URBAN AND REGIONAL ANALYSIS AND PLANNING

Students to be admitted to final test must provide a planning proposal developed during the course and the final examination will consist in the presentation and discussion of the project. It should be integrated with critical considerations voted to show their comprehension and acquired awareness of planning chief topics maturated in the design process.
The final work (which can also be developed in a group of not more than 4 members) shall consist of:

a) Poster 1 (A0 size). Survey. It must contain information about features of the selected area, a metropolitan and urban framework, critical interpretation of existing environmental, morphological, social and economic, demographic, planning conditions;
b) Poster 2 (A0 size). Detection of threats/potentialities. The board must list the significant critical points, underline potentials and resources to exploit in the new asset proposed for the selected area; also some project basic concepts;
c) Poster 3 (A0 size). Concept proposal. First and basic proposal for a new asset of the selected area, drawn up according to survey results; to the problems and resources detection, assessing the environmental and planning compatibility. The board must contain main proposed interventions for new residential developments, enhancement for public facilities, conservation or improving quality of rural or natural areas, green connections, infrastructure improvement for better and sustainable accessibility; indication for planning development;
d) Poster 4 (A0 size). Masterplan. It consists in the final design scheme for the new asset of the selected area, containing the most relevant planning development solutions, landscape enhancement proposals, zoning and building rules, detailed project for the different aspects for the suggested transformation;