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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Call for Proposals: Undergraduate and Masters' Poster Sessions on Urban and Regional Planning History (expired)

The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) will be holding its bi-annual 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.

On Saturday, October 17, the conference will feature a public session of posters that present original research by undergraduate and masters degree program students. This session will be a unique opportunity for students at the bachelors and masters level to present their work in a forum attended by hundreds of professionals from all over the United States as well as overseas.

Undergraduates and masters' students interested in participating should have submitted the following:

• A one-page abstract clearly marked with their name and contact information summarizing their research, including the title, the central research question(s), a brief statement of significance, the sources consulted, and the major conclusions. (Works in progress, such as Bachelors or Masters theses, that do not yet have firm conclusions, are also encouraged.)
  
  
• A one-page resume or curriculum vitae, including (at a minimum) your contact information, university, major or concentration, expected degree, and expected date of graduation.

Please have your adviser, or a faculty member closely familiar with the project, email a short letter of endorsement to asha.weinstein.agrawal@sjsu.edu explaining the significance of the work and confirming that the faculty member expects it will be ready to present by October.

Presenters are expected to provide their own poster of up to 36" x 42". SACRPH will provide foamcore backing boards, easels, and clips. For tips on designing and creating a poster, see http://ual.stanford.edu/OO/research_opps/SURPSResources.html or http://www.aspb.org/education/poster.cfm.

Student presenters will receive a discounted registration fee, and will be entitled to attend the Saturday evening reception and awards ceremony following the poster session. Those wishing to attend more of the conference will pay the regular student registration fee.

Questions can be addressed to Michael Kahan, Associate Director of Urban Studies at Stanford University; or to Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Director, MTI National Transportation Finance Center, San José State University.

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 publishes a quarterly journal, The Journal of Planning History, hosts this biennial conference, and sponsors awards for research and publication in the field of planning history.

The student poster session is presented with the support of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, San José State University.

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