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STORIA DELLA CITTA' CONTEMPORANEA, DEL TERRITORIO E DEL PAESAGGIO

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: MARGHERITA BONOMO

Expected Learning Outcomes

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) Knowledge and understanding

At the end of the course the student - is able to understand the phenomenon of European urban development in the nineteenth century -

2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

he knows how to identify the main phases of the urban, economic and social transformation that took place in this period and is able to read the urban and territorial geography of the continent.

3) Making judgements

ability to collect and interpret data and information deemed useful to determine autonomous judgments

4) Communication skills

Acquisition of the scientific lexicon and ability to communicate clearly and effectively even in front of an audience

5) Learning skills

Ability to identify the fundamentals of the discipline and methodological application

Course Structure

Lectures and seminars, active learning: interactive brianstorming, flipped classroom, working groups.

Required Prerequisites

No prerequisites required.

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory.

Detailed Course Content

The course aims to offer the main tools to understand the evolution of space and urban society in the contemporary age, we will study specific phenomena, such as road infrastructure and services, keeping in mind both the urban element, both the social element, and the environmental element, understood as interaction between man and the territory that hosts its activities.understood as an interaction between man and the territory that hosts his activities. The first part of the course will be aimed at addressing the main problematic and interpretative nodes of the history of the city, on a European and Italian scale in the nineteenth centuryIn the second part through the Case studies of the urban transformations of the city of Rome under the fascist regime we will analyze how an ideology can influence urban planning and vice versa how the anasili of the architecture of a given historical context can contribute to understanding and specifying the underlying ideology.

Textbook Information

Guido Zucconi, La città dell’Ottocento, Editori Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2022 (184 pp.)

Emilio Gentile, Fascismo di Pietra, Laterza, 2008 (284 pp.)

 

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The exam is oral, and includes a verification of basic knowledge with attention to the ability to understand the problems faced during the lessons; the knowledge of the discipline in its historical development will be verified, the ability to frame the objects studied in their context, and to discuss them critically. The quality of oral expression and the ability to construct a logical-argumentative discourse will also be taken into account.

The final evaluation will follow the following indications:

- insufficient grade: lack of basic knowledge and inability to produce a correct interpretation of texts and/or problems -

- sufficient grade (18-22): possession of basic knowledge; interpretation mostly correct, but conducted with imprecision and poor autonomy.

.- good grade (23-27): possession of intermediate level knowledge; fully correct interpretation, but not always precise and autonomous.

- excellent grade (28-30 laude): possession of high level knowledge; interpretation of problems not only correct but conducted with autonomy and precision. Excellent oral expression skills.

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