774 THE URBAN COMMUNITY 



ever, it might suffice to point to the results which we owe to the great 

 German municipal exposition of 1903. The administration of almost 

 all important cities of Germany had united for this purpose. The 

 exposition was held in Dresden where, during the preceding winter, 

 the Gehe-Stiftung established a course of lectures in which an his- 

 torian, a geographer, a statistician, a political economist, a phil- 

 osopher, etc., should each express his opinion about urban culture. 

 The lectures have been collected and printed in the Jahrbuch der 

 Gehe-Stiftung, 9 Bande, Die Grosstadt, Vortrdge und Aufsdtze von 

 Backer, Ratzel, v. Mayr, Waentig, Simmel, Th. Petermann, D. Schdfer. 

 After the close of the municipal exposition its president caused 

 a large work to be compiled about each of the different sections; this 

 book may be considered a synopsis of the latest progress in the 

 different branches of German municipal administration; its author 

 is Wuttke (Dresden, 1904). Finally the pamphlets which the city of 

 Dresden had distributed at the exposition and in which the various 

 branches of administration were described offer an intelligible intro- 

 duction into a municipal administration which can serve as an 

 example. (Ftihrer durch das Vorwaltungsgebiet der Stadt Dresden, 

 1903.) 



Most German municipal regulations prescribe the annual publica- 

 tion of an administrative report. The city of Berlin goes beyond the 

 legal obligation and publishes besides these annual reports quin- 

 quennial statements of acknowledged excellence. Where the putting 

 m print was not usual, even this has been of advantage to literature, 

 as in the first edition a comprehensive review was given. In this 

 way the first administrative report of the city of Essen contains an 

 introduction into the development of modern municipal administra- 

 tion. (Die Verwaltung der Stadt Essen im 19. Jahrhundert, 1 Band, 

 Verwaltungsbericht erstattet von Oberburgermeister Zweigert, Essen, 

 1902.) Schoeneberg, one of the quickly risen suburbs of Berlin 

 which had been a rural community until lately, at the time of its 

 admission t the immunities and privileges of a town, published an 

 exhaustive and retrospective report of its administration which 

 describes the development of a great urban community (1899). In 

 connection with the bicentennial jubilee of the city of Charlotten- 

 burg, in 1905, the same subject will be treated, upon a broad his- 

 torical basis, in Gundlach's work (under the press) Geschichte der 

 Stadt Charlottenburg, Berlin, 1905; the entire modern municipal 

 administration will there be discussed. Finally I should like to call 

 attention to the fact that I have taken the examples in the first 

 volume of my work Socialpolitik und Verwaltungswissenschaft, 

 Berlin, 1902, mostly from the modern municipal administration of 

 Germany and foreign countries. 



