Sketches from the Urban Internationale. Voluntary Societies, International Organizations and US Foundations at the City's Bedside 1900-1960

Sketches from the Urban Internationale. Voluntary Societies, International Organizations and US Foundations at the City's Bedside 1900-1960

[SHS:HIST] Humanities and Social Sciences/History

city planning

municipal government

International Union of Local Authorities

International Federation of Town Planning

1313

Public Administration Clearing House

Spelman Fund of New York

Rockefeller Foundation

Ford Foundation

philanthropy

non governmental organizations

inter governmental organizations

international associations

international conferences

The international milieu of town planning is an exciting web of people, books, exhibits, congresses or ideas. Its exploration is a tool to complete our national-oriented understandings of the ways in which the urban scene was conceived in the 20th century. This article sets its exploration in the wider context of the "Urban Internationale", this sphere dedicated to the declensions of "urban issues" such as town planning, housing and urban government. It is proposed that the IU is structured around three poles: volontary associations, international institutions and the big US philantropic Foundations. The evolution of those poles, and the relations amongst them, shaped the way in which the 'urban issues' were defined and treated.

Saunier, Pierre-Yves

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

ISSN:0309-1317

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

1999

FRE

article in peer-reviewed journal

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00002822

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/00/35/16/PDF/SKETCHEStraduction.pdf