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Volume 41, issue 2, 2026

Artificial Intelligence and the problems of authorship pp. 281-285

John R. Gold

Planning history and the challenge of AI: reflections upon a second edition of the Routledge handbook of planning history pp. 287-313

Carola Hein

‘The freedom of the place during daylight hours’: urban renewal and the fight over play streets in Newcastle upon Tyne, c.1955-1980 pp. 315-336

Sally Watson

Revisiting early city planning competitions: Per O. Hallman and the art of city building in Helsinki-Töölö and Gothenburg pp. 337-376

Andreea C. Blaga

Shaping and transposing: an analysis of the impacts of case law on the evolution of planning practice in twentieth century England & Wales pp. 377-395

Oliver Botea Carr

Production of urban farms: shaping the behavior and attitudes of individuals in the workers’ landscape – the Atatürk Forest Farm in early modern Türkiye pp. 397-427

Hasan Doğan

The causes of Olympic stadium cost overruns from 2000 to 2020 pp. 429-448

Maike Weitzmann and Holger Preuss

Advancing regional and community planning in Australia: the contribution of the Office of Frank Heath 1939–1948 pp. 449-475

Catherine Townsend, David Nichols and Robert Freestone

Industrial land in the planning imaginary – the role and place of industry in strategic plans for Melbourne, 1929–2017 pp. 477-498

Elizabeth Jean Taylor, Carl Grodach and Joe Hurley

Favela removal and urban planning in Brasília from the 1950s to the 1970s pp. 499-526

Maria Fernanda Derntl

Planning regeneration through building industry and urban design: the Architecture of the Karst Group in the framework of the economic perspectives of the Osimo Treaty (1975–1989) pp. 527-549

Raimondo Mercadante

Post compact city: Brasília’s modernist void in the context of the twenty-first-century urbanization pp. 551-561

Luciana Saboia, Guilherme Lassance, Carolina Pescatori and Cauê Capillé

Deconstructing amenity: the unrealized nuclear power sites of Edern (Llŷn Peninsula, Wales) and Hamstead (Isle of Wight, England) pp. 563-574

Wenna Potter

Pueblos de Colonización. Miradas a un Paisaje Inventado [Colonization towns. Glances at an invented landscape] pp. 575-577

Gaia Caramellino

Italy builds abroad. Architettura italiana oltre confine 1945-1989 [Italian architecture across the border, 1945-1989] pp. 577-579

Paolo Scrivano

Building modern Scotland: a social and architectural history of the new towns, 1947–1997 pp. 579-581

James Greenhalgh

The black tax – 150 years of theft, exploitation, and dispossession in America pp. 581-583

Joseph A. Rodriguez

Up in the Air – a history of high-rise Britain pp. 584-586

Miles Glendinning

Volume 41, issue 1, 2026

On anniversaries and milestones: Planning Perspectives at 40 pp. 1-7

John R. Gold and Carola Hein

Editing Planning Perspectives: 40 years of growth and transformation pp. 9-20

Peter J. Larkham

‘A map to aid the traveller’: the birth, death and afterlife of Planning History pp. 21-37

Robert Freestone

The Planning Perspectives Contribution to African Planning History: achievements and opportunities pp. 39-50

Robert Home

Nordic urban planning culture and transnational influences in 1850–2025 pp. 51-70

Laura Kolbe

The city beautiful, the city sustainable, the city profitable: what changed in Chicago’s planning priorities after a century? pp. 71-89

Sonia A. Hirt and Sarah Z. Beeson

Catherine Bauer and Mel Webber: collaborators at Berkeley pp. 91-109

Ellen Shoshkes and Sy Adler

Planning histories and the environmental turn pp. 111-121

Filippo De Pieri

Decolonizing Planning Perspectives: opportunities for the future pp. 123-139

Juliet Davis and Clare Melhuish

Epistemic decolonization of urban and regional planning and its historiography: towards planning otherwise pp. 141-165

