Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

Urban Planning

Urban Planning

Anno accademico 2023/2024

Sommario insegnamento

• Obiettivi formativi
• Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
• Programma
• Modalità di insegnamento
• Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
• Testi consigliati e bibliografia
• Strumenti didattici
• Scheda del corso

Obiettivi formativi

The public actor assigns the rights for land use and development through the use of spatial planning. Through time, all countries in the world have progressively developed and consolidated spatial governance and planning systems that are a more or less direct consequence of their model of society, their administrative traditions and technical cultures. Each of these systems is characterised by a specific set of legal and administrative devices, through which land-use and development rights are regulated, public-private partnership finalised to territorial transformation are formed, and the action of different levels and sectors coordinated.

In addition to national spatial governance and planning systems, since the Second World War a number of transnational organization instituted and consolidated, may they be supranational or intergovernmental in nature, as an answer to incremental globalization tendencies. Despite not being characterised by any spatial governance and planning system, such organizations concur, to a greater or lesser extent, to shaping the evolution of urban and territorial policies in the various countries. This occurs through the development of more or less coercive guidance documents (e.g. The European Spatial development Perspective or the United Nations' New Urban Agenda), through the provision of specific development actions and incentives (e.g. World Banks' financial support to local development, EU cohesion policy etc.), or even through the development of rules and regulations to be taken on board by countries (e.g. as in the case of those areas in which the European Union detains direct competence).

The course addresses the issues outlined above, in order to provide students with a critical comparison of selected territorial governance and spatial planning systems in Europe, as well as an informed perspective on the institutional and operational influence of transnational organizations over domestic contexts, with particular attention to the European Union.

Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi

The course aims to convey knowledge concerning:

• Main theories and analytical frames used to define and explore spatial governance and planning systems;
• spatial governance and planning systems in key European countries;
• institutional reasons of the EU intervention in the field of spatial development and governance, main features of European spatial planning;
• nature of the process of European territorial governance and forms of interaction with the Member states spatial governance and planning systems;
• nature of other transnational and/or intergovernmental institutions that have a more or less explicit spatial development and planning agenda.

The course aims, therefore, to give the student the following skills:

• ability to distinguish the significant characters of a spatial governance and planning system;
• ability to recognize the main instruments of spatial planning in a country;
• ability to understand the institutional and operational complexity of spatial planning in Europe.
• ability to recognise and describe existing transnational and/or intergovernmental institutions and the main features of their territorial governance and spatial planning agendas

Programma

Modalità di insegnamento

The course is structured in a set of ex-cathedra lessons of two hours. It requires students to develop a written essay (individually or in pairs).

• Lectures

The lectures proposed in the course aim at providing the students with the necessary skills to analytically explore and compare spatial planning systems in different domestic contexts. They present relevant insights on spatial planning systems in selected countries in the European Union. They also deliver inputs on the role played by international organizations in influencing domestic territorial governance and spatial planning systems, and on the reasons behind this influence. All this is framed by an overview of the relations between administrative law and spatial planning, the role of public entities, and the functioning of European Union directives and regulations.

• Written essay

Individually or divided in pairs, students are required to produce a written essay focusing on a topic chosen among the following list:

• Apply the comparative framework proposed in the lessons to explore the territorial governance and spatial planning systems of a selected country.
• Discuss the influence of the European Union on the spatial planning system and/or practice of a selected country.
• Present and reflect upon a specific spatial planning instrument and/or practice identified in the literature, from the perspective of administrative law. 

Rules of the game

• The countries, instruments and/or practices to be analysed by the working groups can be located inside or outside the European Union, but CANNOT OVERLAP with those dealt with in the lessons;
• The country, instrument and/or practice to be analysed by each working group must be presented to and agreed with the course instructor BY WEEK 3 (October the 19th, 2023);

• Each essay should consist of around 3-4.000 words, including references and notes, and follow the authors’ guidelines provided by the course instructors
• Each essay should be based on a thorough literature review, and cite/quote relevant references (relevant references consist of scientific projects’ reports, journal articles and book chapters and policy documents);
• Relevant references should be mentioned at the end of the text in the essays’ bibliography;
• The essays must be delivered to the course instructor via email, in both word and pdf format, BEFORE the end of the year (December the 31st, 2023). Late deliveries will NOT be accepted.
• The essays will account for a maximum of 8 points, that will contribute to the working groups students’ final score.

Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

Students that participate to more than 75% of the classes are considered “Attending students”. 

The finale grade of attending students consists of the combination of

(a) the results of a written examination (maximum of 24 points).

There are 12 open-ended questions in the written examination, DRAWING ON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED DURING THE CLASSES (SLIDES + NOTES). Each question must be answered in a maximum of 10 lines within 2 hours of the examination. Students may NOT consult lecture notes (or any other source) during the exam. Each question is worth a maximum of 2 points.

(b) Project/Work Group Paper Assessment (maximum 8 points). See section 2.b above

Students that participate to less than 75% of the classes are considered “Non-attending students”. 

The final grade of Non-attending students consists of the combination of:

(a) The results of a written examination (maximum 12 points).

The written examination will consist of 12 open questions, DRAWING ON THE INFORMATION PROVIDED DURING THE CLASSES (SLIDES + NOTES). Each question must be answered in a maximum of 10 lines within 2 hours of the exam. Students may NOT consult lecture notes (or any other source) during the exam. Each question is worth a maximum of 1 points.

(b) The result of an oral examination DRAWING ON BOTH THE INFORMATION PROVIDED DURING THE CLASSES AND ON MAIN READINGS - (maximum 12 points)

(c) Project/Work Group Paper Assessment (maximum 8 points). See section 2.b above

The study materials of the course consist of (i) the slides of the lectures, (ii) specific texts (papers and/or book chapters) pertinent to each lecture, that will be indicated by the lecturers in due time and (iii) students’ individual notes.

In particular, participation to the lectures is required and students are required to collect their notes individually. To facilitate this activity, the slides of the lectures will be made available in time on the teaching web-portal.

Other texts (books, essays, reports, scientific articles, web-links, movies) will be suggested during the course in relation to the topics discussed.

Among them:

• Janin Rivolin U. (2012), Planning systems as institutional technologies: a proposed conceptualization and the implications for comparison, Planning Practice and Research, 27(1), pp. 63-85. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02697459.2012.661181
• Janin Rivolin U. (2017), Global crisis and the systems of spatial governance and planning: a European comparison, European Planning Studies, 25(6), pp. 994-1012. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09654313.2017.1296110  
• Berisha E., Cotella G., Janin Rivolin U., Solly A., (2020), Spatial governance and planning systems and the public control of spatial development: a European typology, European Planning Studies, online, 1-20. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09654313.2020.1726295
• Faudi A. (2010) “European Spatial Planning: Past, Present and Future”, Town Planning Review, 81 (1), pp. 1-22.
• Cotella, G. (2020). How Europe hits home? The impact of European Union policies on territorial governance and spatial planning. Géocarrefour, 94(94/3). https://journals.openedition.org/geocarrefour/15648 
• Blanc, F., Cabrera, J. E., Cotella, G., García, A., & Sandoval, J. C. (2022). Does Planning Keep its Promises? Latin American Spatial Governance and Planning as an Ex-Post Regularisation Activity. Planning Practice & Research, 1-22. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02697459.2022.2042921

• Materiale didattico
• Bacheca appelli
• Orario lezioni
• Vai a Moodle
• Registrati a questo insegnamento
• Studenti registrati
• Invia email agli studenti registrati
• Esporta tabella