History in the Making: The 2005 SACRPH Awards

Every two years, the Society for American City and Regional Planning History offers a series of awards, accompanied by cash prizes, for outstanding books and papers in the field of planning history. The 2005 competition is open to relevant works published between August 2003 and July 2005. Submission deadline is July 15, 2005.

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The Lewis Mumford Prize for Best Book in American Planning History

Alison Isenberg for Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People who Made It (University of Chicago Press, 2004)

The Catherine Bauer Wurster Prize for Best Article in American Planning History

Joseph Heathcott and Maire A. Murphy for "Corridors of Flight, Zones of Renewal: Industry, Planning, and Policy in the Making of Metropolitan St. Louis, 1940-1980," Journal of Urban History, 31: 2 (Jan. 2005)

The John Reps Prize for Best Master's and Doctoral Thesis in American Planning History

Master: Francesca Russello Ammon, "Little City, Big Plans: Stories of Asbury Park, New Jersey" (M.E.D., Yale School of Architecture, 2005)

PhD: Roberta S. Gold, "City of Tenants: New York's Housing Struggles and the Challenge to Postwar America, 1945-1970," (History, University of Washington, 2004)

The Student Research Prize

Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores, University of Michigan for "Temporary Housing, Permanent Communities: Public Housing Policy and Design in Puerto Rico"

The Francois Auguste de Montequin Prize for Best Conference Paper on American Colonial Planning History

Richard Harris, "The Evolution of British Housing Policy in the Colonial Caribbean, 1929-1960s."

The Laurence Gerckens Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Planning History Education

Mary Corbin Sies, University of Maryland