Luce Beeckmans

Through the camera lens: the role of photography in shaping planning histories pp. 167-184

Wes Aelbrecht and Laura Bowie

The potential of geospatial technologies and open data in planning history pp. 185-202

Yvonne van Mil, Carola Hein and Vincent Baptist

Watching histories being made: remembering and reflecting on two early works by the founding editors pp. 203-220

Stephen V. Ward

Wanderers above the fog: revisiting 1980s modernity and postmodernity with Berman and Harvey pp. 221-231

John R. Gold

Tomorrow never knows: Cities of Tomorrow on the edge of 40 pp. 233-239

Stephen J. Ramos

Werner Hegemann: Architect of transatlantic urbanism. The American Vitruvius: an architects' handbook of civic art pp. 241-244

Javier Monclús

The Character of Towns: An Approach to Conservation pp. 244-246

John Pendlebury

Eventful Cities: Cultural Management and Revitalisation pp. 247-251

Margaret M. Gold

Planning culture evolving through accumulations of the vicious cycle of practices: an investigation route for Turkey and beyond pp. 253-279

Tugce Sanli

Volume 40, issue 6, 2025

Exhibitionary urbanism: International Expos and city planning, 1851–2025 pp. 1421-1437

Andrew Smith, John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold

Modern exposition fairgrounds: visions of the future / legacies of the past pp. 1439-1480

Lisa D. Schrenk

International exhibitions and open public spaces: echoes of the times or forerunners? pp. 1481-1506

Javier Monclús and Carmen Díez-Medina

From the attempts to create a modern city to its globalization: a historiography of the Spanish international exhibitions (1888–2008) pp. 1507-1531

Federico Camerin and Miguel Fernández Maroto

From Expo to shopping centre, from ideology to social imaginary: representations of the ‘discoveries’ in 1990s Lisbon pp. 1533-1557

Salomé Honório, Annarita Gori and Simone Tulumello

Displaying planning knowledge: early twentieth-century expositions and the transnational influence on Swedish city planning pp. 1559-1595

Andreea C. Blaga

Conditioning the future: Paris 1937 as a civic and urban event pp. 1597-1613

Ulf Strohmayer

Building bridges on the brink of war: urban planning, Pan-American identity, and the international expositions of 1939 pp. 1615-1641

James J. Fortuna

New York City’s 1939–40 and 1964–65 World’s Fairs: from Valley of Ashes to grandiose twenty-first century projects pp. 1643-1667

Ray Bromley

Greenizing the Chinese city: urban regeneration, state developmentalism, and ecotopia in Shanghai Expo 2010 pp. 1669-1688

Qianyu Lu and Richard Hu

Ekistics data. Mapping Jaqueline Tyrwhitt’s abstracts of technical assistance, 1955–1972 pp. 1689-1708

Martin Kohlberger, H. le Roux and T. Avermaete

Ruin of the seaport: causes of the abandonment of Puerto Colombia and the loss of a coastal gem pp. 1709-1725

Pedro Abel Romero and Mark Michael Betts Alvear

À l’échelle du quartier. Histoire d’une notion d’urbanisme (1890-1960) [At the neighborhood scale. History of a concept in urban planning (1890–1960)] pp. 1727-1729

Nicole De Togni

Cotidiano Conjunto: Domesticidade e Patrimonialização da Habitação Social Moderna pp. 1729-1730

Liliana Andrea Clavijo

Encontro da Antropologia com a favela. Anthony e Elizabeth Leeds no Jacarezinho (Anthropology meets the Favela. Anthony and Elizabeth Leeds in Jacarezinho) pp. 1731-1732

Rafael Soares Gonçalves

Volume 40, issue 5, 2025

Land matters: planning histories of value, use and property pp. 1087-1097

Dasha Kuletskaya, Susanne Schindler and Franziska Kramer

Baroque Rome was not planned in a day: forms of immunity in Alexander VII’s and Louis XIV’s urban strategies (1656–68) pp. 1099-1132

