The Journal of Planning History Prize ($500) is awarded to the best article published in that journal, with no geographical restriction.
For the current awards cycle, articles must have an OnlineFirst publication date between August 1, 2023 and December 31, 2025.
All eligible articles will be considered; no nominations are required.
Committee: Gail Dubrow (chair), Carl Abbott, and Peter Ekman
Past Winners
2023: Todd M. Michney, “How the City Survey’s Redlining Maps Were Made: A Closer Look at HOLC’s Mortgagee Rehabilitation Division” Journal of Planning History 21, no. 4 (Nov. 2022; OnlineFirst 2021)
2021: Anastasiya Ponomaryova and Brent D. Ryan, “Will Kyiv’s Soviet Industrial Districts Survive? A Study of Transformation, Preservation, and Demolition of Industrial Heritage in Ukraine’s Capital,” Journal of Planning History 20, no. 3 (Aug. 2021): 220-268
2019: Luke Bennett, Sheffield Hallam University, “Cold War Ruralism: Civil Defense Planning, Country Ways, and the Founding of the UK Royal Observer Corps’ Fallout Monitoring Posts Network,” Journal of Planning History 17, no. 3 (Aug. 2018): 205-225
— 2019 honorable mention: Douglas R. Appler, University of Kentucky, “Changing the Scale of Analysis for Urban Renewal Research: Small Cities, the State of Kentucky, and the 1974 Urban Renewal Directory” Journal of Planning History 16, no. 3 (Aug. 2017): 200-221
2017: Jordan Stanger-Ross, and the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective, “Suspect Properties: The Vancouver Origins of the Forced Sale of Japanese-Canadian-owned Property, WWII” Journal of Planning History 15, no. 4 (Nov.2016): 271-289
— 2017 honorable mention: J. Mark Souther, “A US$35 Million ‘Hole in the Ground’: Metropolitan Fragmentation and Cleveland’s Unbuilt Downtown Subway,” Journal of Planning History 14, no. 3 (Aug. 2015) 179-203
2015: Damon Scott, “Before the Creative Class: Blight, Gay Movies, and Family Values in the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood,” Journal of Planning History 14, no. 2 (May 2015): 149-173
— 2015 honorable mention: Domenic Vitiello and Catherine Brinkley, “The Hidden History of Food System Planning” Journal of Planning History 13, no. 2 (May 2014): 91-112
2013: Jatinder Singh and Amita Sinha, “Jamshedpur: Planning an Ideal Steel City in India,” Journal of Planning History 10, no. 4 (Nov. 2011): 263-281
2011: Michael Carriere, “Fighting the War Against Blight: Columbia University, Morningside Heights, Inc., and Counterinsurgent Urban Renewal,” Journal of Planning History 10, no. 1 (Feb. 2011): 5-29
2009: Heather MacDonald, “City Planning and the U.S. Census 1910 to 1960,” Journal of Planning History 7, no. 4 (Nov. 2008): 263-294
— 2009 honorable mention: Elizabeth MacDonald, “The Efficacy of Long-Range Planning: The Case of Vancouver,” Journal of Planning History 7, no. 3 (Aug. 2008): 175-213 — 2009 honorable mention: Stephen McGovern, “Evolving Visions of Waterfront Development in Post-industrial Philadelphia: The Formative Role of Elite Ideologies,” Journal of Planning History 7, no. 4 (Nov. 2008): 295-326
— 2009 honorable mention: Stephen McGovern, “Evolving Visions of Waterfront Development in Post-industrial Philadelphia: The Formative Role of Elite Ideologies,” Journal of Planning History 7, no. 4 (Nov. 2008): 295-326