The International Planning History Society has announced that Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change Edited by Mary Corbin Sies, Isabelle Gournay, and Robert Freestone has been awarded a prize for the Best Planning History, Edited Work.  The prize was to have been awarded at the IPHS Annual Conference, scheduled for Moscow (Russia) in July, 2020 but has been delayed due to the world-wide pandemic.  TheIPHS 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. Here is the book citation from the IPHS website:

"Dealing with 23 iconic planned communities, built in six continents from the early nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, the book addresses the issue of how visionary spirit comes to terms with reality and the challenges of change. Fascinating in its historic scope and drawing on the broad interdisciplinary perspective of the 25 prominent authors involved, the book not only encourages comparative analysis but also argues that in the future the cross-fertilization of the strategies deployed by single cases may contribute to achieve ongoing liveability and resilience, thus sustaining these planning legacies."

Read more about IPHS and the award here

For more information about this book, published by University of Pennsylvania Press click here

Mary Corbin Sies joined SAH in 1980  and Isabelle Gournay has been an SAH member since 1984.  They both served as Session Chairs at the 2017 SAH Annual conference in Glasgow, Scotland.