Fabio Gigone

Heteronomy as a land issue in long-term planning history: the case of the Landes airial in France in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries pp. 1133-1154

Emilie Ropert Dupont

Towards a spatial history of debt: planning and the production of value in Amsterdam 1870–2010 pp. 1155-1184

Gabriel Schwake and Iris Burgers

From urban planning to urban design: the 1893 Zurich Building Act and its impact on land use, ownership structures and urban form pp. 1185-1212

Sanna Kattenbeck

Miasma, microbe, and the administration of land in early twentieth-century Port Fouad pp. 1213-1234

Marianne Dhenin and Mohamed Gamal-Eldin

The double spine and the blue boulevard plans: morphological visions and territorial politics of Israeli expansionism pp. 1235-1259

Alona Nitzan Shiftan and Cheyn Lambert

From apartments to land: fragmented property transitions in Soviet-era urban residential districts pp. 1261-1283

Marina Sapunova

‘To make a town’: landscape architecture, land, and settlement in the Panama Canal Zone, 1913–1915 pp. 1285-1308

Nicolay Duque-Robayo

Modernizing the countryside: Israeli rural planning expertise for the Venezuelan agrarian reform during the 1960s pp. 1309-1334

Ricardo Avella

A land expropriation machine: the first years of the Urban Improvement Corporation (CORMU) in Chile (1967–1970) pp. 1335-1360

Francisco Díaz

Translating land: cultural development encounters in Canadian and Alaska Indigenous land studies, 1968–1981 pp. 1361-1386

Lasse Rau

Spatial transformation and water infrastructure in coastal Jiangsu: the role of land reclamation companies during the early twentieth century pp. 1387-1400

Mingran Cao

Planning the Arid Port City in Iran: Siraf's water heritage landscape as a Sassanid urban strategy pp. 1401-1410

Marziyeh Tahmasbi, Steffen Nijhuis and Mehdi Haghighat Bin

Désir de nature dans le Grand Tunis. Pour une végétalisation de la ville dense [Desire of nature in greater Tunis. In favour of a vegetalisation of the dense city] pp. 1411-1412

Nora Lafi

Urban Flood Risk Management: Looking at Jakarta pp. 1412-1414

Delik Hudalah

Sustainable urban agriculture: new frontiers pp. 1414-1416

Arini Evadillah, Nuzlia Nur Aini, Wiwin Krisnawati and Nurhaliza

Hong Kong Public Housing: An Architectural and Policy History pp. 1416-1418

Ying-Xian Cassandra Luk

The Renewal of Post-war Manchester: planning, Architecture and the State pp. 1418-1420

John R. Gold

Volume 40, issue 4, 2025

Correction pp. i-i

The Editors

What is radical planning history? pp. 833-841

Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago

Where there’s a will, is there a way? Reflections on the institutional afterlife of the London Docklands Development Corporation pp. 843-861

Mike Raco and Sonia Freire-Trigo

The role of tramway systems in shaping urban growth: a historical GIS study of four Spanish cities pp. 863-884

Irene Méndez-Manjón and Pedro Plasencia-Lozano

Welfare state architecture on a domestic scale – social planning of the public daycare system in Finland in the 1970s and 1980s pp. 885-902

Hanna Tyvelä

Detroit imagined: intertextuality and the photobook as urban history pp. 903-925

Wes Aelbrecht

Fragmented: highways and the failure of the Abbasabad project in Tehran pp. 927-952

M. Farid Mosleh

Romanian water-cure resorts and the state before the Second World War: health, leisure and public-private partnership pp. 953-974

Cosmin-Ștefan Dogaru

Colonial development policies as tools of ecological imperialism in Southeast Asia pp. 975-994

Ambe J. Njoh

Strategic easing of height restrictions: Unveiling the intersection of free market principles and colonial mentality in Hong Kong’s urban densification pp. 995-1015

