GEOLOGY

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2015/2016

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Optional/Mandatory:

Compulsory

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in URBAN AND LANDASCAPE PLANNING.

Location:

ALGHERO

Disciplinary Sector:

Structural Geology

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

OGGIANO Giacomo

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

AF code:

40001033

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Urban Planning
Final oral exam with assessment of the project.

Geology
Brain storming.

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

Urban Planning
At the end of the course, the student will recognize the relationship between settlement and territory and in particular the methods of construction of the spatial and temporal conditions of sustainability of new urban landscapes characterized by environmental quality.
The student is able to define projects that experience different ways of inhabiting and may involve, in addition to the forms of residential building, new forms of living, meeting the demand of mobility for different profiles of urban populations.

Geology
The course aims giving the basic knowledge for the description and interpretation of the geo-environmental aspects involved in urban and land planning. The course consists of 27 hours of lectures and of field trips and lab.

Contents

Urban Planning
The classes will be related to emerging themes of the project and they define a framework of cultural background on the project of the city. In particular, the course addresses the following topics:
The project of the city.
The context. The global city. The urban breakthrough.
Ethics and the project of the territory.
The city according to the artists.
The repair of the city.
The intermediate spaces.
The city shapeless.
The desired landscapes .

Geology
The Earth. The rocks as basic component of the physical contest. Geological structures: their role in conditioning the human activities. Hydrology, land planning and flood risk. Geology and hydrogeology for landfills. Geology and landscape. Geochemical and geological maps in land planning.

Recommended Bibliography

Urban Planning
The lessons of the course will be referred to the emerging themes of the project and they are collected throught materials that create a framework of cultural background on the project of the city.
These materials will be available for students during the course. Will be given assistance to students both for the interpretation of the contents of the teaching materials related to the topic of the project, both for the study of the bibliography.

Geology
Innocenti Sassi D'argenio. Introduzione allo studio delle rocce. Utet Geologia ambientale.
B. W. Pipkin, D. D. Trent, R. Hazlett Geologia ambientale English and Italian Edition.

Teaching Methods

Urban Planning
The course aims the design of the spaces of the city characterized by problems of interface between the urban, infrastructural and environmental dimension. It addresses the theme of housing crisis, both for the recovery of existing buildings and with respect to predictions of new settlement coherent with historical and environmental systems.
Groups of students (3/4 students). Face to face teaching course and laboratory with compulsory attendance.

Geology
Field trip, rocks lab.

Contacts/More Information

Urban Planning
- Readiness to offer individual assistance also in a foreign language to incoming students. Language: English and Spanish.
- Availability of supporting material and bibliographic references also in a foreign language.
Bibliography in english:
- Maciocco Giovanni
People and Space. New Forms of Interaction in the City Project, 2009
Enhancing the City. New Perspectives for Tourism and Leisure, 2009
The Territorial Future of the City, 2008
Urban Landscape Perspectives, 2008
Fundamental Trends in City Development, 2008
all edited by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin, New York
City, Territory and Architecture Open Access Journal edited by Springer Verlag:
http://www.cityterritoryarchitecture.com
- Readiness to accept examination of incoming students also in a foreign language. Language: English and Spanish.

Geology
- Readiness to offer individual assistance also in a foreign language to incoming students. Language: English.
- Availability of supporting material and bibliographic references also in a foreign language. Language: English.
- Readiness to accept examination of incoming students also in a foreign language. Language: English.

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