SOCIO-TERRITORIAL analysis and URBAN models
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: CARLO COLLOCAExpected 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
- D. CIAFFI, A. MELA, La partecipazione. Dimensioni, spazi, strumenti, Carocci editore, Roma, 2006.
- CRIVELLO, S., Sviluppo urbano e cultura: strategie, retoriche e contraddizioni, in La città agita. Nuovi spazi sociali tra cultura e condivisione, (a cura di) R. Albano, A. Mela, E. Saporito, Angeli, Milano, 2020, pp. 97-122.
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- A. MAGNIER, L'agire architettonico, in A. Magnier e P. Russo, Sociologia dei sistemi urbani, il Mulino, Bologna, 2002, pp. 207-241.
- S. SETTIS, Architettura e democrazia. Paesaggi, città, diritti civili, Einaudi, Torino, 2017, pp. 129-164.
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Theories and methods underpinning participatory urbanism | D. CIAFFI, A. MELA (2006), La partecipazione. |
| 2 | City, landscape and collective values essential for democracy | S. SETTIS, Architettura e democrazia. Paesaggio, città, diritti civili, Einaudi, Torino, 2017 |
| 3 | Multicultural urban scenarios | C. COLLOCA, Città, immigrati e forme dello spazio relazionale, in SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE, fascicolo 133, pp. 14-29, 2024 |
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.