Urbanism & Planning

Very short summary of the pieces of the first batch of influential writers you have to know about for the midterm.

This is a summary of The City Reader - 6th edition. It contains various authors, namely: - Kingsley Davis - Gordon V. Childe - H.D.F. Kitto - Henri Pirenne - Friedrich Engels - Sam Bass Warner - Kenneth T. Jackson - Lewis Mumford - Louis Wirth - W.E.B. Du Bois - Elijah Anderson - Robert D. Putnam - Robert Bruegmann - Frederick Law Olmsted - Ebenezer Howard as read in The City Reader. Each chapter contains one author. Each author's life and work is described in a comprehensive manner. This sum...

This summary contains a big chunk of the material for the final exam for the course Urbanism & Planning (GESP1). It's divided into chapters which all discuss one lecture. Each chapter contains information from The City Reader, PowerPoints and stuff the lecturers said. To make it more useful, at the top of each chapter the attached literature is described. It contains information about the authors/collectives of authors: - Le Corbusier - Frank Lloyd Wright - Ernest W. Burgess, Hoyt, Harris & ...

The document contains a whole summary of the Urbanism and planning course. All the authors discussed and the other topics from lectures and the text books.

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.

The Urban Crisis - Selfmade Land

The nature of planning - Selfmade land

Arnstein

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