Programma

The course explores some specific issues concerning the foundation and transformation of the city in the period between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age, proceeding in chronological sequence up to the 21st Century.
The knowledge acquired by the students will be specifically applied to portions of Rome's built neighborhoods (streets, squares, fortifications, palaces, etc.) considered particularly significant for urban history and whose original characteristics and subsequent transformations up to the current phase will be highlighted.
The topics of the lectures, grouped in two parts (Part 1 Prof. Scimemi; Part 2 Prof. Sturm), will be as follows:

Part 1 (professor Scimemi)
A City and Territory: THEORIES AND CASES
1. The treatises: from the models of antiquity, to the premises of the modern era, to the debates on town planning in the contemporary age
2. The palace as city
3. The villa as a territorial structure
4. The industrial city and the vertical city
5. From the Siedlung to the Megastructures
6. The Notions of ‘Environment’ and "Habitat

B City and Territory: PALINSESTS [Section on Rome: in situ lessons]
1. the Baths of Diocletian and the area of Termini;
2. the complex of San Giovanni in Laterano;
3. Castel Sant'Angelo and the Borgo Vaticano;
4. the Arenula district and its palaces;
5. the Campidoglio
6. the Via Flaminia and the Olympic Village.

Part 2(professor Sturm)
In the specific part of the course, entitled ‘City and Territory: MODELS’, the lessons dedicated to the analysis of specific examples and models of urban history, will be supplemented by visits and inspections illustrative of the events addressed, according to the following themes:

1. Rome's urban structure and formation: the plan of Sixtus V and replicas in the modern and post-industrial age
2. The Baroque city: capitals and suburbs (Rome, Naples, Lecce, Turin, new towns in eastern Sicily)
3. The “paper city”: plans of Rome from the Renaissance to Giovan Battista Nolli
4. The Royal Palace and the City: Caserta, Savoy villas, feudal residences, European royal palaces
5. The mercantile city in the modern and post-industrial age
6. The invention of town planning: the 19th century city
7. The Sustainable City: New European Capitals of the 21st Century
8. Genius Loci: new foundations, settlements and territory in the enlarged Roman area.

Testi Adottati

Key texts are listed below are (further bibliography will be provided in class).

Part 1 (professor M. Scimemi).
Françoise Choay, L'urbanistica in discussione, in Id., La città. Utopie e realtà, vol, I, Einaudi, Torino 1973 (ed. or. 1965) pp. 3-81.
Richard Krautheimer, Roma. Profilo di una città, 312-1308, Edizioni dell’elefante, Roma 1981: capitoli IX-X (obbligatori) + 1 capitolo (a scelta) tra i capitoli XI (Lo sviluppo del Borgo) ; XII (L’Abitato) ; XIV (Il Disabitato e il Laterano).

Part 2 (professor Sturm):
Joseph Connors, Alleanze e inimicizie. L’urbanistica di Roma barocca, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005
Enrico Guidoni, L’arte di progettare le città. Italia e Mediterraneo dal medioevo al Settecento, Kappa, Roma 1992 (un capitolo a scelta)
Christian Norberg-Schulz, Genius Loci. Paesaggio Ambiente Architettura, Milano 2009 (I ed. 1979) (un capitolo a scelta)

Modalità Frequenza

Attendance at lectures and visits is compulsory (at the least the 75%) as well as participation in educational outings and tutorials; active participation and student interventions/contributions during the course are recommended and form part of the final assessment.

Modalità Valutazione

The examination, which will take the form of an oral test, will be aimed at verifying the degree of knowledge of the works and topics covered during the course, the quality of the exercises performed and the study of the assigned bibliography.

Programma

In the specific part of the course, entitled ‘City and Territory: MODELS’, the lessons dedicated to the analysis of specific examples and models of urban history, will be supplemented by visits and inspections illustrative of the events addressed, according to the following themes:
1. Rome's urban structure and formation: the plan of Sixtus V and replicas in the modern and post-industrial age
2. The Baroque city: capitals and suburbs (Rome, Naples, Lecce, Turin, new towns in eastern Sicily)
3. The “paper city”: plans of Rome from the Renaissance to Giovan Battista Nolli
4. The Royal Palace and the City: Caserta, Savoy villas, feudal residences, European royal palaces
5. The mercantile city in the modern and post-industrial age
6. The invention of town planning: the 19th century city
7. The Sustainable City: New European Capitals of the 21st Century
8. Genius Loci: new foundations, settlements and territory in the enlarged Roman area.

Testi Adottati

Joseph Connors, Alleanze e inimicizie. L’urbanistica di Roma barocca, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2005
Enrico Guidoni, L’arte di progettare le città. Italia e Mediterraneo dal medioevo al Settecento, Kappa, Roma 1992
Christian Norberg-Schulz, Genius Loci. Paesaggio Ambiente Architettura, Milano 2009 (I ed. 1979)

Modalità Frequenza

Students participation is defined by our "Regolamento didattico" (at least 75% of presence of the student to the teacher's lessons). Furthermore, attendance is essential to participate in educational outings and exercises; active participation and student interventions/contributions during the course are recommended and form part of the final assessment.

Modalità Valutazione

The examination, which will be conducted through an oral test, will be aimed at verifying the degree of knowledge of the works and topics covered during the course, the quality of the exercises performed, and the study of the assigned bibliography.