The objectives of the Degree course in Regional, environmental and town planning can be thus summarized:
a) Education of experts capable of facing:
a1)the use of new technologies (information technologies, CAD, GIS, telematics) for the analysis, description, interpretation and evaluation of local and environmental transformations;
a2)the amelioration of historical town centres and urban and regional requalification.
a3)the protection and enhancement of cultural and environmental heritage both at a local and regional level.
b) Education of professionals for activities in the public administrations, such as control, management and evaluation of town and territory transformation processes and the prevision/implementation of complex programs and public works, with respect, in particular, to the indications and tools provided for by the European Union and to EU economic resources, as well as European development policies.
There could be no education in this field without taking into account the big changes in the need for planning (from the worsening of environmental problems at a global level, to the globalisation of economic and cultural dynamics, to new forms of unrest), changes which are straining the ethical tenets, the status, and the theoretical and methodological apparatus of planning itself.
These changes do affect not only the labour market and the birth of new professional profiles, but also all the needs, even social ones, to which the culture of planning is obliged to respond.
To achieve these objectives the Degree Course provides a set of theoretical-practical teachings aiming at the comprehension of territorial phenomena, not only from the theoretical point of view, but also through practical experimentations. These subjects include general issues as well as social science issues, related to the typical techniques and procedures of regional and town planning. Experimental courses are provided together with theoretical ones. These courses, names studios are related to general town, regional and environment issues, In these teachings the experimental reasons of the future profession are applied, and they will be object of further practical activities, during the stages provided at third year.
