Gesp1 Samenvattingen, Aantekeningen en Examens

Summary of all lectures, and concerning writers in 'The City Reader', of Urbanism and Planning. For both the final exam & mid-term. For my final exam Urbanism & Planning in , I got a 8.2, so I hope (and think) that this summary can help you :)

Summary about all the chapters from Chris Couch' book "Urban Planning". The summary is in English. The summary has 38 pages for the first 8 chapters and then a copy of chapter 9 (conclusions) at the end. Good luck with your exams! Hope this helps you with your preperation :)

This document contents a summary of all writers from the City Reader that was mandatory to read in year 2021-2022 and notes of all lectures in that same year.

Complete summary of the literature for the mid-term of Urbanism & Planning (GESP1). Includes all the literature of both The City Reader and The Selfmade Land. Also includes images.

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...

Short summaries (only information relevant to the course of Urbanism and Planning) of the articles rom the city reader, connections are made between the articles. Also includes summaries of the movies shown in the lectures. The following articles are included in the summary: Davis "Urbanization of the Human Population”, Childe “The Urban Revolution”, Kitto “The Polis” ,Pirenne “City Origins” and “Citizens of European Civilization”, Engels ”The conditions of the working cla...

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 & ...

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...