28965 - European Urban Systems (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, student knows the models of urban european systems and how they works, in relation to the national and european scale

Course contents

 Theme of the course: The Modern city and its transformations in Europe. East-West confronts.
Some arguments of the lessons:
-Main aspects and times of urban modernisation in Europe, between 19th. and 20th. Century.
- Exemples of Capital cities and important cities: London, Vienna , Paris, Barcellona.
-New cultural models: Artistic Avan-guarde and Modernism in Architecture and Urban Plannig
-Managing the urban growth:social housing and urban planning.
-The city and the  spaces of Power.
-The socialist city in Eastern Central Europe after 1845
- Urban transition in Capital cities of Central and Eastern Europe after 1989
- Urban changes in the last decades: the urban regeneration
-Cities, Metropoles, Urban Regions:some contemporary challenges

Readings/Bibliography

Students who don't attend to the lessons, must to know the following texts :

 1- One Manual between:

-L. Spagnoli, Storia dell'urbanistica moderna. Vol. 2- Dall'età della borghesia alla globalizzazione, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2012 (limitatamente a: Terza Parte, pp.12-20; Cap.15, pp.21-30; Cap.16 and 17: pp.43-57 e 73-82, pp.82-137;Cap.18, pp.138-164;Quarta Parte e Cap.19, pp.217-279; Cap.20,pp.281-318;Cap.21, pp.333-363; Cap.23, pp.393-406, 438-449,455-469.)

-D. Calabi, Storia dell'urbanistica europea, B. Mondatori, Milano 2008

-G. Montanari, A. Bruno jr, Architettura e città nel Novecento, Carocci, Roma 2009.

 2-One book between :

- M.Marchi ( a cura di), Geografie dell'Adriatico orientale nel Novecento, BUP, Bologna 2014

-M.Marchi, P.P.Penzo, C. Tonini(a cura di), Città europee del XXI secolo. Luoghi e tempi del mutamento urbano, CLUEB, Bologna 2012

-M.Marchi, C. Tonini ( a cura di), Da Berlino a Samarcanda. Città in transizione, Carocci, Roma 2009.

3-The articles : M.Marchi, Paesaggi di frontiera nel totalitarismo. Bolzano durante il fascismo ( Borderland lanscape of totalitarianism. Bolzano/Bozen during Fascism), 2015, pp.2-20; M.Marchi, Forme e trasformazioni della città in Europa centro orientale dopo il 1945, in Da Berlino a Samarcanda, 2009,pp.11-53; M. Marchi, Memoria e oblio nei paesaggi contemporanei, a Varsavia e a Berlino, 2010,pp. 418-425; M. Marchi, Declino e rigenerazione urbana in Europa: i casi di Glasgow e Lipsia, 2012,pp.315-326. , available on the website: www.campus. unibo.it.

 

Students who attend to the lessons( minimum 2/3 of total), instead of the Manual( point 1) can prepare a paper ( 10 pp.) about a case study or urban aspect, chosen in accord whit prof. Marchi.

Students who attend to the lessons ( as specified before) and do not write a paper, must to study only the parts of Manual discussed in classroom.A list will be done at the end of the course.

 

Teaching methods

Front lessons, museum visits, urban walks to significant places for the course themes.

Assessment methods

For students who don’t attend the lessons, an oral examination has required, based on the texts mentioned in the program. It will assess the knowledge and the ability to present, whit the appropriate language, the general aspects of the various issues and the necessary specifications, with examples, for present the nature of the issues and their complexity.

For the attendants (as defined above), the examination can take place in two parts: the first by the written report, which will evaluate the application of the methodologies of geographic approach learned during the lessons. An oral interview will be completed, which will focus on the remaining parts of the program for attendants and on the discussion of the written work.

Particularly accurate and brilliant knowledge and exposures (written and oral) will match the highest standards of excellence.Some lacks of knowledge, with a language that is not completely appropriate, will match between the discret and the sufficient. Finally, serious deficiencies in content, lack of understanding of the main aspects of the course and inappropriate form of presentation, will lead to insufficient.

Teaching tools

Videoprojector will be used for help the lessons with photos, maps and geographical models

Office hours

See the website of Marzia Marchi