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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
Archive
Origins, Size and State
Treatment
0017 International New Towns Association
Archive
Treatment
A minimum of items from the archive have been destroyed. The following were removed:
- Detailed financial papers, such as bank statements. Financial summaries, however, have been preserved.
- Registration forms for activities, but only if printed lists were also present.
- Offers and accompanying letters without any informative value.
- Purely technical organizational correspondence (for example, hotel reservations).
- Triplicates (a maximum of two copies preserved).
For the organization of the archive, a choice has been made for four main categories:
- Formation,
- Organization,
- Activities and
- Documentation.
The category Activities, which contains by far the most material, has been further classified by type. In addition, chronological order has been kept. Only in the activities files was there sometimes still an original organization present. This has been left intact as far as possible, unless it would impede accessibility too greatly.
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