1910-1919

1911 - Socièté Française des Architectes-Urbanistes. The founders were Donat Alfred Agache, Marcel Aubertin, André Bérard, Leon Jaussely, H. Parently, Henri Prost, Jean Claude Nicholas Forestier and Edouard Redont, and Eugène Hénard was its first president. [URB, SPL, TDC]

1913 - Loi sur la protection des monuments historiques, France. [HER, LEG]

1913 – International Garden Cities and Town Planning Association, founded by Ebenezer Howard [URB]

1914 - Office Publique des Habitations à Bon Marché de la Seine, Henri Sellier, Mayor of Suresnes. This office planned to build fifteen Garden Cities, near Paris, though financial problems meant that only nine Garden Cities were actually built, among them Gennevilliers, Drancy, Stains, Les Lilas (destroyed in the 1970s) and Le Pré-Saint-Gervais. [URB, HOU, TDC]

1914 - The Royal Town Planning Institute, was founded. [URB, SPL, TDC]

1915 - Cities in Evolution - An Introduction to the Town Planning Movement and to the Study of Civics, Patrick Geddes. [URB, SPL]

1915 - London Town Planning Conference. [URB, TDC]

1916 - Gartenstadt Falkenberg, Germany, designed by Bruno Taut. [URB]

1917 - Institut d’Histoire, de Géographie et d’Économie Urbaine de la Ville de Paris, stablished by Marcel Poète. [GEO, TDC]

1917 - Plan for Berlin Gartenstadt Staaken, Paul Schmitthenner. [PPP]

1917 - Une Cité Industrielle, Etude pour la Construction des Villes, Tony Garnier. [URB]

1917 - Tweede Ontwerp Plan Zuid, Second Development Plan South, Amsterdam, Hendrik Petrus Berlage. [URB, PPP]

1918 - Nothing Gained by Overcrowding, Unwin. [URB]

1919 - Die Stadtkrone, Bruno Taut. [URB]

1919 - La loi Cornudet, France, gave local authorities three years to finish the projects of Aménagement, d’Embellissement et d’Extension des Villes. [URB, PPP, LEG]

1919 - Les Grands Travaux de la Ville de Lyon, Tony Garnier. [URB, PWO]

1919 - Welwyn Garden City, founded by Ebenezer Howard designed by Louis de Soissons. [PWO, PPP]

1910 - 9th International Housing Congress, Vienna. [HOU, TDC]

1910 - Antwerp Competition. [URB, TDC]

1910 - Bromma Garden City, west of Stockholm, Per Olof Hallman. [PPP, PWO]

1910 - Gidea Park suburb, England. [PPP, PWO]

1910 - Greater Berlin Competition Exhibition. [URB, TDC]

1910 - Grossstadt Vienna Proposal, Otto Wagner. [URB, PPP]

1910 - Handbuch des Wohnungswesens und der Wohnungsfrage (Handbook of Housing and Housing Issues), Rudolf Eberstadt. [HOU]

1910 - Kraków Competition. [URB, TDC]

1910 - La Ville et son Image, Benoit-Lévy. [URB]

1910 - Multi level “Street of Future”, Eugène Henard. [URB, INF]

1910 - Nuovo Plano di Risanamento e Ampliamento della Città, Naples. [PPP]

1910 - Philips Village, in Eindhoven, commissioned by Phillips. [PPP, PWO]

1910 - Rapport sur l’ Avenir des Grandes Villes, Eugène Hénard. [URB]

1910 - Stockfeld Garden City, Germany, based on the design by Edouard Schimpf. [PPP, PWO]

1910 - The Firebird, Igor Stavinsky, in his Russian period, Paris. [HIS]

1910 - The Town Planning Review published its first issue, Patrick Abercrombie. [URB]

1910 - Town Planning Conference in London, organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). [URB, TDC]

1910 - Works on the Gran Vía, Madrid. [PPP, PWO]

1910 - Städtebau-Ausstellung Berlin, Berlin Universal City Planning Exhibition. Werner Hegemann was made General Secretary of the first international city planning exhibition. [URB, TDC]

1910 - First auto bus in Paris. [INF]

1911 - Association des Villes et Communes de France. [TDC]

1911 - First automatic signalization London metro. [INF]

1911 - Last circulation of omnibus and animal traction transportation, London. [INF]

1911 - Petit Groslay, near Paris as a Banlieue Jardin, Edouard Redout. [PPP, PWO]

1911 - The Principles of Scientific Management, Frederick Winslow Taylor. [ECO]

1911 - Socièté Française des Architectes-Urbanistes. The founders were Donat Alfred Agache, Marcel Aubertin, André Bérard, Leon Jaussely, H. Parently, Henri Prost, Jean Claude Nicholas Forestier and Edouard Redont, and Eugène Hénard was its first president. [URB, SPL, TDC]

1912 - Glasgow incorporated some surrounding communities, among them Govan and Partick. [URB]