Junwei Li

The subjugation to contingency: Popper, postructuralism, and fear of the plan pp. 1017-1035

Tahl Kaminer

Uncovering informal urbanisation process in the city of Dar es Salaam: tracing from the colonial regime pp. 1037-1059

Jacob Lutta and Yves Schoonjans

The Molo district plan. A turning point in Renzo Piano’s work in Genoa pp. 1061-1075

Alberto Grassetti

Informal Metropolis: life on the edge of Mexico City, 1940–1976 pp. 1077-1078

Leandro Benmergui

The zone: An alternative history of Paris pp. 1079-1081

Jacob Paskins

The city in the city – architecture and change in London’s financial district pp. 1081-1084

Alexandra Quantrill

Architecture and welfare. Scandinavian perspectives pp. 1084-1086

Eugenio Lux

Volume 40, issue 3, 2025

Affordable housing in the 1910s–1930s: new narratives on unbeaten tracks pp. 453-471

Chiara Monterumisi, Aino Niskanen and Johan Mårtelius

Governor’s houses: unique Gothenburg workers’ housing pp. 473-493

Claes Caldenby

Hallman in Stockholm: the garden-city movement in artistic town planning for working-class families pp. 495-525

Monica Andersson

Gunnar Asplund’s response (1917) to the Stockholm emergency housing programme in a social perspective pp. 527-560

Eva Eriksson

Reformistic approaches to mass housing in the metropolis: 1920s Copenhagen and Stockholm perimeter blocks pp. 561-605

Chiara Monterumisi and Martin Søberg

Rare yet relevant: Trondheim Cooperative Housing Association pp. 607-632

Nina Berre, Eli Støa and Steffen Wellinger

Worker’s housing in Kristiania 1909–1913: garden suburbs by Morgenstierne and Eide versus reformed tenement blocks by Kristen Rivertz pp. 633-672

Espen Johnsen

Wooden Käpylä - the birth of a garden city pp. 673-705

Simo Paavilainen, Pekka Heikkinen and Aino Niskanen

Old and New Vallila. The early years of affordable housing production in Helsinki pp. 707-724

Riitta Nikula

Architecture between empire and revolution: housing and the shaping of Soviet Leningrad pp. 725-750

Markus Lähteenmäki

From Utopias to Roman residential realities: the golden era of Roman social housing 1919–1932 pp. 751-787

Anu Kaisa Koponen

Urban planning and development in Shenzhen – interview with Dr. Chen Yixin pp. 789-803

Yanchen Sun and Tianchen Dai

The role of the third plague pandemic in colonial India as the impetus for the improvement trusts and urban transformation in Bombay, Mysore, and Calcutta pp. 805-822

Hanife Vardı Topal and Zehra Betül Atasoy

The great American transit disaster: a century of austerity, auto-centric planning, and white flight pp. 823-824

Matthew Heins

Form follows fever: malaria and the construction of Hong Kong, 1841–1849 pp. 824-826

Zhijian Sun

Urbanizing Suburbia: hyper-gentrification, the financialization of housing, and the remaking of the Outer European City pp. 826-828

Loretta Lees

Modernism’s Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital pp. 828-831

Leandro Benmergui

Volume 40, issue 2, 2025

Regulating capital investment in urban property: towards comparative-historical research in planning history pp. 201-221

André Sorensen and Neve Adams

Joint City: cross-border planning diffusion, local elites, and planning practices – case studies of Kouang-Tchéou-Wan and Swatow, 1898–1945 pp. 223-263

Yi Liu, Baihao Li and Congcong Yao

The principles of land value capture in the perspective of Georgist political economy pp. 265-282

Owiti A. K’Akumu

The UK levelling up strategy and changing the spatial economy pp. 283-300

Colin Jones

Spatial informality, urban regularization, and social resistance: Tianqiao as a public space for the poor, 1911–1937 pp. 301-325

