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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16 May 2023
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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16 May 2023
“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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15 May 2023
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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14 May 2023
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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14 May 2023
is @dygottlieb at @bentleyu with “Hoboken is Burning: Yuppies, Arson, and Displacement in the Postindustrial City” in the @JournAmHist.
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14 May 2023
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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13 May 2023
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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12 May 2023
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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11 May 2023
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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18 Apr 2023
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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21 Jan 2023
"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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