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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How to register for the conference:

Pre-registration discount for members ends September 30

There are three methods:

1) By using our online registration site.

2) By sending a copy of our registration form with payment (check or money order only, in US dollars, payable to the University of Southern Maine Conference Center) to:

SACRPH Registration
USM Dept of Conferences
PO Box 9300
Portland, ME 04104

3) By faxing our registration form with credit card information, including credit card name, number, expiration date, and security code, to 207-780-5963.


Please direct any questions about conference registration to the USM Department of Conferences at 207-780-5951.

Pricing information for each event

Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009
Pre-Conference Symposium: "Democracy on the Ground in West Oakland: Immigrants, Migrants, and the Development of an African-American Community," 1:00-6:00 p.m.

Walking/Bus Tour $45

This pre-conference event will explore the development of a multi-ethnic, racially integrated, working class community: West Oakland. By bus and on foot, the tour group will explore the history of this neighborhood in its many phases. West Oakland catapulted into development when designated the western terminus of the first transcontinental railroad (1869) and experienced increasing settlement of immigrants from Central and Southern Europe. A small community of African Americans also lived in this part of the city, as did some Chinese and Japanese Americans. When African American population soared during the Great Migration, West Oakland became the center of union activity for the mostly black Pullman Porters (a union eventually headed by C.L. Dellums, uncle of Oakland's current mayor). Starting in the 1880s, white, middle-class, Protestant women established a number of institutions aimed at "reforming" the cultural ways of immigrant and migrant families; they were joined after the turn of the century by Irish Catholic and African American women. The tour will explore the physical evidence of this incrementally built charitable landscape. Finally, the tour will explore the concrete landscape of Oakland's prolific urban renewal program in West Oakland, one reason the Black Panthers organized in the 1960s. The city demolished many Victorian homes to build schools, parks, and government-sponsored low- and moderate-income housing. Reception to follow.

Friday and Saturday, October 16-17, 2009
Conference Program

A. Full registration

Includes plenary and paper sessions, two continental breakfasts, two lunch banquets, and the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evening receptions. Does not include Thursday symposium or Sunday tours.

SACRPH Member $245
UHA Member $245
APA Member $245
Nonmember (includes one-year membership in SACRPH) $315
Full-time student $150 (must provide copy of current student identification)

If postmarked after September 30, 2009
Members and nonmembers $315

B. One-day registration

Friday, Oct. 16 $160
Saturday, Oct. 17 $160
Full-time student rate to attend Saturday, Oct. 17, lunch and evening reception included. $ 75
Full-time student rate to attend poster session and evening reception only on Saturday, Oct. 17 $ 41 (must provide copy of current student identification)

Sunday, October 18, 2009
After-Conference Tours

Departing from Oakland Marriott City Center.

Tours will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

1. Historical Development and Ethnic Change in Oakland, 9:30 a.m.-1:30p.m. $10
Tour guide: James Buckley

This guided walking tour introduces residential and commercial districts in downtown Oakland and Asian and Latino neighborhoods. You will see how city planners and community activists have wrestled to preserve and create vital urban neighborhoods in the contemporary city. Highlights include: "10K" residential developments that formed part of the plan to increase the density of downtown by 10,000 units under former mayor Jerry Brown; Oakland's Chinatown; and the Fruitvale District, a Latino neighborhood with several community-based development efforts including a mixed-use transit-oriented development at a BART station.

2. Berkeley Architectural Tour, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $15
Tour guide: Steve Finacom

This walking tour sponsored by Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association (BAHA) begins and ends at the Downtown Berkeley BART station, and includes Downtown Berkeley, part of the UC Berkeley campus, and historic neighborhoods immediately adjacent to both. Highlights and themes include: an early 20th century commercial district and the ongoing debate over its 21st century future; a City Beautiful-era civic center; an evolving urban "Arts District" with a specialized streetscape; campus site originally laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted overlaid with a 1900s grand and formal Beaux Arts ensemble and later, Modernist interventions; a leafy, "Berkeley brownshingle" neighborhood that embodies Berkeley's Arts & Crafts period "Building with Nature" aesthetic movement; a lively student residential and commercial district where you'll see, side by side, a National Landmark Maybeck-designed church, 19th century Victorian homes, famed "People's Park", and redevelopment era highrise institutional housing. The tour will be led by Steve Finacom, a community historian and writer in Berkeley, who also works for the physical planning office at the University of California, Berkeley. BART tickets for travel between Oakland and Berkeley will be provided. There will be options for a no-host lunch at the end of the tour, and a brief refreshment / bathroom break mid-way. Brisk walking on paved pathways and sidewalks, some of it steeply uphill.

3. Urban Renewal in San Francisco, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $45
Tour guide: Richard Brandi

This bus/walking tour will visit sites where San Francisco's powerful Redevelopment Agency undertook massive renewal efforts between the 1950s and the 1980s. Highlights include: downtown projects like Golden Gateway, Embarcadero Center, and Yerba Buena Gardens, which transformed central markets and working class homes into modern commercial, residential, and cultural centers.

4. North of the Golden Gate: Growth Control, Open Space, and Alternative
Agriculture on the Urban Fringe, 6:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. $89
Tour Guide: Louise Nelson Dyble

This bus tour will provide a taste of the economic, environmental, and culinary fruits of thirty years of growth control in Marin and Sonoma Counties. It will begin with an early morning drive through San Francisco and across the Golden Gate Bridge, followed by breakfast at the Marin County farmers market in the shadow of Frank Lloyd Wright's Civic Center building. Participants will then head west through Marin's agricultural preserve, passing along the way some of the specialty farms that supply the farmers market and the region¹s top restaurants. After sampling the products of West Marin dairies and aquaculture in Pt. Reyes, they will head northeast toward Petaluma. The tour will end with a picnic lunch at a historic winery in Sonoma¹s Valley of the Moon. Along the way, you will hear from activists and professionals who have been directly involved with alternative agriculture and open space preservation the North Bay. Speakers include Sally K. Fairfax, author of Buying Nature: The Limits of Land Acquisition as a Conservation Strategy, 1780-2004 (2005); Richard A. Walker, author of Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area (2008); Greig Tor Guthey, who will discuss terroir and the politics of northern California wine; and Louise Nelson Dyble, author of Paying the Toll: Local Power, Regional Politics, and the Golden Gate Bridge (2009). Cost includes transportation, breakfast and lunch. Seating is limited, and a minimum of 20 registrants is required.

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