One of our partner organizations, the International Planning History Society (IPHS), will be hosting its biennial meeting this summer, in Atlanta, Georgia. We hope to host a SACRPH session as part of the program, so please email us if you have already submitted or are planning to assemble and submit a session.
2026 IPHS Conference: Atlanta Crossroads
Abstracts due: March 15, 2026
The 21st Biennial Conference of the International Planning History Society (IPHS) will be held July 19-23, 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The conference is dually hosted by Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Design, and the University of Georgia, College of Environment and Design.
The theme of the IPHS 2026 conference is Atlanta Crossroads. We welcome papers from a broad spectrum of urban and regional planning history scholarship. We encourage innovative perspectives, resources, and methodologies. We celebrate creativity through multi-disciplinary engagement.
Paper sessions will run 90 minutes (1.5 hours), generally with two (2) sessions in the morning and two (2) in the afternoon. Presentation details will be sent to accepted authors once the schedule is confirmed. Oral presentations in these sessions will run 10-15 minutes. Authors retain the rights to their work. Conference organizers are not responsible for plagiarism.
The deadline for submission of abstracts for individual papers and special sessions has been extended to March 15, 2026.
Papers related to the following themes are particularly of interest:
– Planning the Olympics
– W.E.B. Du Bois and planning history
– Infrastructure Histories
– U.S. South and the Global South
– Social Movements and the City
– Cities and Nature
– Housing and Planning History
– Post-Colonial, De-Colonial Planning Trajectories
– Colonial Urban Planning
– Migrations and the City
– New Town Planning
– Port City Planning
– Regions and Regional Planning in History
– Capital Accumulation and Planning Histories
– City development in Southeast Asia and other Asian Regions
– Histories of Urbanization and Planning in China
– Community Planning, Health, and Public Space
– Transportation Planning Histories
– Planning Historiography
– City Planning and Heritage
– Planning History Pedagogy
If accepted, full papers are due 15 June 2026 using the proceedings template on the conference website.
