Urban History Summer Seminar Series
Dear colleagues,
As conferences have been cancelled this year, the editorial team at the journal Urban History (Cambridge UP) has organized a series of seminars (online lectures and discussions), to help keep us in touch with one another and our research, and to give mainly younger scholars feedback on their work.
Please see below for […]
International Planning History Society – Moscow, July 5-8, 2020
Conference website Call for Papers – Deadline, November 30, 2019
The International Planning History Society’s 2020 conference calls for contributions investigating a broad range of topics in planning history relating to the theme of City Space Transformation: Renovation of the Urban Environment. The aim behind the theme is to contribute to a deeper understanding […]
At the conclusion of its November 2, 2019, board meeting, Nancy Kwak became SACRPH’s 16th President. The board approved a President-elect and new board members to lead the organization.
Marta Gutman (City University of New York) is SACRPH’s President-Elect.
New Board members are Alex Sayf Cummings (Georgia State University), Stephanie Frank (University of […]
SACRPH Award Winners, 2019
On November 2, 2019, at the SACRPH 2019 Reception and Awards Ceremony, the winners of SACRPH’s biennial awards competition were announced for works produced between August 1, 2017, and July 31, 2019.
Click here for full details, including award citations and photographs.
Job Posting: Princeton-Mellon Initiative
Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities: Call for Fellows, 2020-21
The Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities is an interdisciplinary program supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that combines the efforts of a diverse group of faculty, programs, and schools to develop a dynamic understanding of urban issues past, present, […]
Job Posting: MIT position in Urban History
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the History Section of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) have shared a faculty position in the area of urban history for more than a half century. We jointly seek to appoint a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor in […]
SACRPH Call For Nominations
The Nominating Committee of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History invites nominations and self-nominations to the SACRPH Board and to the position of President. Please visit our SACRPH About page for the current leadership.
To submit a nomination, please use our Continue Reading →
Call for New Book Review Editor: Journal of Planning History
SACRPH is soliciting applications from qualified individuals for book review editor of the refereed Journal of Planning History (JPH).
The book review editor of the JPH will manage all aspects of the book review section for the four annual issues of JPH, […]
2019 Awards Competition
SACRPH announces its 2019 awards competition, including prizes for the best book, dissertation, and articles in North American city and regional planning. The Laurence Gerckens Prize is awarded to an outstanding teacher-scholar in the field. Nominations for these awards are due August 1. Please see the awards page for further details.
SACRPH 2019 Call for Papers
SACRPH 2019 Northern Virginia invites scholars and practitioners from a wide variety of fields to present on all aspects of urban, regional, and community planning history, worldwide. Particularly welcome for our 2019 conference in Arlington, Virginia, are complete sessions, papers, roundtables, and poster sessions addressing selected themes in the past, including:
Comparative and global […]
