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UHPH Keynotes

The UHPH2024 conference organising committee is delighted to announce our line-up of keynote speakers:

Simon Barber Papatūānuku (Earth Mother) and the Grammar of Private Property 

Robert Freestone Imagining and contesting planned urban futures: The legacies and lessons of an unbuilt Sydney

Julie McIntyre

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Simon Barber (Kāi Tahu) is a lecturer in Sociology at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka | University of Otago.…

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“UHPH Keynotes”

Real Estate Agency: Land, Housing and Finance in Urban and Planning History

UHPH 2024, University of Sydney, July 11-13, 2024

Plan for Sydney (1948), by Reg Thornton. Source: State Library of NSW

In the cities of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, real estate seems to be almost a second nature. It is a pervasive fact in daily life, structuring the economy and the environment.…

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“Real Estate Agency: Land, Housing and Finance in Urban and Planning History”

AUHPH Group Postgraduate Symposium 2023

On behalf of James Lesh, Anna Temby, Cameron Logan and Robert Freestone, thank you to our postgraduate students, session respondents, keynote speaker Lisa Murray and public audience for the successful AUHPH Group Postgraduate Symposium on 22 September 2023.

The AUHPH Group is committed to fostering postgraduate urban and planning historians and we hope to repeat this symposium in future years.…

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“AUHPH Group Postgraduate Symposium 2023”

IPHS 20th Biennial Conference, July 2024, Hong Kong SAR: First Call for Papers and Panels

On behalf of the International Planning History Society (IPHS) you are invited to submit a paper or panel proposal for the forthcoming 20th Biennial Conference, to be held in mid-2024 in at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.General information about the 2024 Hong Kong event can be found at the website https://iphs2024.cuhk.edu.hk,…

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“IPHS 20th Biennial Conference, July 2024, Hong Kong SAR: First Call for Papers and Panels”

S. J. Butlin Prize 2023

The Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand is inviting nominations for the 2023 S. J. Butlin Prize for best Masters or PhD thesis in Australian or New Zealand economic history, awarded in calendar years 2020, 2021 or 2022. The applied definition of ‘economic’ is broad, encompassing business history and labour history, as well as more cross-disciplinary work in fields such as environmental history, urban history, agricultural history, political history.  …

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“S. J. Butlin Prize 2023”

Register for AUHPH Group Postgraduate Symposium 2023

The Australasian Urban History / Planning History Group is hosting an online Zoom Postgraduate Symposium on 22 September 2023. The symposium is intended to provide a supportive and collegiate environment for students to receive thesis feedback and advice from scholars whose work engages with historical perspectives on cities, planning and the built environment more broadly.…

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YIMBYs and NIMBYs unite! You can have both heritage protection and more housing

James Lesh, Deakin University

Heritage conservation has been blamed for making the housing crisis worse by standing in the way of new, higher-density housing. But protecting heritage and increasing housing should be complementary objectives. Heritage suffers when not enjoyed by our growing communities.…

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“YIMBYs and NIMBYs unite! You can have both heritage protection and more housing”

CFP: European Association of Urban History, September 2024

It is a great privilege to inform you that the sixteenth conference of the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) will take place in Ostrava, Czech Republic from 4 to 7 September 2024.

The call for papers is now open. Papers must be submitted to a main session, specialist session, or roundtable.…

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2022 AUHPHG/SAHANZ Conference Proceedings – now available

The proceedings of the 2022 SAHANZ Conference ‘Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings’ (held jointly with the Australasian Urban History Planning History Group) are now available through the Publications pages of the SAHANZ website (here). 

Consisting of 40 papers, they can be accessed in the form of an entire 665-page document or, alternatively, the papers can be viewed and downloaded individually.…

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“2022 AUHPHG/SAHANZ Conference Proceedings – now available”

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