Critical Planning and Design

Prof. dr. hc. Camilla Perrone has obtained a PhD in Urban, Regional and Environmental Design (2002). She works as an associate professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florence (UniFi) Italy, where she teaches Urban Policy and Spatial Strategic Planning and founded the Research Laboratory of Critical Planning and Design (2015).Her current fields of interest cover the following areas: critical planning and design; urban political ecology, diversity and interactive design; social, spatial and environmental justice; inter-scalar urbanisation and strategic planning; city and regional planning.Currently, she is President of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Study Center for Urban Policies (Urban@it). In addition, she serves in multiple roles in Italian, European and international Associations such as the Italian Society of Urban Planners (SIU), AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning), Inura (International Networkof Urban Research and Action).

• Introduction: Critical planning and design: Walking through roots and dissenting imaginations.- Part 1: Roots.- Giancarlo Paba’s trilogy of Luoghi comuni (Common Places, 1998), Movimenti urbani (Urban Movements, 2003), Corpi urbani (Urban Bodies, 2010): Influential Italian ‘critical planning’ thinking.- Ildefonso Cerdà, Teoría General de la Urbanización, 1867: An innovative approach.- L’Ordine politico della Comunità (The Political Order of Community) 2014: Concrete community and territorial principle in Adriano Olivetti’s thought.- All the layers of an ecological commitment at the frontier: Ian McHarg, Design with Nature, 1969.- L' Architecture de survie (1978) is back talking to EU cities in crisis: The provocative message by Yona Friedman as a key for the present and future urban agenda.- Part 2: Planning pathways.- John Friedmann, The Good Society (1979): Panning pathways for a just society.- David Harvey’s Urbanization of Capital (1985): Why it helped me so much.- A place in the world? Places, Cultures and Globalization, 1995. Doreen Massey’s lessons: Is the world really shrinking or is the geography of the world teaching us openness and diversity?.- Patsy Healey and Collaborative Planning (2005): Re-thinking democracy in the ‘reasoning in public’ arena.- Utopian tension: Sandercock’s inspiring journey “Towards Cosmopolis” (1998).- Zwischenstadt | Inbetween city. Thomas Sieverts, Cities Without Cities: An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt, 2004.- Part 3: Conceptual frames.- Inquiry and change: The troubled attempt to understand and shape society, 1990: The radical contribution of Charles E. Lindblom’s self-guiding society and probing volitions.- Rediscussing Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia, 1974.- Property titles to land and issues of distributive justice.- Blade Runner, 1982. Do Androids dream of electric sheep?- Philip K Dick’s science fiction and Maschinenmenschen in Metropolis.- Max Weber, Die Stadt (1922), English edition, Max Weber, The City,edited and traslated by Don Martindale and Gertrude Neuwirth, The Free Press, 1958.- Antonio Gramsci and the prison notebooks.- Le droit à la ville, 1968: Reading Lefebvre’s the right to the city in planning perspective.- The trouble with Henri: The production of urban space – from theory to research.- Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Mille Plateaux, 1980: "The good use of philosophy".- Georges Didi-Huberman, La survivance des lucioles (2009). The thickness of time: going beyond the surface of the present to understand contemporary territories.