DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
Master's Degree in Architecture and Building Engineering
Academic Year 2020/2021 - 1° Year

DIRITTO URBANISTICO - GEOGRAFIA E SOCIOLOGIA URBANA

Teaching Staff

Learning Objectives

• URBAN PLANNING LAW
  

  The class aims to examine in depth legal themes tied to territorial administration, with special reference to legal sources of urban planning law, to the fundamentals of city planning system and to the authorizing measures framework. Legal sources, basic principles of Italian Constitution and rules for the exercise of State and Regional legislative power are part of the course. The class aspires to the comprehension of legal principles of territorial administration and city planning system, together with the interference profiles between urban planning and environment and property protection.

  Ultimately, the course also includes an attachment on public procurement law, dealing with the analysis of the Italian public tenders system and the identification of the involved subjects.

• URBAN GEOGRAPHY AND SOCIOLOGY
  

  The class intends to: - provide interpretative tools for the territorial processes which are typical of the capitalistic age; - give information about the evolution of the concept of sustainable development; - transmit knowledge of world natural environment and of changes which took place from 1960s in urban areas, that are often the reason of development unsustainability; - verify the human ecological answer on the urban environment and understand the current urban planning policies.

Detailed Course Content

• URBAN PLANNING LAW
  

  URBAN PLANNING LAW: Section I – Principles, functions, subjects, Section II – regulative function, Section III – Building activity control

  PUBLIC PROCUREMENT LAW: Objective and subjective scope of application, Public procurement participation requirements, Categories of Public Procurement procedures, Award critieria

• URBAN GEOGRAPHY AND SOCIOLOGY
  

  Introduction, human population, population dynamics, cultural diversity, urbanization, urban sociology theories, flow and networks, hubs and hierarchies, areas, spatial dissemination, local tension, economic inequality, globalization

Textbook Information

• URBAN PLANNING LAW
  

  URBAN PLANNING LAW

  Urbani P., Civitarese Matteucci S. – Diritto Urbanistico, Organizzazione e Rapporti – Torino, Giappichelli, ultima ed.

  PUBLIC PROCUREMENT LAW

  Longo A., Canzonieri E. - La nuova disciplina dei contratti pubblici - Milano, Giuffrè, 2018

• URBAN GEOGRAPHY AND SOCIOLOGY
  

  Hagget P. – Geografia – Milano, Zanichelli, 2004