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UT-38 | Urban Culture and Public Space

Optional course, 2nd semester | Hours/Week: 2C | ECTS Credits: 2

Titular:

lect.dr.arh. Gabriel Pascariu

Learning outcomes:

The course aims to get the students familiar to present urban policies in the European Union, with the concepts of urban culture and public space. For the last two decades, in the member states of the European Union, the urban regeneration of the central areas as well as of the periphery has been granted particular interest, as a response to deindustrialisation and other social and economic processes. Under the circumstances, the reconsideration of the built-up and cultural heritage became important and a major objective of EU programmes and objectives and of the integrated urban interventions. The urban integrated development is also connected to new forms of urban governance.

Content:

Titles of lectures:
1. Introduction to urban culture and public space concepts
2. European concepts of sustainable city development and the Leipzig Charter
3. Public space: evolution, functional, social, economic, and environmental role
4. Efficient management of the public space: from government to governance
5. Critical aspects of public space management: case studies
6. Urban culture in the city: colours, materials, shapes
7. Urban culture in the city: social, economic, cultural life
8. Readability of the public space in central and pericentral areas
9. Cultural heritage and cultural landscape: identity, recognition, intervention
10. Urban actors, urban culture and public space
11. urban regeneration and the experience of the URBAN European programme
12. Integrated urban development: an efficient instrument to improve the public space and promote forms of urban culture
Practical works:
1. Direct observation fiche of a public space in a central /pericentral area (land research)
2. Photo-reportage on urban culture
3. Text analysis and intervention exercises

Teaching Method:

Lectures ex-cathedra, debates, interactive presentations

Assessment:

exam and exercises and tests during the semester /practical exercises

Bibliography:

1. Benevolo, L. – Oraşul în istoria Europei /City in European History, ed. Polirom, 2003
2. Doicescu, O., - (1983), Despre arhitectură – scrieri, cuvântări /About architecture - writings, speaches, ed. Tehnică, Buc.
3. Habermas, J., - (2005), Sfera publică şi transformarea ei structurală /Public sphere and its structural transformation, ed. Comunicare.ro, Buc.
4. Lynch, K., – (1960), The image of the city, The M.I.T Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Londra.
5. Mihăilescu, V., - (2009), Etnografii urbane – cotidianul văzut de aproape / Urban ethnographies - nearby daily life, ed. Polirom, Iaşi.
6. Mihali, C. (coordonator), - (2005), Artă, tehnologie şi spaţiu public / Art, technology and public space, ed. Paidea, Buc.
7. Pippidi, A., - (2002), Istorie şi urbanism /History and urbanism, ed. Do-minoR, Iaşi.
8. Sandu, D (coord.) et. all, - (2006), Viaţa socială în România urbană /Social life in urban Romania, ed. Polirom, Iaşi.
9. Trişcu, A., - (1985), Spaţii urbane pietonale /Urban pedestrian areas, ed. Tehnică, Buc.
10. Ţurlea, C., - (2006), Arhitectura şi spaţiile publice. Intercondiţionări dintre spaţiul construit, comanda socială şi normele de drept /Architecture and public space. Interconnections between built-up space, social demand and legal framework, ed. Cadmos.
11. Charta of Amsterdam, European Council or Town Planners (ECTP), 1985.
12. The New Charter of Athens, ECTP - Vision for Cities in the 21 century, Lisbon, 2003.
13. Partnership with the Cities - the URBAN Community Initiative, 2003, EC.
14. The Leipzig Charta for European Sustainable Cities, 2007, EC.
15. Toledo Declaration on Sustainble Cities Development, 2010, EC.
16. Promoting sustainable urban development in Europe, 2009, CE
17. magazines: „Architecture d’aujourd’hui”, „Urbanisme”, „Urbanismul” şi „Urbanismul – serie nouă /new series”

Notes:

Evaluation of students takes place along the semester and by the end of the course as well. The final mark is composed of practical and theoretical activities, evaluated separately. The weight will be: 50% activity during the semester (20% exercises and 30% project) and 50% examination during the examination session (essays).