Society for American City and Regional Planning History
Presents
13th Biennial Conference on Planning History
Oakland, California
October 15 - 18, 2009
The conference will take place at the Oakland Marriott City Center in downtown Oakland. The hotel, which is located adjacent to the 12th St Station of the Bay Area Regional Transit (BART) system, provides easy access to the Old Oakland commercial district and scenic Lake Merritt, with the lively Jack London Square and Uptown entertainment districts within walking distance. Visit http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/oakdt-oakland-marriott-city-center for additional information. Oakland is served by Oakland International Airport (approximately 15 minutes) and San Francisco International Airport (approximately 40 minutes); both airports are served by BART. Conference attendees might also investigate flights into Mineta San Jose International airport—a greater distance, but possible savings. In addition, Amtrak stops in downtown Oakland.
2007 Conference Program
2007 Conference Headquarters (hotel information)
2007 Conference Registration Form (online or download)
Portland Conference Recap
Our 12th Biennial Conference on Planning History in Portland, Maine was our largest conference ever, with over 300 registrants. By all accounts, our co-hosting arrangement with the Northern New England Chapter of the American Planning Association (NNECAPA) was an overwhelming success, helping us to fulfill our mission of engaging historians and practicing planners in meaningful dialogue about urban planning and metropolitan development.
We also experienced wonderful weather, especially for our boat tour of Casco Bay and the Sunday morning walking and bus tours. We were treated to a stimulating pre-conference workshop on working waterfronts in a post-industrial economy; a plenary session examining waterfront planning from national and global perspectives; an engaging keynote address by
Dolores Hayden on rethinking suburban history; a thought-provoking presidential address by Greg Hise on the place of regionalism in planning history; and two days of paper presentations devoted to histories of planning, architecture, historic preservation and related topics.
We were pleased to recognize so many outstanding contributions to the scholarship on planning history at our awards ceremony (see below for list of winners). We also are grateful to our members whose contributions to the organization allowed us to award student travel grants to some of the students delivering papers at the conference.
We would like to thank all of you for your contributions to the conference, and invite you to begin planning for the 13th National Conference on Planning History in Oakland, California in the fall of 2009.