The Selfmade Land Resúmenes (1.º edición)

This is a document that answers the questions: Drivers for urban growth? Instruments available for planning? Scale of planning? The ones doing the planning? - for all the eras discussed in the different lectures, and the chapters in The Selfmade Land

This summary of the Chapter: 'An Urban crisis' gives a profound insight into the reconstruction of the Netherlands between the years of 1970 - 1990. Changes which took place were the shift from top-down bureaucratic planning style (blueprint) to bottom-up process oriented style of planning, the comeback of the Urban renewal especially adressed for local residents as well as the transformation of the town centres into sociocultural forums of community. The document's layout helps not only to ...

This summary of the Chapter: 'A Modern Nation' gives a profound insight into the age of modernity and movement which took place between 1930 - 1960. As with the other Chapters of this book, the focus lies especially on the development of The Netherlands. It provides insights into the rapid spatial transformation of The Netherlands after World War II and explains why modernism became predominant in urban design for this time area. The document's layout helps not only to read the information in a...

Chapter 1 of The Selfmade Land, including the outline of the book (1.4)

Lecture notes Literature Summary

This is a document that answers the questions: Drivers for urban growth? Instruments available for planning? Scale of planning? The ones doing the planning? - for all the eras discussed in the different lectures, and the chapters in The Selfmade Land

This summary of the Chapter: 'A Modern Nation' gives a profound insight into the age of modernity and movement which took place between 1930 - 1960. As with the other Chapters of this book, the focus lies especially on the development of The Netherlands. It provides insights into the rapid spatial transformation of The Netherlands after World War II and explains why modernism became predominant in urban design for this time area. The document's layout helps not only to read the information in a...

This summary of the Chapter: 'An Urban crisis' gives a profound insight into the reconstruction of the Netherlands between the years of 1970 - 1990. Changes which took place were the shift from top-down bureaucratic planning style (blueprint) to bottom-up process oriented style of planning, the comeback of the Urban renewal especially adressed for local residents as well as the transformation of the town centres into sociocultural forums of community. The document's layout helps not only to ...

Lecture notes Literature Summary

Chapter 1 of The Selfmade Land, including the outline of the book (1.4)

Comprehensive summary of chapters 1, 2, 3, 6 and 8 of 'The Selfmade Land' written by Van der Cammen and De Klerk. This book is used in the course Urbanism & Planning.

Samenvatting over de hoofdstukken 1 tm 4, 6 en 8.

The nature of planning - Selfmade land