This section hosts the disciplines dealing with description, interpretation and design of human settlements and of their development – ranging from old centres to wide metropolitan areas, from territory to landscape.  The section’s research topics span from themes related to historic towns, cities and territories to multiethnicity, to tourism, to enhancement of monuments and sites, to road and transportation design, to estimative and economic side of thematic and cartographic description.

Coordinator: Francesco Lo Piccolo.
Location: palazzo Larderia, via dei Cartari.

Section members:

Full Professors
ICAR 21 Urban planning: Teresa Cannarozzo, Maurizio Carta, Giuseppe Gangemi, Nicola Giuliano Leone, Francesco Lo Piccolo, Carla Quartarone;

Associate Professors
ICAR 06 Topography: Patrizia Midulla;
ICAR 21 Urban planning: Ferdinando Trapani

Assistant Professors
ICAR 21 Urban planning: Giuseppe Abbate, Angela Badami, Giulia Bonafede, Teresa Cilona; Daniele Ronsivalle, Flavia Schiavo, Filippo Schilleci, Valeria Scavone, Ignazio Vinci;
ICAR 22 Economic topics for architecture: Maria Granata, Grazia Napoli;
M-GGR/01 Geography: Marco Picone