Xusheng Huang

Ideation, deviation, persistence, and implementation – Six decades of pedestrianization in Antwerp’s urban core pp. 327-351

Kelly Gregg and Conrad Kickert

Decoding the socio-spatial mosaic of public space: an in-depth exploration of Taksim Square pp. 353-374

İbrahim Eren and Esin Özlem Aktuğlu Aktan

Beyond Chinatown: Chinese diaspora, the transition of power, and the planning of the City of Medan in Dutch East Indies pp. 375-403

Yinrui Xie and Amanda Achmadi

Connexions: a special section of Planning Perspectives dedicated to advancing planning history at the intersection of multiple academic disciplines and practices pp. 405-406

Carola Hein

Israel’s planning historiography: interrogating spatio-temporal discourse and ‘whiteness’ pp. 407-419

Matan Flum

Real estate agency: land, housing and finance in urban and planning history conference pp. 421-431

Rachel Gallagher

Obituary of Professor Shun-ichi Watanabe (1938–2024): searching for a truly ‘international’ planning history pp. 433-440

Fukuo Akimoto

The promise of planning. global aspirations and South African experience since 2008 pp. 441-442

Carlos Nunes Silva

Co-operative conditions: a primer on architecture, finance and regulation in Zurich pp. 443-445

Miles Glendinning

Check dam construction for sustainable watershed management and planning pp. 445-447

Yenni Febriani and Vina Yunita

Monuments decolonized. Algeria’s French colonial heritage pp. 447-449

Nora Lafi

The Delos Symposia and Doxiadis pp. 449-451

Nicole De Togni

Volume 40, issue 1, 2025

Correction pp. i-i

The Editors

Urban planning in the Americas during the Cold War pp. 1-5

Katharina Schembs

An Americas story: hemispheric perspectives on postwar urban renewal pp. 7-20

Lizabeth Cohen

Limits of inter-American cooperation: large dams and urban planning in Latin America after 1945 pp. 21-38

Frederik Schulze

Conjectures on an absence: Latin American planning thought, seen in the mirror of Revolutionary Cuba pp. 39-51

Adrián Gorelik

Two technical assistance methods: the activity of the Ford Foundation in Chile and Argentina, 1960–1972 pp. 53-78

Alejandra Inés Monti

From Model Reform Country to Critic: Chile and its cooperation with the USA in urban planning and housing under Eduardo Frei Montalva (1964–1970) pp. 79-96

Katharina Schembs

The assembly of locally rooted industrial networks in the Pearl River Delta region: insights for the regeneration of industrial land pp. 97-115

Mingmin Pan and Mee Kam Ng

Paternal partnerships: how Aramco transformed Saudi environments, bodies, minds, and homes, c. 1930–1970s pp. 117-144

Dalal Musaed Alsayer

Eforie Sud from glory to oblivion - a historical and urbanistic overview of the first balneoclimatic resort of Romania. 1898–2024 pp. 145-163

Daniela-Ioana Guju, Gabor-Giovani Luca, Anca-Roxana Strugariu and Bogdan-Laurențiu Petric

Beyond the curtain: the impact of political non alignment on the urban reconstruction of Skopje pp. 165-184

Elena Andonova and María Cristina García González

Report on the XXXI International Seminar on Urban Form Conference, São Paulo, Brazil, 16–20 September 2024 pp. 185-189

Karin Schwabe Meneguetti and Renato Leão Rego

Imagining Manila: literature, empire, and orientalism pp. 191-192

Mar Lorence G. Ticao

Community green: rediscovering the enclosed spaces of the garden suburb tradition pp. 192-194

Bruce Stephenson

Ebenezer Howard: inventor of the garden city pp. 194-196

Stephen V. Ward

Le shrinking cities nella Germania Est riunificata [Shrinking Cities in Reunified East Germany] pp. 196-197

Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi

Urban surfaces, graffiti, and the right to the city pp. 197-200

Emma Arnold