21st IPHS Conference 2026 Atlanta：Call for Abstracts & Sessions + Call for Award Nominations
Call for Abstracts & Sessions
Submit abstracts (≤250 words) and special sessions by 15 February 2026. If accepted, full papers are due 15 June 2026 using the proceedings template on the conference website: https://design.gatech.edu/iphs2026
Call for Award Nominations
The International Planning History Society (IPHS) promotes academic excellence in planning history through a suite of biennial awards. Learn more (past winners, criteria, eligibility): https://planninghistory.org/awards/
Deadline for 2026 award nominations: 15 February 2026
We welcome nominations and inquiries—please contact the committee chairs directly:
Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Achievement — Chair: Ian Morley (ianmorley@cuhk.edu.hk) | Committee: Rosemary Wakeham, John Pendlebury, Robert Freestone
IPHS Book Prizes — Chair: Filippo De Pieri (filippo.depieri@polito.it) | Committee: Cânâ Bilsel, Denis Bocquet, Sonja Dümpelmann, Avigail Sachs
Anthony Sutcliffe Dissertation Award— Chair: Karl Fischer (ffischer@asl.uni-kassel.de) | Committee: Renato Leao, Richard Hu
Planning Perspectives Prize — Chair: Robert Freestone (r.freestone@unsw.edu.au) | Committee: John & Maggie Gold, Carola Hein, Stephen Ramos, Radium Tam, Florian Urban
East Asia Planning History Paper Prize — Chair: Fukuo Akimoto (fakimoto8@gmail.com) | Committee: Shulan Fu, Christine Garnaut, Akihiro Kashima, Maria Cristina Silva Leme
Professional Award — Chair: Robert Freestone (r.freestone@unsw.edu.au) | Committee: Carlton Basmajian, Juliet Davis, Ian Morley
Koos Bosma Prize in Planning History Innovation — Chair: Carola Hein (c.m.hein@tudelft.nl) | Committee: TBA
IPHS 2024 Awards Announced
Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Achievement in Planning History
Awardee: Professor Donatella Calabi
IPHS Book Prizes IPHS First Book Prize Awardee: Loretta Lees, Elanor Warwick, Defensible Space on the Move: Mobilisation in English Housing Policy and Practice (Chichester, Wiley, 2022). IPHS Second Book Prize Awardee: Cecilia L. Chu, Building Colonial Hong Kong: Speculative Development and Segregation in the City (Abingdon, Routledge, 2022). IPHS Third Book Prize Awardee: Carla Brisotto, Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira (eds.), Reimaging Resilient Productive Landscapes: Perspectives from Planning History (Cham: Springer, 2022)
Planning Perspectives Prize Awardee: Taking critical junctures seriously: Theory and method for causal analysis of rapid institutional change (2023, Volume 38, Issue 5, pp 929–947) by Andre Sorensen
Best Postgraduate Paper at IPHS Conference Awardee: Urban Green Space Management in Ancient Chinese Capitals: Case Studies of Chang’an, Lin’an and Beijing by Haoran Zhang, Master’s degree candidate in Urban and Rural Planning at Tsinghua University
Anthony Sutcliffe Dissertation Award Awardee: Cities of Amber: Antigrowth Politics and the Making of Modern Liberalism (PhD dissertation at Harvard University) by Jacob Anbinder
East Asia Planning History Prize Awardee: Takaaki Nakagawa and Junko Sanada (2023). A study on the design methods of “the garden city” planning by Yoshikazu Uchida: Focusing on the process of making his planning. Japan Architectural Review 6(1): e12341.
IPHS Professional Commendation Award Awardee: Ann Rudkin
Congratulations to all recipients of awards and commendations!
20th IPHS Conference 2024 Hong Kong Concluded and 21st Conference 2026 Atlanta Announced
The 20th IPHS conference was successfully held in 2-5 July 2024 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Co-convened by CUHK professors Ian Morley and Hendrik Tieben, this conference had 240 delegates from around the world discuss planning history and explore a better urban future. The 21st IPHS conference will be held in 2026 in Atlanta and convened by professor Stephen Ramos at University of Georgia.
IPHS Spotlight on Emerging Research and Researchers in Planning History
Planning Perspectives is the journal of IPHS. Editors John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold introduce the journal, and share seven rules of getting published in it.
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