Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

The course presents the methods for analyzing urban and regional systems and their problems. Some basic concepts are introduced such as the meaning of urban planning, city, territory, environment, planning process and some fundamental urbanisitic tools. The types of urban investigations are declined for the different areas: demogafical, physical, historical, socio-economic, and for the different environmental matrices. The methods, tools and sources to be used to implement them are presented. Finally, we focus on the issue of risk and environmental assessments to address ex-ante or ex-post analysis.
Topics:
1. The land as a complex dynamic system. The basics of the spatial analysis of the land. The concepts of "territory" and "environment" and the limits of development. Structuring and territorial infrastructure. Land use and its effects on the environment.
2. The tools to know the land. Cartography as a tool of knowledge. Comparison between traditional and numerical cartography. The retrieval of map, statistical and environmental data. The query of official databases.
3. The tools for the management of spatial informations. Geographic information systems (GIS). The structure of a GIS. The different types of GIS. Raster and vectorial GIS. Laboratory exercises about software GIS.
4 The technical investigation of the land. The primary and secondary study on physical, historical, social and economic issues.
5. Main tools for urban planning. The urban plan and the Piano di Governo del Territorio of Lombardy Region. The technical investigation in the urban plans.
6.The environmental components and the Environmental State Analisys. Environemtnal Impact Assessment and Strategic Enviromental Assessment: tools for sustainable development.
7. The natural and anthropogenic risk. The study of areas with risk (or areas with different level of hazard, vulnerability and exposure), as subject of the spatial knowledge.