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Uw zoekacties: International New Towns Association

0017 International New Towns Association

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History
Formation
Born in the UK
Villes Nouvelles * 
The USA: Real Estate and the Free Market
Conflict of Interests
Founding
Development
Organisation
The organization was and is simple: INTA takes pride in its compact, non-bureaucratic structure. *  There is a General Assembly of all paying members. This meets at the annual congress and determines the general policy.
The Governing Board, composed of representatives of the various countries and chosen by the General Assembly, is the most important general administrative body. Every two years, it chooses a president *  and an Executive Committee, consisting of 15 members. In addition, there is a General Secretariat led by a General Secretary with executive tasks.
There are several different categories of members: ‘national members’ (1991: 3.5 per cent), ‘corporate members’ (1991: 63.3 per cent) and ‘individual members’ (1991: 33.2 per cent). *  The members come principally from the public sector (1991: 61.6 per cent), but the private sector is also relatively well-represented (1991: 13.9 per cent). In 1991, the proportion of designers was 11.9 per cent, but academics formed at that time only 3.8 per cent of all members. * 
Information about member numbers is difficult to retrieve. At an election in 1994, there were seven national members (Egypt, Israel, the Netherlands, Turkey, France, Taiwan and the UK) registered, 95 institutional, 50 individual and 14 honorary members; in total 740 voting members from 35 countries. *  An acquisition letter from 1999 refers to 1000 members in 47 countries.
Activities
Annual Congresses
Advisory Panels
Other Activities
0017 International New Towns Association
Activities
Other Activities
The annual congresses and panels formed the principle component of the INTA programme. Considering the extremely limited staff, this was often a heavy, sometimes too heavy burden. The documentation function mentioned in the statutes never really got off the ground. The relatively small number of books and other documentation, often a coincidental by-product of INTA’s own activities, were principally for INTA’s own use.
Congresses, seminars and summer courses were still organized incidentally but, out of sheer necessity, they were generally responses to already existing initiatives, due to their own limited staffing and financial means. INTA’s own small publishing house, INTA Press, published mainly congress and panel reports and additionally a few other external research reports. INTA also published its own modest bulletin.
A new development at the end of the 1990s was the large international research programmes about European spatial development, stimulated and subsidized by the EU. INTA participated in several of these programmes and fulfilled mainly the role of organization bureau.
Archive
Origins, Size and State
Treatment
Consulted Literature
F. Schaffer, The New Town Story, London, 1970
J. Roullier et al., Vingt-cinq ans de villes nouvelles en France, Paris, 1989
M. Provoost, ‘New Towns on the Cold War Frontier’, http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2006-06-28-provoost-en.html.

Kenmerken

Datering:
1976-2004
Omvang in m.:
18,5
Auteur toegang:
Beaten, J.-P.
Auteur:
Beaten, J.-P.
Openbaarheid:
Openbaar