The theme of the IPHS 2026 conference is Atlanta Crossroads. We welcome papers from a broad spectrum of urban and regional planning history scholarship. We encourage innovative perspectives, resources, and methodologies. We celebrate creativity through multi-disciplinary engagement. 

Paper sessions will run 90 minutes (1.5 hours), generally with two (2) sessions in the morning and two (2) in the afternoon. Presentation details will be sent to accepted authors once the schedule is confirmed. Oral presentations in these sessions will run 10-15 minutes. Authors retain the rights to their work. Conference organizers are not responsible for plagiarism.

Papers related to the following themes are particularly of interest:
Planning the Olympics
W.E.B. Du Bois and planning history
Infrastructure Histories
U.S. South and the Global South
Social Movements and the City
Cities and Nature
Housing and Planning History 
Post-Colonial, De-Colonial Planning Trajectories
Colonial Urban Planning
Migrations and the City
New Town Planning
Port City Planning
Regions and Regional Planning in History
Capital Accumulation and Planning Histories
City development in Southeast Asia and other Asian Regions
Histories of Urbanization and Planning in China
Community Planning, Health, and Public Space
Transportation Planning Histories
Planning Historiography
City Planning and Heritage
Planning History Pedagogy

These instructions explain how to prepare and format your paper for the digital submittal. Please make sure to read and follow them carefully. Please use this guide and template for your paper submission, and delete the yellow-highlighted part before your submission.

• Please do not forget to upload your paper to easy chair.

The Document Template

Title (should be bold, Times New Roman, bold, size 13)

Author’s Name*, Author’s Name** (e.g. Jane Doe*. Font should be: Times New Roman, 11 points)

* First author affiliation & Email address 
** Second author affiliation& Email address 
(e.g. *PhD, Department of Urban Planning, m.briek@tudelft.nl, Font should be: Times New Roman, 10 points, italic).

This document provides you with information on the layout and reference style of papers to be submitted to the 21^st International Planning History Society Conference. Please use the word styles as provided in this document. Use the ‘title paper’ style for the title of your paper, the ‘author’s names’ style for the names of the authors, the ‘author’s affiliations style’ for the affiliations of the authors, the ‘abstract text’ style for your abstract, the ‘keyword text’ style for the keywords, the ‘subtitle’ style for the subtitles and the ‘plain text’ style for the text of your paper. This is the place where you should write your abstract. An abstract should have a clear and convincing structure that sets up the research question, introduces the case study or argument, and ends with some meaningful conclusions. Please replace this text with your own text. The abstract should not exceed 200 words. Please do not forget that the abstract, the introduction, the main body of your paper, and the conclusion should be Times New Roman, 10 points.  

Keywords: keyword 1, keyword 2, etc.

Introduction: Write your paper here, and please replace this text with your own text. The text area is defined in this document template, and it is based on an A4 sheet. Your paper should contain no less than 3000 words and should not exceed 4000 words (excluding abstract, notes, and bibliography). In addition, the document length for a paper must NOT exceed 12 PAGES, including references. Your paper should have an introduction and conclusion. Papers should be carefully edited in terms of style, grammar, and spelling. On matters of spelling and punctuation, we follow English rather than American style: thus, for example, colour/behaviour and familiarise/standardise. Please do not forget that the introduction font should be Times New Roman, 10 points.   

Subtitles: Subtitles should be bold, Times New Roman, bold, size 10. Please use the ‘subtitle’ style for subtitles and ‘plain text’ style for plain text.

Referencing: Formatting follows the ‘Chicago’ endnote referencing style as used by the journal Planning Perspectives (Taylor and Francis). This means that instead of using footnotes or name-date ‘Harvard’ references, your manuscript will be referenced with short endnotes, which connect to an alphabetical bibliography listing all the sources and works on which it is based. More information on the Chicago Reference Style can be found here: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html.

Tables and Figures: It is important to illustrate your paper with a good spread of high quality images. Please embed the figures in your text. However, You are welcome to include up to 6 images to illustrate points made in your text. The resolution of the images should be at least 300 pixels/inch (ppi). All images should be accompanied by a corresponding brief caption referred to by a number following the order of appearance (Figure 1, 2, …), please see the example below. The sources of the images should be included in Image sources after the bibliography (please see below).

Figure 1 - Planning Study 1971.  Several building types in this plan were constructed including the Hartung Theatre and College of Law. The ring road and proposed water feature are significantly different than what exists today

Acknowledgements: Please replace this text with your own. Please do not forget that the acknowledgements font should be Times New Roman, 10 points.

Disclosure Statement: No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author. Please do not forget that the text should be Times New Roman, 10 points.

Notes on contributor(s): Write a short biography of the contributor(s). The text should not exceed 100 words. In addition, the text should be Times New Roman, 10 points. 

Endnotes: Example:

… as documented by Hein^[1]. In addition, …..^[2]. However ….

Sample: (the font should be Times New Roman, 8 points)

^[1] Carola Hein, Port Cities: Dynamic Landscape and Global Networks (New York: Routledge, 2011). 24.

^[2] Ibid. 25.

Bibliography: Include an alphabetical bibliography here. If you use endnote program, it will do it automatically. In addition, the font should be Times New Roman, 10 points.

Hein, Carola. Port Cities: Dynamic Landscape and Global Networks.  New York: Routledge, 2011.

Image sources:

Figure 1: Library of Congress, Digital Archive [G7624.T4 1889 .M3].

Please consider that the Figure number, here, corresponds to the numbering used above. In addition, the font should be Times New Roman, 10 points.