International Planning History Society Book Prizes:

International Planning History Society endeavours to foster the study of planning history worldwide. It seeks to advance scholarship in the fields of urbanism, history, planning and the environment, focusing particularly on cities from the late nineteenth century.

In 2000 a biennial book prize to be announced at the Society's biennial conference was instituted to recognise research excellence in planning history. The inaugural prize was awarded at the 2002 London conference to William Logan for Hanoi: Biography of a City (2000). Recognising the internationalism of the IPHS, a second prize has been instituted for 2004.

Call for nominations - 2004 prizes

At the 2004 Barcelona conference two prizes will be awarded:

1. The most innovative book in planning history written in English and based on original new research.

2. The best book addressing Spanish and/or Latin American planning history written in Spanish or English.

Books may be individually or joint-authored. Anthologies and edited works are also welcome, but reprints and 'readers' are ineligible. They must also have been published in the previous two calendar years (2001-03). The prize for each award is £250 or equivalent. The prizes will be awarded at the 11th IPHS conference in Barcelona in July 2004, with the winners also receiving complimentary conference registration. Winners will be informed before the end of 2003 to facilitate participation at the conference.

Nominations are invited from scholars and publishers. Nominations will comprise a 400 word statement, a short CV of the author(s), and 5 copies of the nominated book. (These materials will not be returned).

The deadline for receipt of submissions for the next prize is 31 August 2003.

Nomination materials should be sent to: Pd. Dr. Dirk Schubert, TU Hamburg-Harburg, 107, Woellmerstraße 1, 20173 Hamburg, Germany. Further information about the prize can be obtained from Dirk Schubert. (Tel. +49-40-42878-3661, FAX +49-42878-2472, E-mail: d.schubert@tu-harburg.de).


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