Abstract
Abstract This paper focuses on the history of a 100-year tradition of organizing town planning exhibitions in Germany: In Berlin in 1910, as part of a competition to design new housing estates, it was decided to exhibit the contributions and results to the public. The two events could be seen as crucial for the development of modern town planning for their content as well as procedure (or theory and practice). With sharp criticism against the 19th century city, Berlin and elsewhere, which consisted mostly of the “famous” rented blocks on a grid road system with hardly any open space in between, the alternative concepts presented in the exhibition for more modest, lower housing estates surrounded by green and open spaces has to be seen as a new approach to urban life. Besides, new forms of green and open space, not just as trees planted along a road or some modest playground or little park, but as an urban network, were claimed as a basic need for better urban living conditions that would reinforce youth, ...
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