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 will be awarded at the biennial conference of the IPHS (“IPHS conference” hereafter) to the author of an outstanding article of the planning history of East Asia, published in a journal (not a conference proceedings) in the two calendar years before the deadline month (online or in print), in the form of a peer-reviewed paper (preferably by a single author, but first author acceptable) in English, who is a native, citizen and resident of a nation in East Asia 45 years old or younger at the time of publication. Papers previously published in a journal in a language other than English and translated into English and published in a journal are also eligible.
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: fakimoto8@gmail.com).
Awarded papers
2026
Huang, Xusheng (2025), “Spatial informality, urban regularization, and social resistance: Tianqiao as a public space for the poor, 1911–1937.” Planning Perspectives 40(2): 301–25.
2024
Awardee
Nakagawa, T. and J. 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.
Honorable mention
Li, H. (2022). “Soviet specialists’s urban planning technical assistance to China, 1949–1959.” Planning Perspectives 37(4): 815-839.
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.
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.
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.
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.
