Thirteenth Biennial Conference Of The International Planning History Society, Chicago, Usa, 10-13 July 2008

摘要

Conferences organized by the International Planning History Society (IPHS) have, since the late 1970s, offered valuable opportunities to survey historical and contemporary urban planning concepts and strategies, and urban morphology old and new. Attracting more than 250 delegates from over 20 nations the Thirteenth IPHS conference drew together scholars from a variety of locations and scholarly backgrounds united by a common purpose of considering the make-up of the world's urban communities, and appraising themes relating to public and private planning past and present. Opening with a plenary address by Neil Harris (University of Chicago), Carl Smith (Northwestern University) and Kristen Schaffer (North Carolina State University) on Daniel Burnham's 1909 Chicago Plan, attention was immediately drawn to the theme of environmental configuration.