Urbanism and Planning

Summary of the lectures for the mid term on Urbanism and Planning

In the lectures movies are shown, in my year there were several questions both on the mid-term as on the final exam about these movies.

This is a list of all the contributors of the City Reader (and their most important topics) that are obligatory to read in the course. (however this is not a recplacement for the reading of the book!)

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

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...

Lecture Notes Literature Summary

Lecture notes Literature Summary

Lecture notes Literature Summary

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.