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LABORATORIO DI PROGETTAZIONE URBANISTICA M - Z

Academic Year 2026/2027 - 3° Year
Teaching Staff: Luca BARBAROSSA
Credit Value: 12
Scientific field: ICAR/21 - Urban and landscape planning
Taught classes: 28 hours
Exercise: 26 hours
Laboratories: 90 hours
Semester: 1°

Expected Learning Outcomes

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the urban planning discipline by providing theoretical, methodological, and technical basis for interpreting the analysis of urban and territorial phenomena. It aims to guide students in understanding existing regulatory frameworks and in practicing urban design, broadening their perspective beyond building architecture to include comprehensive rational urban planning.
The proposed method seeks to understand the complexity of urban phenomena, highlighting how the form of the city and its public spaces is the result of the ongoing, often conflicting, multiple collective actions. This method emphasizes on the complexity of the urban environment, rather than focusing on singular parts or fabrics.
After a fisrst training through lectures on the theoretical foundations of urban planning and design, , students will move on to drafting basic exercises involving the reading and interpretation of different urban areas. In the second part of the course, a plan will be developed according with the hypotheses previously illustrated, framed within a strategy, defining scenarios, and proposing solutions to spatial problems identified during the analysis phase
 In detail, with reference to the Dublin Descriptors, the educational pathway can be articulated as follows.
1. Knowledge and understanding
The student will undertake a path of knowledge covering the theoretical, methodological and technical foundations of urban planning, with reference to the international literature, national and regional regulatory frameworks (with particular attention to the Sicilian context), general and implementation planning instruments, urban planning standards, as well as emerging challenges and paradigms in planning.
2. Applying knowledge and understanding
By the end of the course, the student will be able to:
  • read and interpret parts of the city with different characteristics (historic fabrics, recent peripheries, settlement sprawl);
  • use urban analysis and GIS tools, and calculate urban planning parameters and standards;
  • undertake a process of interpretation and evaluation of the urban realities analyzed, and translate urban analyses into a general and implementation urban plan for a real urban area.
3. Making judgements
The student will develop the ability to read the complexity of urban phenomena as the outcome of collective and conflictual actions, to critically select alternative strategies and scenarios for transformation, and to argue for design choices grounded in the spatial problems that emerged during the analysis phase.
4. Communication skills
The student will develop communication skills aimed at promoting and conveying the content of the analysis and the project. Techniques for the graphic and textual representation of project work will be refined, and oral communication skills will be strengthened, in order to provide students with the tools to make technical topics accessible to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
5. Learning skills
Through seminars, workshops and site visits, the student will acquire a method for reading and designing the city that can be transferred to contexts other than the one analyzed, laying the groundwork for the independent exploration of emerging tools even beyond the course.

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Course Structure

The course will be developed as follows: lectures, design workshops, seminari, field trips and educational visits. A final workshop may be scheduled to facilitate the end of the design activities.

Required Prerequisites

Having successfully passed the follow examinations: Istituzioni di matematiche, Diritto del governo del territorio and Laboratorio di Composizione architettonica 2.

Attendance of Lessons

In order to be eligible to take the final examination f, students are required to have attended at least 70% of the classes.

Detailed Course Content

The course content is organized according to the learning objectives.

In the first part of the laboratory, the lectures are aimed at enabling students to develop the ability to analyze urban and territorial systems, to interpret the relationships linking processes of urban and territorial transformation with the theories and tools of the urban planning discipline, and to identify the modes of intervention and the regulatory aspects that characterize urban planning.

In the second part of the laboratory, the lectures are devoted to "discovering" the urban phenomenon in its current form and to learning the urban analysis tools needed to design interventions within already urbanized contexts with different characteristics: historic fabrics, recent peripheries, and settlement sprawl. In the third part of the laboratory, the conceptual definition of the urban project will be developed, with reference to the culture of the main European countries.

Part of the laboratory activities will focus on learning the open-source software QGIS, a fundamental tool for territorial analysis and the definition of project scenarios.

Through the study and analysis of a number of exemplary cases, the laboratory will undertake a design process aimed at the development and management of the urban planning project. The design experience will be carried out on an urban area of adequate size and will aim at developing a general and implementation-level urban plan.

