SACRPH’s quarterly publication, the Journal of Planning History, provides a scholarly outlet for the growing multidisciplinary cadre of academics and practitioners in the broad field of planning history. Check out the article in JPH’s latest issue, titled “Catherine Bauer’s Passage Through India: Frontier Urbanization and the Construction of ‘Interdisciplinary’ Urban Research at the College of Environmental Design, Berkeley.” Author Thomas Oommen examines the work of Catherine Bauer from 1953 to 1963, an overlooked period in her life, when she engaged with questions of “Indian urbanization” alongside the formation of an urban research institute in India. Her unique interdisciplinary vision for planning research and practice in this period was co-produced through her concurrent work on California and resulted in multiple reports on Californian urbanization as well as a seminar and book on Indian urbanization. The institute in India did not materialize; however, in 1962 an urban institute was set up in the newly formed College of Environmental Design at Berkeley.
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