Documents
– Course Manual 2011-2012

Assignments
– Garden City 22-2-2012

Community
– Facebook community page

Introduction
– General introduction on New Towns & themes

Literature

• 1. What kind of problem is the New Town?
  • art 1.1 New Towns become normal towns too (Kil)
  • art 1.2 Happy / Happy Hoogvliet (Provoost)

• 2. Ebenezer Howard and the start of the Garden City Movement
  • art 2.1 The Garden City Introduced (Ward)
  • art 2.2 The Experimental New Towns (Osborn)
  • art 2.3 The Garden City Campaign (Hardy)

• 3. New Towns in the communist block in the interbellum
  • art 3.1 Ideals in Concrete, introduction (Wagenaar)

• 4. The modernist New Town as export product to the developing world
  • art 4.1 New Towns of the Modernist Experiment (Provoost)

• 5. Contemporary New Town development in the emerging economies
  • art 5.1 The Chinese Dream, introduction (Hornsby)
  • art 5.2 New Urban China (Liauw)
  • art 5.3 Al Manakh articles

• 6. The design of the first generation Garden Cities, Siedlungen and Estates
  • art 6.1 Urban Forms, Londen Garden Cities (Panerai)
  • art 6.2 American New Towns, The Radburn idea

• 7. New towns in the 1940s and 50s: Stevenage & Nowa Huta
  • art 7.1 Evolution of the New Towns Policy (Osborn)
  • art 7.2 Stevenage (Osborn)

• 8. New towns in the 1960s and 70s: Milton Keynes & Toulouse Le Mirail
  • art 8.1 Changing goals, Milton Keynes (Llewelyn-Davies)
  • art 8.2 Ideology as an Achilles Heel (Vanstiphout)

• 9. Early sociological studies on life in New Towns
  • art 9.1 Social Life, Suburban Homogeneity & Conformity(Gans)
  • art 9.2 Urbanism & Suburbanism (Gans)
  • art 9.3 Suburban Neurosis (Clapson)

• 10. Contemporary sociological studies on urban culture and daily life in new cities
  • art 10.1 The Suburban Community Question (Lupi & Musterd)
  • art 10.2 Planning Lessons from 3 US New Towns (Forsyth)
  • art 10.3 New Towns as sustainable communities (Alexander)
  • art 10.4 How the suburbs happened (Baxandall)

Excursion-guides

• Noordoostpolder
  • De Noordoost polder dorpen
  • Noordoostpolder Towns - In Praise of Common Sense
  • Toekomstvisie Noordoostpolder 2030
• Westelijke Tuinsteden Amsterdam
• Milton Keynes