Philanthropy and public enterprise: International exhibitions and the modern town planning movement, 1889–1913

Meller, Helen

doi:10.1080/02665439508725825

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“…Ward, ; Friedman, ; Ward, ; Harris and Moore, ). This work is deeply rooted, drawing on earlier writings by Sutcliffe (), Meller (), Saunier () and others. On the whole, the major strengths of the work have been empirical, detailing the travels of particular architects and planners, firms, blueprints, models and ideas.…”

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A Springtime Journey to the Soviet Union: Postwar Planning and Policy Mobilities through the Iron Curtain

Cook

Ward

2014

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article builds upon a relatively small but growing literature in geography, planning and cognate disciplines that seeks to understand the variegated geographies and histories of policy mobilities. The article uses a case study of an exchange trip between town planners in the Soviet Union and the UK between 1957 and 1958. It focuses on the experiences of the British planners in the Soviet Union and sets the tour within the wider context of a fluctuating and sometimes turbulent history of Anglo‐Soviet politics, travels and connections. In doing this, the article makes three arguments: first, there is much to be gained by bringing together the geography‐dominated policy mobilities literature with that on exchanges and visits by architects, engineers and planners. Secondly, the greater sensitivity to the histories of policy mobilities allows contemporary studies to be contextualized in the longer history of organized learning between different urban professions. Thirdly, despite the long history of policy mobilities, what differentiates the current era from previous eras is the prominent ‘knowledge intermediary’ roles now played by consultancies and think tanks. As the article will demonstrate, it was branches of government and professional bodies, rather than consultancies and think tanks, that tended to dominate such roles previously.

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Section: Relational Cities and Mobile Policiesmentioning

confidence: 81%

A Springtime Journey to the Soviet Union: Postwar Planning and Policy Mobilities through the Iron Curtain

Cook

Ward

2014

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Other exhibitions were held to promote new urban plans, such as the McMillan Plan for Washington in 1902 or Daniel Burnham's plan for Chicago sponsored by the Commercial Club of Chicago in 1909. Yet others occurred in parallel with congresses of the International Garden City and Town Planning Association or with international architectural congresses, such as that of London in 1906, which displayed works of major planners, including Raymond Unwin, Josef Stübben, Charles Buls, and Eugène Hénard (Meller, 1995).…”

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Urban Planning, Competitions and Exhibitions

Hein¹

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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Public and private institutions or stakeholders use exhibitions and competitions as means of urban planning to stimulate the production and exchange of ideas and as tools to reshape urban form as well as governance. Competitions aim to elicit ideas from various people -mostly professionals, but occasionally also the general public -on a defined topic, including urban plans. Exhibitions, both educational and exemplary, provide spaces respectively for the comparison of architectural and urban representations or actual construction. Both methods have long histories of changing the goals and themes that have evolved with the shifting definition of the profession.

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“…5 Similarly, the town planning movement was founded on international networks of exhibitions and exchanges between municipalities and philanthropists. 6 Moreover, by hosting 'hallmark events', municipalities attracted investment and promoted urban development, as in the case of the Olympic games. 7 With the exception of the fact-finding missions to Paris of Glasgow's municipal officials from the 1860s and the deputations from Birmingham city council to study German planning practices during the 1900s, British municipalities have been absent from much of this work.…”

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The internationalization of fire protection: in pursuit of municipal networks in Edwardian Birmingham

Ewen

2005

Urban History

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Through a case study of Birmingham fire brigade, this article examines the plethora of international networking activities undertaken during the late Victorian and early Edwardian period. Birmingham fire brigade, under the control of Alfred Tozer, led British municipal participation in early international fire networks, attending international congresses and exhibitions in Berlin and London, and also visiting continental cities to inspect fire brigades and their appliances. Locating the study firmly within historical debates concerning the embryonic international municipal movement, this article demonstrates that municipal institutions participated in networking activities as part of a policy learning and knowledge-transfer process.

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Philanthropy and public enterprise: International exhibitions and the modern town planning movement, 1889–1913

Cited by 22 publications

References 8 publications

A Springtime Journey to the Soviet Union: Postwar Planning and Policy Mobilities through the Iron Curtain

A Springtime Journey to the Soviet Union: Postwar Planning and Policy Mobilities through the Iron Curtain

Urban Planning, Competitions and Exhibitions

The internationalization of fire protection: in pursuit of municipal networks in Edwardian Birmingham

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