The course aims to provide students with the means to understand the reasons and methods of the transformation and evolution of the city in history from ancient to contemporary age.
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The course is held through lectures, for a total of n. 20 hours, but with a specific attention to the interaction and the dialogue of students, who can formulate proposals for further studies or debates. This method is supported by visual tools (power point presentations) and multimedia connections, in order to facilitate learning. Some lessons will be held in co-presence with other teachers.
Furthermore, the remaining hours of teaching are carried out within the project work – that is, an interdisciplinary activity built around territorial application projects involving the active participation of students – which pursues a unitary teaching between theoretical training and applied research in the area.
The exam is oral and concerns two interviews on the two parts of the didactic area. It verifies that students acquire concepts presented at lesson. In particular:
‒ the theoretical knowledge of the concepts developed during lessons;
‒ the critical ability to apply to specific case studies.
In addition, the portfolio created within the project work is evaluated. This consists in a set of documents (such as mapping, infographics, dossiers, project plans and video-clips) produced in individual and collective way to measure the gradual maturation of the student as well as the application capacity acquired in the training process.
The exam evaluation is determined by the average of the two interviews, to which is added the evaluation of the portfolio, this must correspond to one third of the overall assessment. The evaluation will be expressed on thirty points, communicated to students and registered in their online career book.
The lessons will take into consideration both theoretical and planning themes, referring in particular to the urban space organization and its architectural structure. Significant cases will be examined.
Bibliography
The differentiation of the bibliography between participants and non-attendants is functional to the achievement of the same preparation:
Attending students:
- L. Benevolo, La città nella storia d'Europa, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2023.
- A book to be chosen from the following: P. Morachiello, La città greca, collana Storia della città, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2020; P. Zanker, La città. Romana, collana Storia della città, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2023; A. Grohmann, La città medievale, collana Storia della città, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2018; D. Calabi, La città del primo Rinascimento, collana Storia della città, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2019; D. Del Pesco, A. Hopkins, La città del Seicento, collana Storia della città, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2014; G. Curcio, La città del Settecento, collana Storia della città, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2008; G. Zucconi, La città dell’Ottocento, collana Storia della città, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2022; B. Secchi, La città del ventesimo secolo, collana Storia della città, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2021.
Non-attending students:
- L. Benevolo, La città nella storia d'Europa, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2007
- M. Berengo, Città italiana e città europea. Ricerche storiche, Viella, Roma 2017, chapters I, II, III.
