The course aims at integrating the previously gained conceptual bases in urban planning with additional elements for deepening several issues (housing typologies, housing rules and regulations, economic evaluation of buildable areas, feasibility of operations and projects, compensation and equalization techniques) in order to provide the student with the necessary knowledge and suitable skill for working out projects at infra-urban scale.
The course will provide also the related topics of urban sociology, concerning the development of urban settlements and their morphology in the different periods, the relationships between the economic and social structures and the deriving urban image, the theories on cities, the analysis of social stratification, the relations between classes and the transformation of post-industrial society will then be observed with reference to the present urban systems.
An individual annual workshop will be dedicated to the drafting of an urban implementation plan on an assigned area, to be worked out by the student under the supervision of the teacher. In addition, the basic concepts of urban modelling and geography will be provided, to be applied to the same case study of the workshop project. To such purpose, the course will provide basic concepts about functional characteristics of transportation infrastructure in order to make the student able to approach them adequately; to give analysis criteria to deal with critical issues, design theories and methods related to transportation infrastructure in urban and metropolitan areas. The essential elements to design urban roads, road intersections, bike lanes, pedestrian areas and park systems will be also given to the student.