1912 - Gustave Eiffel built a wind tunnel. [HIS]

1912 - Loi Bonnevay, societies HBM, France. [HOU, LEG]

1912 - Margarethenhöhe, a garden village near Essen, promoted by the German industrialist Krupp. [PPP, PWO]

1912 - Nothing Gained by Overcrowding, Raymond Unwin. [URB]

1912 - Société Anonyme d’Habitation à Bon Marché, the Foyer Rémois and the Crédit Immobilier de Reims, founded by George Charboneaux. [HOU, TDC, LEG]

1912 - Canterbury Plan. [PPP]

1912 - Städtebau-Ausstellung Düsseldorf. [URB]

1912 - The Development of a Great City, Otto Wagner. [URB]

1912 - World Center Communication Plan. [URB]

1912 – Le Nouveau Jardin, André Vera and Paul Vera, Émile-Paul, Paris. [GRE]

1913 - Model of the atom, Niels Bohr. [HIS]

1913 - Chair in Civic Design, University of Illinois's Department of Horticulture, Charles Mulford Robinson. [TDC]

1913 - Città Nuova, Sant’Elia. [URB]

1913 - Die Gartenkultur des XX.Jahrhunderts, the Garden Culture of the 20th Century, Leberecht Migge. [GRE]

1913 - Erie General Plan, USA, John Nolan. [PPP]

1913 - Freiwillige Basler Denkmalpflege, a private association for historic preservation, founded by citizens of Basel. [HER, TDC]

1913 - L’Union International des Villes foundation. [TDC]

1913 - Loi sur la protection des monuments historiques, France. [HER, LEG]

1913 - On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules-Part I, Niels Bohr, a fundamental paper about the model of the atom. [HIS]

1913 - Plan d’Extension de la Commune des Eaux-Vives, Geneva. [PPP]

1913 - Socialism Without Politics: Garden Cities of the Future and the Past, Russian Garden City Society. [URB, TDC]

1913 - Tallin Urban Plan, Eliel Saarinen. [PPP]

1913 - The French law of 1913 introduced the classification of historical monuments and the notion of public interest. [HER, LEG]

1913 – International Garden Cities and Town Planning Association, founded by Ebenezer Howard [URB, TDC]

1913 - The Netherlands Association of Garden Cities was founded. [URB, TDC]

1913 - The Premier Congrès International des Villes et Exhibitions Comparés des Cités, Ghent. [URB, TDC]

1913 - Vreewijk Garden City, founded by Rotterdam Garden City Company. [SPL]

1914 - Carrying Out the City Plan, Flavel Shurtleff. [SPL]

1914 - Constructivism, Russia. [SPL]

1914 - First women elected to the Swedish Academy, Selma Lagerlof. [HIS]

1914 - Garden City of Chemin , constructed by the Foyer Rémois, designed by Jean Marcel Auburtin. [SPL]

1914 - Municipal Urban Planning Department of Hamburg, Fritz Schumacher. [SPL]

1914 - Office Publique des Habitations à Bon Marché de la Seine, Henri Sellier, Mayor of Suresnes. This office planned to build fifteen Garden Cities, near Paris, though financial problems meant that only nine Garden Cities were actually built, among them Gennevilliers, Drancy, Stains, Les Lilas (destroyed in the 1970s) and Le Pré-Saint-Gervais. [URB, HOU, TDC]

1914 - Panama Canal. [HIS]

1914 - Rotterdam absorbed Hook of Holland, and later Pernis and its surroundings. [URB]

1914 - Société Française des Architectes Urbanistes, was founded, suciding the Socièté Française des Architectes-Urbanistes. [URB, SPL, TDC]

1914 - The Exposition Internationale Urbaine: La Cité Moderne, Lyon. [URB, TDC]

1914 - The Piano Regolatore della Città di Napoli established la zonizzazione, zoning, Naples. [PPP]

1914 - The Royal Town Planning Institute, was founded. [URB, SPL, TDC]

1914 - The Exposition Internationale Urbaine: La Cité Moderne, Lyon. [URB, TDC]

1914 - 1918 - First World War. [HIS]

1915 - Cities in Evolution - An Introduction to the Town Planning Movement and to the Study of Civics, Patrick Geddes. [URB, SPL]

1915 - Comment Reconstruire nos Cités Détruites? Donat Alfred Agache and Marcel Aubertin. [URB]

1915 - Grand Plan de Genève et de sa Banlieue, Adrien Piccioni. [PPP]

1915 - Gretna Garden Village, Raymond Unwin. [PPP]

1915 - Heyplaat garden suburb, near Rotterdam. [PWO, PPP]

1915 - London Town Planning Conference. [URB, SPL]

1915 - Manifesto of the Futurism Reconstruction of the Universe, declared by Giacomo Balla. [TDC]

1915 - Municipal Housing Department and the Amsterdam City Council. [HOU, TDC]