Textbook Information

1. AA.VV., Cerdà. Città e territorio, Institut d’Estudis Territorials – Università di Catania, Barcellona, 2002. [5-8, 13-14, 18-25]

2. G. ASTENGO, voce Urbanistica, Enciclopedia universale dell’arte

3. G. DATO (a cura di), L'urbanistica di Haussmann: un modello impossibile?, Officina, Roma 1995. [7-34]

4. G. DEMATTEIS, C. LANZA, Le città del mondo. Una geografia urbana, UTET, Torino, 2011, cap. 2 pp. 35-56 e cap. 3 pp. 57-81, cap. 11, pp. 179 – 203 e cap. 13 pp. 217 - 225

5. P. GABELLINI, Tecniche urbanistiche, Carocci, Roma, 2001

6. B. GABRIELLI, Il recupero della città esistente : saggi 1968-1992, Etas libri, Milano, 1993, [257-272]

7. K. LYNCH, Progettare la città. Milano, Etaslibri, 1990

8. P. INGALLINA P. (2001) Il progetto urbano, Franco Angeli, Milano, cap. 1, pp. 29 – 63

9. D. MANGIN, Ph. PANERAI, Projet urbain, Editions Parenthèses, Marseille, 1999, cap. 4 pp. 83 – 100 e cap. 7 pp. 139 – 162.

10. S. MUNARIN, V. MARTELLIANO (a cura di), Spazi, storie e soggetti del welfare. Sul ruolo delle politiche del welfare state nella costruzione della città, Gangemi Editore, Roma, 2012. pp. 9 - 24, 75 - 88, 131 - 142.

11. F. C. NIGRELLI, Percorsi del Progetto urbano in Francia e in Italia 1960-1997, Officina Edizioni, Roma, 1999, cap. 4, pp. 212 -241, conclusioni pp. 271 - 281

12. Ph. PANERAI, J. CASTEX, J. DEPAULE, Isolato urbano e città contemporanea, CittàStudi, Milano, 1981

13. C. RATTI con M. CLAUDEL, La città di domani. Come le reti stanno cambiando il futuro urbano, Giulio Einaudi editore, Torino 2017, cap. 1 pp. 5 – 12, cap. 2 pp. 13 – 19, cap. 3 pp. 20 – 29, cap. 4 pp. 33 – 40, cap. 5 pp. 41 – 50, cap. 7 pp. 65 - 74

14. M. RONCAYOLO, La città. Storia e problemi della dimensione urbana, Einaudi, Torino, 1988, cap. 1 pp. 11 – 24, cap. 2 pp. 25 – 39, cap. 4 pp. 55 - 66

15. B. SECCHI, Prima lezione di Urbanistica, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2000

16. B. SECCHI, La città dei ricchi e la città dei poveri, Laterza Editore, Bari, 2013

17. B. ZANON, Territorio, ambiente, città. Vol. I: Temi, esperienze e strumenti dell’urbanistica contemporanea, Alinea Editrice, Firenze, 2008

 

Further readings – a selected bibliography:

18. AA.VV. Projets urbains en France, Le Moniteur, Paris, 2002

19. P. COLAROSSI e A.P. LATINI, La progettazione urbana. Vol. 2, ilSole24ore, Milano, 2008, cap. 4 pp. 433 – 473, cap. 5 pp. 475 – 566

20. P. COLAROSSI e A.P. LATINI, La progettazione urbana. Vol. 3, ilSole24ore, Milano, 2008, cap. 3 pp. 94 – 158

21. Ch. DEVILLERS, “Il progetto urbano”, in in Rassegna di Architettura e urbanistica, “Progetto urbano in Francia”, n. 110/111, ed. Kappa, Roma 2003, pp. 43-54

22. F. D’ORSO, Ecoquartiers, t. 2, ed Snal, Paris, 2014

23. B. HUET, “Il progetto urbano e la storia” in Rassegna di Architettura e urbanistica, “Progetto urbano in Francia”, n. 110/111, ed. Kappa, Roma 2003, pp. 38-42

24. P. LA GRECA, Interventi nella città consolidata: casi francesi e italiani a confronto. Documenti del DAU n. 14, Gangemi Editore, Roma, 1996

25. C. MORENO, Vie urbaine et proximité à l’heure du Covid-19, Et Après? n. 30, Éditions de L'Observatoire, Paris, 2020

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The final exam consists of the student's presentation of all the exercises, urban analyses, and urban planning projects developed during the laboratory. In addition, the student is required to demonstrate the knowledge and skills acquired on the topics covered in the lectures through a written mid-term test and a final oral examination.

The final exam may include the setting up of an exhibition featuring all the materials produced, along with a presentation of the graphic outputs and the general themes addressed during the year.

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