The aim of this Prize is to encourage young scholars of East Asia to engage in planning history and to publish their work in English by their own efforts. It is also meant to expand IPHS membership in East Asia. East Asia here includes ‘Eastern Asia’ and ‘South-Eastern Asia’ defined by the United Nations Statistic Division.
One Prize in principle is awarded for outstanding research in the planning history of East Asia published in English in the form of a refereed article (preferably single-authored, but first-authored possible) in an academic journal (not in the conference proceedings), in the previous two calendar years before an IPHS Conference (online or in print), by a native, citizen, and resident of a nation in East Asia 45 years old or under at the time of publication.
The Prize winner shall be an IPHS member at the time of awarding the Prize and should attend the IPHS Conference, in order to receive the Prize and to present his/her work at the Conference. The Prize includes a monetary award of 250 GBP and a certificate.
East Asia Planning History Prize Committee
- Chair: Professor Emeritus Fukuo Akimoto, Kyushu University, Japan
- Associate Professor Shulan Fu, Zhejian University, China
- Adjunct Associate Research Professor Christine Garnaut, University of South Australia, Australia
- Professor Akihiro Kashima, Setsunan University, Japan
- Professor Maria Cristina Silva Leme, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Further information about the Prize and an Application Form can be obtained from the committee chair Professor Fukuo Akimoto (e: fa@kyudai.jp).
Awarded papers
2022
Two awardees
Saito, S. (2021) ‘The disposition of building evacuation sites and war-damage reconstruction in Sendai: The projects and the relationships among public entities for the conversion of evacuation sites into urban planning sites.’ Japan Architectural Review 4(1): 129-143.
This single-authored paper by Graduate Student Shunsuke SAITO (Kyoto University) is a historical case study of city defense and reconstruction efforts in Sendai during and after WWII. The author, through diligent archival research, clarifies the relationship between building evacuation projects and the war-damaged reconstruction planning, and has precisely delineated the entire process of converting building evacuation sites into urban planning sites, with a high quality of investigative skills. This paper offers an important contribution to the under-researched topic of planning history of Japan. Therefore, this is worthy of the Prize.
Guo, L. and X. Rong (2020) ‘Taking the high ground: construction of the regional spatial order of Chang’an Area in Tang Dynasty’, Planning Perspectives 35(1): 115-141.
This first-authored paper submitted by Assistant Professor Lu GUO (Tsinghua University) is a historical study of the urban planning and design of the capital city of the most prosperous global empire of ancient China. The author has successfully identified the main strategy for the construction of the regional spatial order, using an original multi-level technical method: macro, micro- site selection and the layout of architectural complex, based on evidence from archaeology, literature and field study. The paper has made a new breakthrough in research perspective, content and methodology of planning history of ancient China, so deserves the Prize.
Honorable mention
Iwamoto, K. and C. Hein (2021) ‘The role of Dutch civil engineering in modern port planning in Japan (1870s–1890s)’, Planning Perspectives 36(3): 617-629.
This first-authored paper submitted by researcher Kazumasa IWAMOTO (National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management) explores the roles of Dutch civil engineers on the development of late nineteenth-century Japanese port engineering and planning. The author brilliantly illustrates Van Doorn, Mulder and De Rijke’s work on three ports (Nobiru, Mikuni, and Yokohama) on the basis of existing research, and intriguingly hints their influences on urban planning, which is expected to be proven. By focusing upon the Dutch influence, the paper has a great potential to show originality in broadening the research horizon of planning history of Japan and to attract widespread interest from the international readership.
2020
Not announced.
2018
Not announced.
2016
Kosuke Matsubara, “Gyoji Banshoya (1930-1998): A Japanese Planner Devoted to Historic Cities in the Middle East and North Africa”. Planning Perspectives (Online: 14 Oct. 2015; DOI:10.1080/02665433.2015.1073610)
Shulan Fu, “Shan-shui Myth and History: The Locally Planned Process of Combining the Ancient City and West Lake in Hangzhou, 1896-1927”. Planning Perspectives (Online: 06 Oct 2015; DOI:10.1080/02665433.2015.1079795)
(Honorable Mention)Sanghoon Jung, “Oswald Nagler, HURPI, and the Formation of Urban Planning and Design in South Korea: The South-Seoul Plan by HURPI and the Mok-dong Plan”. Journal of Urban History, 40 (3), 585-605, 2014.
2014
Not announced.
2012
Not announced.
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