI.

Block 1 – Genesis of the profession, for the control and construction of territorial identity (Planning and industrial revolution in the 19th century; planning during the Fascist regime, LN 1089/39, LN 1497/39, LN 1150/42, anti-urbanisation law and history of rural villages)

Block 2 – Reformist planning and the problem of development (The city-countryside relationship in post-war Italy, agrarian reform and repeal of the fascist anti-urbanisation law; The Cassa per il Mezzogiorno, building speculation and urbanisation)

Block 3 – Environmental planning and the problem of the limits to development (the debate on the sustainability of territorial development in the 1970s and 1980s, the Galasso law and the urban code; the urban ecological footprint, territories and landscapes of illegal building; approaches to ecological planning of the territory and landscape; the European Landscape Convention; the virtual observatory of the European Landscape; strategies and projects in the landscape; ecosystem services

Block 4 – The procedural shift in planning (The impact on planning of changes in the institutional structure in the 1980s and 1990s; Deregulation and the crisis of reformist planning; from government to territorial governance and strategic planning; new roles for the private sector and new tools for negotiated planning; LRS 19/20; 

Block 5 – New roles for civil society (spatial justice and equity in the 11th century; the relevance of reformism, fundamental economics and policies to reduce territorial disparities; deliberative planning; co-productive planning; territory and landscape, common goods, pros and cons; ecomuseums; the National Strategy for Internal Areas)

Block 6 – Planning for resilience (the debate on the Anthropocene and the emergence of planning for adaptation to climate change; planning for degrowth; an overview of civil/alternative/transformative territorial economics)

Essential bibliography

1-Alberto Magnaghi, Il progetto locale, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2000
2- Alberto Magnaghi, Il principio territoriale, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2020
3- Fausto Carmelo Nigrelli (a cura di), Paesaggi scartati, Manifestolibri, Roma, 2020
4- Convenzione europea del Paesaggio, Firenze 2000.
5- Michael Jakob, Il paesaggio, il Mulino, Bologna, 2009
6 -Vito Teti, La Restanza, Einaudi, Torino, 2022
7- Giampiero Lupatelli, Fragili e antifragili. Territori, economie e istituzioni al tempo del coronavirus, Rubbettino, 2021
8- Domenico Sorace, Paesaggio e paesaggi della Convenzione europea, in G.F. Cartei (a cura di), Convenzione europea del paesaggio e governo del territorio, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2007
9- Paolo D’Angelo, Filosofia del paesaggio, Quodlibet, Roma, 2010, cap. 1

Supplementary bibliography

1a - Observatorio virtual del paisaje urbano mediterraneo
2a -Paolo La Greca e Francesco Martinico, “Strategie per il Val di Noto”, in F. Corrado (a cura di), Le risorse territoriali nello sviluppo locale, Alinea, Firenze, 2005.

A further bibliography will be indicated during the course of the workshop

Two written in itinere tests will be carried out at the end of the first semester. the first one to check the state of learning of the theoretical topics covered; the second one to check the acquired GIS competence. The evaluation will contribute to the final assessment. 
Other in itinere tests may be included during both the first and second semester.
The final examination consists of an interview during which the students will have to demonstrate their mastery of the theoretical topics covered during the lessons, also starting from the discussion of the course papers, which will concern selected territorial areas in Sicily.
Students will have to present all the exercises and papers produced during the workshop.
The final examination may include the setting up of an exhibition with all the materials worked on and the illustration to an external visiting professor of the graphic works and general topics addressed during the year.

Planning levels.

Spatial and sectoral planning

Evolution of the spatial concept

Sustainable development

What are ecosystem services

From the concept of sustainable development to the territorialist approach

Evolution of the landscape concept

Spatial and landscape planning

Local development

Practical tests of GIS use