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Papers by Marco Giliberti

Issues such as depletion of the biosphere, earth's increased environmental fragility, the new dem... more Issues such as depletion of the biosphere, earth's increased environmental fragility, the new demographic trend, and the necessity to feed a planet populated by billions, all these issues, will influence the science of curriculum design in the upcoming years. Task of the educational research appears to be that of looking for more effective strategies: to answer to environmental challenges i.e. include environmental education in the teacher education curriculum. Drawing upon a set of teacher education theories and practices, this study illustrates a set of possible implications of the garden on teacher education for environmental sustainability. The garden is here specifically considered a place suitable for education for sustainability and curriculum development for teacher education. The need for updating the curriculum is also an opportunity to rethink the school practices i.e. a pragmatic set of actions dedicated to human development. How integrate environmental education in the curricula? The paper will draw upon a set of additional questions i.e. Can installing a productive school garden enhance teacher preparation? Can the practice of farming promote ideas such as localism and food self-sufficiency? How to link learning gardens and urban gardens?

Although many old sites are well preserved, many sites of historical and cultural value in the Un... more Although many old sites are well preserved, many sites of historical and cultural value in the United States are disappearing due to their abandonment. In some cases, the condition of these sites makes restorers' work very difficult. In other cases, in order to recover blighted local economies, administrations and cultural institutions are adopting strategic spatial plans to attract tourists or accommodate historical theme parks. However, recent scholarly interest in the interaction of history and collective memory has highlighted these sites. Even if the memory of some historical sites is fading quickly, this memory is receiving greater attention than in the past in order to enhance local identity and strengthen the sense of community. This article examines a number of plans and strategies adopted to give shape to the memorial landscape in Alabama, thereby documenting and exploring some key relations between city planning and the commemoration of African-American history.

After the Civil War, when socio-political reorganisation was urgently needed, American universiti... more After the Civil War, when socio-political reorganisation was urgently needed, American universities contributed to the process of re-establishing the internal equilibrium of power within the nation. Thus an attempt was made to reinforce the political parties and develop regions as politically discrete territorial entities that were relatively manageable. In the twentieth century the effect of this policy of local centralisation at the regional level, in conjunction with the opportunity offered by the need to develop more effective city governance, was translated into the awareness that a major contribution of academia to politics is to help re-establish the parameters of governability for the entire country. With the goal of document-ing and exploring some key relations between campus plans and city planning in Chicago, this paper illustrates a number of campus plans and planning strategies in which "the city" can be thought of as a metonym for the entire society. Nexuses between campus and city planning can be revealed from the creation of the campus of the University of Chicago in 1890 to the first half of the 1960s.

Teaching Documents by Marco Giliberti

This is a new course on Campus Planning in the US with a special focus on the University of Iowa.... more This is a new course on Campus Planning in the US with a special focus on the University of Iowa. The first part of the course explores the origin of American campuses and analyzes key examples (e.g., the University of Virginia and Chicago). It investigates key transitions in the practice of campus planning, and the socio- economic impact of campuses, especially in relation to their surrounding cities, towns and regions. The second part focuses on the University of Iowa’s campus, paying particular attention to its Neoclassical, Gothic, Modernist, and more contemporary design features and highlighting the physical relations between universities and towns in general, and between the University of Iowa’s campus and Iowa City, in particular. The third part of the course focuses on the interactions between campus planning, emergency preparedness and hazard planning. It focuses on the flood of 2008 and its implications for the University of Iowa’s campus and includes flood recovery and sustainable flood mitigation methods. It gives special attention to sustainability initiatives and green design features on campuses, energy conservation, low impact design for storm water management, etc. It addresses such question as: How should the University of Iowa’s campus be reconfigured in light of flood risks? How can the recovery from the catastrophic effects of floods best be planned? The course will go more deeply into selected questions: How can we make a campus that is in a floodplain sustainable? How do we restore and rehabilitate severely damaged UI’s buildings and grounds?

Talks by Marco Giliberti

Established in Alabama in the sixth decade of the nineteenth century, Auburn University' campus i... more Established in Alabama in the sixth decade of the nineteenth century, Auburn University' campus is now like a city of 30,000 c.ca. Land use includes 1,843 land acres and 11,000 parking spaces. AU campus and the city of Auburn often overlap. How the relationship between Auburn downtown + AU campus can be redefined in light of current practice of urban design? This research draws upon the concept of In-Between and its implication on the re-design of the university' urban edge.
This research focuses on the corner of the Auburn University’ campus (Toomer’s Corner) as corner without boundaries. In this study even the pastoral idea of the Land Grant university is influenced by the urban model. I here explore and investigates the idea of rural urbanism and its contemporary project. Through my design investigation I arrived at the notion of the campus without boundaries. So I had a way to deconstruct Toomer’s Corner by introducing a burned chamber and a mound in the corner of the AU campus. After a series of pen and ink investigation: a figure-ground analysis shows the planning logic behind the pastoral idea that dominates the AU campus. The analysis also shows the latent and informal aspect of the AU campus. The AU campus is then a porous figure. From another hand, site analysis show potential connection between the AU campus and Auburn. And show that Toomer’s Corner as icon of the city. The Corner of the campus is marked as an edge condition. A wide range of social practices occurs at Toomer’s Corner. Any planning and design researcher must take this flexible and adaptive capacity into account. An exploration of the Corner without boundaries implies the introduction of an organic form as a burnt chamber, which is in the corner of the AU campus. Finally, a very simple gesture can engage complexity. The relationship between the campus and the city can be reconsidered in Auburn. Further investigation implies exploration of different land grant campuses and possibility for theoretical discussion about the campus-city paradigm as a new model for urban design.

How to conceptualize a new type of museum for celebrating African-American history in the Southea... more How to conceptualize a new type of museum for celebrating African-American history in the Southeastern United States? How to better use, imagine, plan and re-design building and spaces of African-American history?

Books by Marco Giliberti

A new urban design paradigm emerges. The American University is committed to adopting a set of st... more A new urban design paradigm emerges. The American University is committed to adopting a set of strategies to increase urbanity on campus. This set of strategies comprehends the possibility to physically strengthen campus and city, and to create the precondition for a more cohesive community. In this fringing, it appears clear that, the study of the physical edge between campus and city is an opportunity for campus landscape designers to find workable solutions for both the university and the city. However, if one hand this initial operation is welcomed as a first move toward the resolution of old conflicts such as the town-gown conflict, on another it may not be sufficient to reframe campus-city relationship in the future. How can we improve urbanity on campus? Can campus planners propose a different kind of urbanism? What cutting-edge landscape design strategies can be used to increase university's interest in the idea of public space?