The objectives of the individual module help to define the set of objectives of the entire course.
The course offers the theoretical and operational knowledge which are essential for describing and designing the open spaces of the city, enhancing their architectural, functional, and environmental features, and managing the spatial, temporal, social, and ecological interactions between their biotic and abiotic components.
The course offers the theoretical and operational knowledge which are essential for describing and designing the open spaces of the city, enhancing their architectural, functional, and environmental features, and managing the spatial, temporal, social, and ecological interactions between their biotic and abiotic components.
scheda docente
materiale didattico
Contents:
Section I: Flora and Vegetation (structure and composition) in the urban environment and in the natural habitat. Vegetation complexes: correlation between vegetation and environmental factors.
• Elements of Botanical Systematics; PVN Potential Natural Vegetation within the Holocene, current interglacial period
• Native and alien plants, archaeophytes and neophytes, spontaneous, synanthropic and cultivated
• Biocoenosis - Biotope - Habitat - Ecosystem - Landscape - Anthropocene and Symbiocene
• Gradients of naturalness: natural, semi-natural, rural, artificial ecosystems (parks and gardens, urban and peri-urban settlements)
• Vegetation structure - Plant communities - Vegetation dynamism - Primary and secondary plant succession
• Elements of Phytosociology- Strategic-functional classification of plants CSR (Grime)
• Biomes, Chorotypes, Ecoregions
• Elements of Phytogeography - Mediterranean biogeographical region - Mediterranean ecozones in the world
Section II: Plant landscape of Latium; Mediterranean, submontane, riparian vegetation, the Roman countryside (Agro Romano) as anthropic steppe.
• Habitat, definition and classification according to the European Habitats Directive DH; List of endemic regional habitats to be protected and conserved: SIC, ZSC e ZPS
• Hot-spots and Red Lists of endangered Vegetation
• Landscape Ecology: Patch-corridor-matrix, Buffer-zone, Ecological networks
• Ecological fragmentation and connectivity, biodiversity in natural and urban environments. Third landscape
Section III: Types of Vegetation and analysis of the main taxa (plant species)
• Grassland formations: steppe, prairie, savannah, urban meadow and lawn
• Shrubs: typology, resilience, mediterranean maquis shrubland
• Trees: forest, woodland, countryside and urban trees; morphology, physiology and ecosystem services SE;
• Forestation and afforestation between wilderness, green project and ecosystemic approach.
Matthew Gandy: Natura Urbana. Ecological Constellations in Urban Space. MIT Press Ltd, 2024
Polunin Oleg, Walters Martin: Guida alle vegetazioni d’Europa. Zanichelli 1987 oppure
Polunin Oleg, Walters Martin: A Guide to the Vegetation of Britain and Europe Oxford University Press 1985
Le slides PowerPoint delle lezioni saranno scaricate su Microsoft Teams
Sempre su Teams saranno scaricati pdf, tavole e links a siti scientifici ed istituzionali relativi agli argomenti trattati o a richieste di approfondimento.
Programma
Aim: the course intends to provide basic knowledge of Botany and Plant Ecology suitable for the recognition and interpretation of vegetation patterns of natural or cultural origin in urban and peri-urban open spaces, with constant reference to their presence in historical and contemporary design typologies.Contents:
Section I: Flora and Vegetation (structure and composition) in the urban environment and in the natural habitat. Vegetation complexes: correlation between vegetation and environmental factors.
• Elements of Botanical Systematics; PVN Potential Natural Vegetation within the Holocene, current interglacial period
• Native and alien plants, archaeophytes and neophytes, spontaneous, synanthropic and cultivated
• Biocoenosis - Biotope - Habitat - Ecosystem - Landscape - Anthropocene and Symbiocene
• Gradients of naturalness: natural, semi-natural, rural, artificial ecosystems (parks and gardens, urban and peri-urban settlements)
• Vegetation structure - Plant communities - Vegetation dynamism - Primary and secondary plant succession
• Elements of Phytosociology- Strategic-functional classification of plants CSR (Grime)
• Biomes, Chorotypes, Ecoregions
• Elements of Phytogeography - Mediterranean biogeographical region - Mediterranean ecozones in the world
Section II: Plant landscape of Latium; Mediterranean, submontane, riparian vegetation, the Roman countryside (Agro Romano) as anthropic steppe.
• Habitat, definition and classification according to the European Habitats Directive DH; List of endemic regional habitats to be protected and conserved: SIC, ZSC e ZPS
• Hot-spots and Red Lists of endangered Vegetation
• Landscape Ecology: Patch-corridor-matrix, Buffer-zone, Ecological networks
• Ecological fragmentation and connectivity, biodiversity in natural and urban environments. Third landscape
Section III: Types of Vegetation and analysis of the main taxa (plant species)
• Grassland formations: steppe, prairie, savannah, urban meadow and lawn
• Shrubs: typology, resilience, mediterranean maquis shrubland
• Trees: forest, woodland, countryside and urban trees; morphology, physiology and ecosystem services SE;
• Forestation and afforestation between wilderness, green project and ecosystemic approach.
Testi Adottati
Richard T. T. Forman Land Mosaics: The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions. Cambridge University Press 1995Matthew Gandy: Natura Urbana. Ecological Constellations in Urban Space. MIT Press Ltd, 2024
Polunin Oleg, Walters Martin: Guida alle vegetazioni d’Europa. Zanichelli 1987 oppure
Polunin Oleg, Walters Martin: A Guide to the Vegetation of Britain and Europe Oxford University Press 1985
Le slides PowerPoint delle lezioni saranno scaricate su Microsoft Teams
Sempre su Teams saranno scaricati pdf, tavole e links a siti scientifici ed istituzionali relativi agli argomenti trattati o a richieste di approfondimento.
Modalità Frequenza
Mandatory for 75% of the lessonsModalità Valutazione
For evaluating the learning process are required and recommended: - Attendance for the majority of lessons, with active participation in lessons, discussion and reviews - Examination and discussion of photos and cards relating to field excursions - Monthly tests with open-ended questions - Final discussion of the Green Project