The Society for American City and Regional Planning History promotes scholarship on the planning of cities and metropolitan regions over time

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Calling all summer writers: @HOLCRedlining is issuing one last call for authors who would like to write introductory essays on cities for Mapping Inequality. Sign up now to knock out a ~500-word essay on any of these cities and get paid doing it: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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A big thanks to @sbenkorsh, @SAH1365, and all who attended on Tuesday. Video and chat link: sah.org/2023/roundtables?utm…
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SACRPH is now accepting nominations for its 2023 biennial awards. Today we cap off our spotlight of 2021 winners with the recipients of the Journal of Planning History Prize. @shtnastya and Brent D. Ryan at @MITdusp received the award for their article:
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“Will Kyiv’s Soviet Industrial Districts Survive? A Study of Transformation, Preservation, and Demolition of Industrial Heritage in Ukraine’s Capital” published in the Journal of Planning History in August, 2021. Learn more about the JPH Prize at sacrph.org/2023-awards-compe…
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Gentrification is a fairly easy concept to understand & a well-studied one now for decades. If you'd like a very accessible movement-oriented syllabus and definition, put together by the people who built the largest tenants union in the country, go here: pitzer.edu/manifesto/wp-cont…
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Since nominations are open for SACRPH's biennial awards, let's spotlight the co-winners of the 2021 John Reps Prizes for best doctoral dissertation and master’s thesis. @m_r_glass, now at @BostonCollege, was awarded for his dissertation “Schooling Suburbia: The Politics of School
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Finance in Postwar Long Island.” @AngelaStiefbold was awarded for her dissertation at the @uofcincy, “Farming Scenery: Growing Support for Agricultural Land Preservation, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1930-1990.” Learn more about the John Reps Prizes at sacrph.org/2023-awards-compe…
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Since nominations are open for SACRPH's biennial awards, let's spotlight the co-winners of the 2021 Catherine Bauer Wurster Prize for best scholarly article on American city and regional planning history. Find out more about the Wurster Prize at sacrph.org/2023-awards-compe…. First up:
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is @dygottlieb at @bentleyu with “Hoboken is Burning: Yuppies, Arson, and Displacement in the Postindustrial City” in the @JournAmHist.
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And of course: @lwinling at @virginia_tech, and @ToddMichney at @GeorgiaTech for “Roots of Redlining: Academic, Governmental, and Professional Networks in the Making of the New Deal Lending Regime,” also in the @JournAmHist.
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Since nominations are open for SACRPH's biennial awards, let's spotlight the winner of the 2021 Lewis Mumford Prize. @apaigeoutofhist at @uwmadison was recognized for her book How the Suburbs Were Segregated. Find out more about the Mumford Prize: sacrph.org/2023-awards-compe…
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Since nominations are open for SACRPH's biennial awards, let's spotlight the winner of the 2021 Laurence Gerckens Prize. Lawrence Vale was recognized for his outstanding teaching and mentorship at @MITdusp. Find out more about the Gerckens Prize: sacrph.org/2023-awards-compe….
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SACRPH invites submissions for our biennial awards competition. We present several awards for outstanding research and teaching in North American city and regional planning history. Deadline: August 1st. More info here: sacrph.org/2023-awards-compe…
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@SACRPH We hope you can join us for next week's virtual roundtable with historians who teach in professional schools, including: @merlinc2, @clairemdunning, @ATErickson, @kmschank, and Matt Lasner. Register at: sacrph.org/events
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Looking forward to this @sacrph conversation about teaching and doing history in professional schools - education, public health, planning, architecture, design - on May 8. Join us! urbanhistory.org/News/131799…
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I’m happy to see my review of "The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism," by @holtzman_b, is out now in the Journal of Planning History (@SACRPH). Spoiler alert: It's a great book journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Canva is one of the most powerful apps for academic work. But many academics don't know about it. Here's a latest Canva feature that will make your work simpler and life easier...(way easier):
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"A Community Archive Documents Decades of Radical Activism Against Police Brutality---A look at Interference Archive’s “Defend / Defund” exhibit" via @inthesetimesmag re: @InterferenceArc inthesetimes.com/article/com…
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Over and over and over again. 🥲
Three white men have been arrested after they were allegedly caught on tape attacking two Black teenagers as they tried to use a swimming pool they say they were told was for “white people only.” trib.al/kau52ZX
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Is anyone still here? If so, I have an announcement - something new for me - this piece in @Harpers that looks at the use of public lands for renewable energy development and questions whether we should. harpers.org/archive/2023/01/…
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