The joint European post – Master in Urbanism is focused on a set of key issues which reflect contemporary challenges within cities and territories. The issues frame the design studios and provide the students with a structure to orient their individual educations tracks.
POST-INDUSTRIAL SITES
Investigates obsolete and marginal urban areas that provide new opportunities for urban restructuring. The territorial scale, the notion of ‘shrinking cities’ requires re-thinking of the notion of development.
CULTURAL LANDSCAPES
Deals with a number of issues, including conservation through transformation, planning based on revaluation of heritage resources and identity in relationships to globalization.
TERRITORIES OF DISPERSION
Deals with the extended use of the territory, including new ways of working and living. New type of settlements, these territories need to re-think types and techniques of infrastructure.
MOBILITY AND NETWORK CITIES
Focuses on innovations anddevelopment in technology and infrastructural systems which allow for the re-conceptualization of cities – such as urban polycentric regions, new centralities, urban agglomerations, city clusters, airport cities, etc.
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