1915 - New Village of Fez, Prost. [PWO, PPP]

1915 - New Village of Mourmansk. [PWO, PPP]

1915 - Oslo garden suburb, Oscar Hoff. [PWO, PPP]

1915 - Préliminaires de l’art Civique, Louis Van der Swaelmen. [URB]

1915 - Satellite Cities, Taylor. [URB]

1916 - Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. [INF]

1916 - Discovery of hypochlorite with small portions, to water treatment, Bunau-Varillat. [INF]

1916 - First commercial broadcasting station, The Hague. [HIS]

1916 - Gartenstadt Falkenberg, Germany, designed by Bruno Taut. [URB]

1916 - Planning of the Modern City, Nelson P. Lewis. [URB]

1916 - Regulation Plan for Warsaw and Surroundings, Tadeusz Tolwinski. [PPP]

1916 - Urban plan scheme of Florence, drawn up by the Highways Department of the City Council. [PPP]

1917 - First president of American City Planning Institute, Frederick Law Olmsted. [URB, TDC]

1917 - Greater Helsinki Plan, Eliel Saarinen. [PPP]

1917 - Group Pour le Développement Rational et Harmonieux de Genève, critical of the Plan d’Extension, Camille Martin. [COM, TDC]

1917 - Institut d’Histoire, de Géographie et d’Économie Urbaine de la Ville de Paris, stablished by Marcel Poète. [GEO, TDC]

1917 - Plan for Berlin Gartenstadt Staaken, Paul Schmitthenner. [PPP]

1917 - Quebec bridge. [INF]

1917 - The Nederlandse Instituut voor Ruimtelijke Ordening en Volkshuivesting was founded. [URB, SPL, TDC]

1917 - The Royal Commission into the Conditions of the Housing of the Working Classes in Scotland. [HOU, TDC]

1917 - Une Cité Industrielle, Etude pour la Construction des Villes,Tony Garnier. [URB]

1917 - De Stijl, movement bringing together painters (Piet Mondriaan, Theo van Doesberg), architects (Cornelis van Eesteren), landscape architects (Mien Ruys), urban planners (Jacobus Johannes P. Oud, Lotte StamBeese) and designers (Gerrit Rietveld, Max Bill). [URB, TDC]

1917 - Tweede Ontwerp Plan Zuid, Second Development Plan South, Amsterdam, Hendrik Petrus Berlage. [URB, PPP]

1918 - Nitrogen fixation, Fritz Haber. [HIS]

1918 - General Plan for Helsinki, E. Saarinen and B. Jung. [PPP]

1918 - Nothing Gained by Overcrowding, Unwin. [URB]

1918 - Plan for Moscow. [PPP]

1918 - Arbeitsrat für Kunst ('Workers council for art' or 'Art Soviet'). [TDC]

1919 - Greater Paris Competition, Winner: Léon Jaussely. [URB, TDC]

1919 - Batavia, Belgiam Garden City, Bodson. [PWO, PPP]

1919 - Cologne General Plan Competition, organized by the Mayor of Cologne, Konrad Adenauer, won by Schumacher. [URB, TDC]

1919 - Concours International du Plan d’Extension de Paris, won by Jaussely together with Louis Sollier and Roger-Henri Expert. [URB, TDC]

1919 - Die Stadtkrone, Bruno Taut. [URB]

1919 - École de Hautes Études Urbaines founded by Marcel Poète and Henri Sellier, an initiative of the Conseil General de la Seine. [URB, TDC]

1919 - Edinburgh Corporation Act, Housing Planning Committee, a programme of Garden cities, Scotland. [URB, LEG]

1919 - First French Code d’Urbanisme. [URB, LEG]

1919 - First women to be elected to the British Parliament, Lady Astor. [HIS]

1919 - Garden City of Zimpel/Sępolno in Breslau/Wrocław was founded. [PWO, PPP]

1919 - International Labour Organization. [HIS]

1919 - La loi Cornudet, France, gave local authorities three years to finish the projects of Aménagement, d’Embellissement et d’Extension des Villes. [URB, PPP. LEG]

1919 - League of the Nations. [HIS]

1919 - Les Grands Travaux de la Ville de Lyon, Tony Garnier. [URB, PWO]

1919 - New Town - a Proposal in Agricultural, Industrial,Educational, Civic and Social Reconstruction, W. R. Hughes. [URB]

1919 - Le Bourget Airport inauguration, Paris. [INF]

1919 - Revision of Housing and Town Planning Act, UK. [HOU, URB, LEG]

1919 - The French journal La Vie Urbaine, published from 1919 until 1977, with a break between 1940 and 1950, by the École de Hautes Études Urbaines and later by its successor the Institut d’Urbanisme de Paris. [URB]

1919 - The International Air Traffic Association (IATA). [INF, TDC]

1919 - Welwyn Garden City, founded by Ebenezer Howard designed by Louis de Soissons. [PWO, PPP]