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The IPHS was
inaugurated in 1993 as a successor body to the Planning
History Group, founded in 1974 at London. The Society is
aimed at promoting open, interdisciplinary,
internationally-flavoured,‘town-and-down’ dialogue
between all interested in past, present and future of
urban and regional planning. Its membership is drawn
from several disciplines: planning, architecture,
economic and social history, geography, sociology,
environment, politics and allied fields. Being a society
to promote both multi-disciplinary and practice oriented
studies and research, its membership is open to all who
have a working interest in planning history. Thus it
welcomes members from both academic
disciplines and the professions of the built
environment. The Society for American City and Regional
Planning History (SACRPH) and the Urban History
Association (UHA) are American affiliates of IPHS.
Thus, the broad goals of the society are:
To foster the study of planning history to advance
scholarship in the fields of history, planning and the
environment, particularly focusing on industrial and
post-industrial cities..
To encourages and gives support to networks, which may
be interest based, region- or nation-based, working in
the fields of planning history
To provides services for numbers: publishing a journal,
promoting conferences, and providing an international
framework for informal individual member contact
To invites national organizations, whose work is
relevant to IPHS, to affiliate status In pursuit of
these aims the interests of IPHS are world-wide
The members of IPHS elect a governing council every two
years which is headed by the President of the society.
In turn the Council elects an executive Board of
Management complemented by representatives of SACRPH and
UHA. The President chairs the Board and Council. Since
1994, it organizes a bi-annual conference for academic
interactions among the scholars and planners. The
various conferences organized by the IPHS are given
below:
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S.No |
Year
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Host City |
Conference Theme |
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1 |
1977 |
London |
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2 |
1980 |
Brighton, U.K. |
The Giant City |
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3 |
1988 |
Tokyo |
Export of
Planning Ideas |
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4 |
1989 |
Birmingham |
The Garden City |
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5 |
1991 |
Richmond, VA |
Joint
With SACRPH |
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6 |
1994 |
Hong Kong |
Cities &
Their Environment |
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7 |
1996 |
Thessaloniki |
The Planning of Capital Cities |
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8 |
1998 |
Sydney |
20th Century Urban Planning
Experience |
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9 |
2000 |
Helsinki |
Centre-Periphery-Globalization:
Past and present |
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10 |
2002 |
London |
Cities of Tomorrow |
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11 |
2004 |
Barcelona |
Planning Models and culture of
Cities |
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12 |
2006 |
New Delhi |
Cross national
transfer of planning ideas and local identity |
The 12th International Conference of the
International Planning History Society (IPHS) will be held at New
Delhi between December 11-14, 2006. Delhi has witnessed the rise
and fall of several empires as their seat of Government,
hence, it was often been compared to a phoenix that resurrects
itself from its ashes. 3450 years of history have made it one of the
greatest capitals of the world. Delhi has been the Indian city that
has been the changing face of India over the last century in terms
of political, economic, cultural and industrial activities. It has
been the epicenter of India’s political life with more than 13.5
million inhabitants. A rich culture and heritage on one side as also
the evils of industrialization associated with rapid urbanization
make it one of the most unique capitals in the World. It is also
unique among all the capital cities of the world in the sense that
other than New Delhi there are seven-seventeen locations within
Delhi (i.e. comprising of seven cities), which were the seats of different
governments. However, the scope of this study is limited to the
planning and development aspects of Delhi in the 20th
century in terms of political and administrative developments,
population growth trends, industrial and commercial activities,
overall planning aspects, infrastructure development and financial
aspects (the resource generation as well as spending). The
administrative steps introduced from time to time to ensure proper
and sustained development of Delhi are also examined. These growth
trends are examined in relation to different phases during the
twentieth century. |
