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City Visions 1910 | 2010 in Glasgow

City Vision 1910 I 2010 Exhibition:
Urban Planning in Berlin, London, Paris and Chicago 1910 and 2010

City Vision 1910 I 2010, a major new exhibition that can currently be seen at The Lighthouse, celebrates the centenary of the ‚General Town Planning Exhibition in Berlin‘ 1910 – a key event in terms of promoting urban planning and design. Displaying visionary projects from four cities – Berlin, London, Paris and Chicago – the exhibition takes a fresh look at the ideas and projects from 100 years ago and places them alongside new work shaping these major urban centres today.

The exhibition provides an opportunity to stimulate discussion around key issues in the transformation and regeneration of our cities, particularly in the context of urban planning. It aims to inspire policy makers, local communities, practitioners and members of the general public in relation to how good ideas can be realised.

Exhibition Background

The 1910 „General Town Planning Exhibition“ in Berlin helped establish town planning as a profession with its own visions, principles and methods. In August 2010, sections of the exhibition were presented at the International Town Planning Conference in London, organised by the Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA). It was the first time that an exhibition had given a comprehensive account of the reality of the built environment of metropolitan areas in the industrial age. The exhibition’s message was that the problems of large cities could only be overcome with a multi-disciplinary approach to town planning.

The City Visions 1910 | 2010 exhibition celebrates the centenary of these exhibitions and compares two moments in time: 1910 and 2010. The exhibition concentrates on four metropolitan cities – Berlin, Paris, London and Chicago. It features outstanding urban planning projects from 1910 and 2010 which demonstrate how planners have sought to tackle the challenges that are facing our cities.

Shown at the Architecture Forum in the Berlin University of Technology (TU) from October to December 2010, the exhibition attracted over 4,000 visitors.

The City Visions 1910 | 2010 exhibition is being brought to Glasgow by the Museum of Architecture Berlin University of Technology, Architecture and Design Scotland, Design for London and the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development.

The UK Exhibition ’City Visions 1910 I 2010’ was curated by Cordelia Polinna (Berlin University of Technology/Think Berl!n), Tobias Goevert and Kalin Coromina (Design for London). Exhibition design: Axel Feldmann (Objectif)

Location
Gallery 2
Level 2
The Lighthouse
11 Mitchell Lane
Glasgow G1 3NU

The Lighthhouse is open 10.30 am to 5.00 pm daily.

(This text was originally posted on the A+DS website.)

CITY VISIONS 1910|2010

Berlin Paris London Chicago
100 years General Urban Design Exhibition in Berlin
(„Allgemeine Städtebau-Ausstellung in Berlin“)

Venue: Architekturforum of Technical University Berlin
Dates: October 15th – December 10th 2010, opening on 14th October, 7pm
Tuesday to Friday 2-8pm, Saturday 12-6pm

In autumn 2010, just in time for the 100th anniversary of the “General Urban Design Exhibition Berlin 1910” the Berlin University of Technology (TU) will show the exhibition CITY VISIONS 1910|2010. The exhibition CITY VISIONS 1910|2010 is a project of the initiative “National Urban Development Policy” by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development as well as a contribution of the TU Berlin to the “Berlin Year of Science 2010”. Initiators of the project are Harald Bodenschatz and Hans-Dieter Nägelke (TU Berlin) in cooperation with Harald Kegler (Bauhaus University Dessau) and Wolfgang Sonne (TU Dortmund). Christina Gräwe, who has worked at the German Museum of Architecture in Frankfurt am Main and has curated the latest exhibition about Martin Elsaesser, will curate CITY VISIONS 1910|2010.
The German capital Berlin is known, today as well as 100 years ago, as a laboratory to test new visions and ways of urban design. By means of the urban design exhibition in 1910 Berlin for the first time successfully compared itself with the great metropolises in Europe and the USA. The task then was to find answers to the challenges of an ever faster growing city of the industrial age. Today, 100 years later, Berlin presents itself again with an international view. Now as a model metropolis in the post-industrial society in the context of climate change.
CITY VISIONS 1910|2010 shows Berlin as a centre of competence for urban design yesterday (1910) and today (2010). The exhibition will not only show a choice of the great plans from 1910 but present, recent and future projects of urban design for Berlin. As well as in 1910, ideas and visions of other remarkable cities will be depicted: Paris, London and Chicago.
In 1910 London was the Mecca of the garden city movement. Then the aim was to decentralise the city. In 2010 London represents itself completely different – as model of recentralisation, of the successful renaissance of the centre. The Paris of 1910 was mainly influenced by the great visions and plans of Eugène Hénard. “Grand Paris” today shows signs of a new national urban development policy, the background of which is an initiative of president Sarkozy. In Chicago the famous plan by Daniel Burnham to restructure the city that had been growing chaotically was introduced in 1909, initiated by the Commercial Club of Chicago. With the strategic plan Chicago Metropolis 2020 the Commercial Club again presents a plan for the sustainable development of the metropolitan area. Furthermore in 2009, Chicago presents itself with exhibitions, concerts and lectures to the public for the 100th anniversary of the Burnham plan. This great plan was well received – also in the urban design exhibition in Berlin 1910.
All four cities resemble a transatlantic perspective which was of high importance in 1910 and which is once again of growing importance today. The development of cities in Europe and in the U.S. is a global issue. Not only because of the resources that are used in these agglomerations, but also because of the visionary urban design concepts that have been and will continue to be developed here.
CITY VISIONS 1910|2010 will be shown from October, 15th until December 10th at the architecture forum in the TU Berlin at the Ernst-Reuter-Platz. Fascinating and outstanding documents and models from the collection of the Museum of Architecture of the TU Berlin will be shown along with pieces from international collections. A catalogue will be published shortly beforehand.