TERRITORIAL DESIGN AND GOVERNMENT
Coordinator: Prof. Fausto Curti
The Ph.D degree is aimed to prepare researchers and skilled professionals in the field of territorial governance and planning, urban development and management, projects design and evaluation for public administrations and the private sector, research centres, and universities.
The formative program assumes that many planners are involved with development not only from a regulatory position, but also proposing and managing actual projects at different scales. Emphasis in this course is placed on the improvement of the cultural understanding and the technical toolbox for a pro-active planning process able to interpret and master the economical, social, and jurisdictional dimensions of territorial projects and policies for a sustainable built environment. Comparative assessment of best practices and explorative design – at territorial, urban, and local scale – are the tools used to pursue more effective planning methods and techniques.
Students will be required to develop a research project among the following research streams:
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Spatial plan formats and tools;
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Role of the project in leading territorial change;
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Evaluation and management of urban projects and policies;
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Descriptions/interpretations of cities and territories;
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Decisions and governance;
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The doctoral candidates will be asked to reflect upon the traditions of planning and urban design within the Italian context, and the actual actions for mastering territorial change also exploiting international best practice comparisons. The latter will be achieved through the organization of international seminars and through an internship in international research centres, universities, and public administrations. The central importance assigned to the doctoral thesis determines the attribution of a significant quota of formative credits to the activities finalized to conceive and write the dissertation along all the three years, as well to the training on specific themes related to the final doctoral dissertation by an active partecipation to applied researches and workshops.
The PhD Program in Territorial Design and Governament will start in 2009 with XXIV cycle.
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