The 2007 SACRPH Prize Winners Are:

The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2007 awards, presented at the 12th National Conference on Planning History in Portland, Maine on October 27. Every two years, SACRPH offers a series of awards, accompanied by cash prizes, for outstanding books and papers in the field of planning history. The 2007 competition was open to relevant works published between August 2005 and July 2007. The Society also recognizes outstanding achievement in planning education.

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The Lewis Mumford Prize for Best Book in American Planning History

Carl Smith(Northwestern University), for The Plan of Chicago: Daniel
Burnham and the Remaking of the American City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006)

The Lewis Mumford Prize for Best Book in American Planning History (Honorable Mention)

Joel Tarr (Carnegie Mellon University) and Clay McShane (Northeastern University), for The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007).

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

Michael E. Smith(Arizona State University) for "Form and Meaning in the Earliest Cities: A New Approach to Ancient Urban Planning," Journal of Planning History 6:1 (Feb. 2007), 3-47.

The Catherine Bauer Wurster Prize for Best Article in American Planning History (Honorable Mention)

Guian McKee (University of Virginia) for "Blue Sky Boys, Professional Citizens, and Knights in Shining Money: Philadelphia's Penn Center Project and the Constraints of Private Development," Journal of Planning History 6:1 (Feb. 2007), 48-80.

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

PhD: Kelly Anne Quinn, for "Making Modern Homes: A History of Langston Terrace Dwellings, A New Deal Housing Program in Washington, D.C." (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, 2007).

Master's: Marie Ray Warsh, for "'The Truest Reform Work: The Children's School Farm, New York City, 1902-1931." (Master??s thesis, Bard College, 2007).

The Student Research Prize

Brian Robick, (Doctoral Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University) for "Urban Blight and Community Reaction to the Gateway Center Redevelopment Project; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1946-1950."

The Laurence Gerckens Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Planning History Education

Christopher Silver, Professor and Dean, College of Design, Construction, and Planning, University of Florida.