Society for American City and Regional Planning History Presents
The Thirteenth National Conference on Planning History
Oakland, California
October 15 - 18, 2009
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Conference Program
Society for American City and Regional Planning History
October 15-18, 2009
Oakland, California
The full conference program
is now available in PDF format.
Updated October 12, 2009
The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) will hold its 13th biennial conference in the San Francisco Bay Area in the Fall of 2009. The conference will be based at the Marriott Oakland City Center hotel and will run from Thursday, October 15 through Sunday, October 18.
The National Conference on Planning History, which is held in a different city every two years, includes two days of papers on planning history, plenary sessions on broad planning topics, receptions, and optional local tours. Conference papers are attended by representatives of university presses from around the country, and by editors of major academic journals, such as the Journal of Planning History, Journal of Urban History, Journal of the American Planning Association, Planning Perspectives, and Buildings and Landscapes.
The SACRPH conference focuses on the history of cities and regional planning; this year's program will also feature sessions and tours on issues of regional planning and sustainability facing the San Francisco Bay Area. On Thursday, October 15, a "mobile symposium" will take advantage of the conference location to explore Oakland in the context of race, ethnicity, and gender in nineteenth- and twentieth-century urban development efforts such as urban renewal and HUD-assisted housing. On Sunday, October 18, conference participants will have a choice of optional tours to different parts of the Bay Area to explore regional planning and sustainability. Tour locations will include Marin/Sonoma, the East Bay, and San Francisco.
SACRPH is an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to promoting scholarship on the history of planning cities and metropolitan regions. Its members come from a range of professions and areas of interest, and include architects, planners, historians, environmentalists, landscape designers, public policy makers, preservationists, community organizers, students and scholars from across the country and around the world. SACRPH hosts this biennial conference, publishes a quarterly journal, The Journal of Planning History (http://jph.sagepub.com/), and sponsors awards for research and publication in the field of planning history.
Conference information is available on this website. Further information
about SACRPH can be found at
http://www.dcp.ufl.edu/sacrph.
Inquiries about the program should be directed to the Program Committee Co-chairs
Alison Isenberg, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University:
isenberg@history.rutgers.edu;
and Owen Gutfreund, Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter
College, City University of New York:
Owen.Gutfreund@hunter.cuny.edu.
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