John Reps Prize Winners
Awarded to the best doctoral dissertation and master’s thesis in American city and regional planning history completed in the past two years.
DISSERTATION
| 2021 | Michael Glass, “Schooling Suburbia: The Politics of School Finance in Postwar Long Island,” (Princeton University, 2020). and Angela S. Stiefbold, “Farming Scenery: Growing Support for Agricultural Land Preservation, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1930-1990,” (University of Cincinnati, 2020). |
| 2019 | Rebecca Summer, “The Urban Alley: A Hidden Landscape of Social Change in Washington, D.C.” (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019). |
| 2017 | Garrett Dash Nelson, "A Place Altogether: Planning and the Search for Unit Landscapes, 1816-1956" (University of Wisconsin, 2016), and Patrick Nugent, "The Urban Environmental Order: Planning and Politics on Staten Island, 1945-1984" (George Washington University, 2016). |
| 2015 | Chloe Taft Kang, "From Steel to Slots: Landscapes of Economic Change in Postindustrial Bethlehem, PA (Yale University, 2014), and Emily Remus, “The Making of the Consumer City: Gender, Space, and Class in Chicago, 1871-1914" (University of Chicago, 2014). |
| 2013 | Francesca Russello Ammon, "Culture of Clearance: Waging War on the Landscape in Postwar America" (Yale University, 2012), and Brian David Goldstein, "A City Within a City: Community Development and the Struggle Over Harlem, 1961-2001" (Harvard University, 2013). |
| 2011 | Emily Lieb, “Row House City: Unbuilding Residential Baltimore, 1940-1980” (Columbia University, 2010). |
| 2009 | Andrew Highsmith, "Demolition Means Progress: Race, Class, and the Deconstruction of the American Dream in Flint, Michigan" (University of Michigan, 2009). |
| 2007 | Kelly Anne Quinn, "Making Modern Homes: A History of Langston Terrace Dwellings, A New Deal Housing Program in Washington, D.C." (University of Maryland, 2007). |
| 2005 | Roberta S. Gold, "City of Tenants: New York's Housing Struggles and the Challenge to Postwar America, 1945-1970" (University of Washington, 2004). |
| 2003 | Zachary Schrag, “The Washington Metro as Vision and Vehicle, 1955-2001” (Columbia University, 2002). |
| 2001 | James Buckley, “Building the Redwood Region: The Redwood Lumber Industry and the Landscape of Northern California, 1850-1929 (University of California, Berkeley, 2000). |
| 1999 | Thomas Campanella, “Republic of Shade: The Emergence of the American Elm as a Cultural and Urban Design Element in Nineteenth-Century New England” (MIT, 1999), and Owen Gutfreund, “Twentieth Century Sprawl: Accommodating the Automobile and the Decentralization of the United States” (Columbia University, 1998). |
| 1997 | Robin Bachin, “Cultural Boundaries: Constructing Urban Space and Civic Culture on Chicago's South Side, 1890-1919” (University of Michigan, 1996). |
| 1995 | Alison Isenberg, "Downtown Democracy: Rebuilding Main Street Ideals in the Twentieth Century American City" (University of Pennsylvania, 1995). |
| 1993 | Greg Hise, “The Roots of the Postwar Urban Region: Mass-housing and Community Planning in California, 1920-1950” (University of California, Berkeley, 1992). |
MASTER’S THESIS
| 2007 | Marie Ray Warsh, "'The Truest Reform Work': The Children's School Farm, New York City, 1902-1931" (Bard College, 2007). |
| 2005 | Francesca Russello Ammon, "Little City, Big Plans: Stories of Asbury Park, New Jersey" (Yale School of Architecture, 2005). |
| 2001 | Barbara Hahn, “Businessmen, Railroads, and City Planning in Cincinnati, 1869-1933 (University of Cincinnati, 2000). |
| 1999 | Monica Abeita, “Historical Community Development in North Central New Mexico” (University of New Mexico, 1999). |
| 1995 | Sean O'Donnell, "Toward Urban Frameworks: Accommodating Change in Urban Cultural Landscapes" (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). |