Scales and measures of the contemporary city

Research focus

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It’s taking form the necessity to promote the insertion of medium-small reality in the big space of flows; to study the effects on the city daily life, on the urban space, environment and territory; to formulate norms and instrumentations. It means: - to study the urban and morphological theoretical and practical evolution in the contemporary historic cities; - to experiment and verify the new buildings form types and the land uses in relationship with the new dimensional net scale; - to explore the landscape issues between ethics and esthetics; - to preserve memories and culture as significance of places, symbolic intermediary and spatial use to conserve the experience of a good relation between people and places. This is explained through: - formation of specialistic and diversified competences; - search of a graduality of possible solutions in relation with the rilevated questions; - experiments/applications of proposals, strategies and operating methodologies of territorial, urban, architectonic, social, economic, political, managerial character; - spreading and comparing the researches and experiments result through books and public events.

Dipartimento di afferenza

Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione (DIAP)

Docenti afferenti

Full Professors
Ernesto d’Alfonso
Giovanni Denti
Massimo Venturi Ferriolo
Assistant Professors
Antonella Contin