HISTORY OF THE CITY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2015/2016

Type of Course:

Characterising

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in URBAN AND LANDASCAPE PLANNING.

Disciplinary Sector:

Urban Planning

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

DECANDIA Lidia

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

There are no special requisites and no preparatory work

AF code:

40002524

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Final exam, which will assess the ability to relate historic content with an inquiry into the sense of the city in contemporary life, as well as specific knowledge and the capacity to report on and critically discuss the content learnt.

Teaching period

Second semester

Objectives

So as to have new possible interpretations of the sense of the contemporary city emerge, the course aims at encouraging students to ask themselves about the deep sense of the meanings and content this concept embraces and about its various manifestations during the course of time. The course has the following objectives: on the one hand, to build up experience on the basis of a diacronic reading, from which to draw to disrupt the consolidated categories by which we are accustomed to interpret the urban phenomenon; on the other, to provide instruments to learn how to use historic sources in a critical manner.

Contents

Starting with the assumption that a single idea of city does not exist but that the ways in which societies in various contexts have, over time, built up “topographic and social devices able to make the meeting of and exchanges between men as effective as possible”, the course aims to follow through some of the forms and ways in which the actual idea of urban has been manifested, replacing the concept of city with a more general reflection on spatial forms and their relationship with society. Beginning with the identification and construction of sacred places in Neolithic times, some particularly significant thresholds will be singled out and analysed to be able to provide an analysis of the idea of city that took shape in Italy in the Middle Ages.

Recommended Bibliography

Mumford L. (1977), La città nella storia. Dal santuario alla Polis, vol.1, It. trad., Bompiani, Milan;
Decandia L., “Centri sacri e territorio” in Anime di luoghi, Franco Angeli, Milan;
Lilliu G. (1988), La civiltà dei sardi dal neolitico all’età dei nuraghi, Eri, Turin;
Morachiello M. (2003), La città greca, Laterza, Rome-Bari;
Rykwert J. (1981), L'idea di città. Antropologia della forma urbana nel mondo antico, Einaudi, Turin;
Guidoni E. (1991), Storia dell'Urbanistica. Il Medioevo, Secoli VI-XII Laterza, Rome-Bari, pp. 1-242;
Sereni E. (1996) Storia del paesaggio agrario italiano, Laterza, Bari
Students will be given sets of notes for each topic dealt with.

Teaching Methods

The teaching method is divided into taught lessons and more interactive lessons during which, as well as taking the floor and participating actively in developing the learning route via exercises and discussions, students will be able to directly experience , reading documents and using sources of information, how to reconstruct the fundamental lines of organisation of a unique territorial context.

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