Environmental Engineering for Sustainable Development

First part Introduction to urban and regional planning; economic development, underdevelopment, sustainable development, and various forms of planning; concepts of landscape, environment, land and territory; functionalistic approach, holistic approach, complexity; graphic language, cartography, thematic maps; Geographic Information Systems and Information Systems. (15 hours) Second part The main instruments of planning in the Italian law system: the cycle of compulsory purchase, urban planning “equalization”, structural plan and operation plan; ecological planning and the relationship between analysis and project in the construction of planning processes. (15 hours) Third part Italian homogeneous zones and town planning standards; morphological approach and urban structure; mobility infrastructures; the vicious circle of private and public transportation and the role of park and ride sites; (15 hours) Fourth part Urban Geography and central places theory; areal model and network model; local economic development problems; land suitability, land capability, elements of landscape ecology. Exercises and development of a project concerning a structural municipal plan (15 hours)

Teaching materials prepared by the professors are available on the pages of the two course modules hosted on: elearning.uniroma1.it