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Schot Moelijker, Juan (2024)

Health Elements within 20th-century Dutch Urban Planning: A comprehensive analysis on urban health: exploring the application of health elements within urban planning after the Second World War in Rotterdam and Amsterdam

Bachelor thesis | Urban Studies (BA)

The aim of this research is to investigate how health was fostered by urban planners after the Second World War in the cities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Firstly, this thesis will discuss the literature review that tackles urban health, the concept of health in the twentieth century, and postwar urban planning. This will be followed by a framework from secondary literature mentioned in the literature review on urban health and urban planning initiatives that impact health positively. This framework is used to analyse primary sources of postwar urban planning. The results indicated that postwar urban planners developed urban areas mostly to prevent infectious diseases and aimed for the creation of lively neighbourhoods through leisure. However, the spatial environment that was created unintentionally prospered health in different manners through the lens of the current perception of urban health.

urban health

Post-Second World War

The Netherlands

urban planning

modernist architecture

Author

Schot Moelijker, Juan

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Health

Supervisors

Dr. E.C. Walhout

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en