The 18th biannual International Planning History Society (IPHS) conference took place 15–19 July 2018, in Yokohama, Japan. Themed ‘Looking at the World History of Planning’, the conference asked to enhance and promote the diversity of perspectives and narratives existing in the research of
cities and their planning history (select full papers and abstracts are available for public access from the IPHS website: https://journals.library.tudelft.nl/index.php/iphs/issue/archive). The conference consisted of diverse events.
In the panel entitled Planning Community without Planners, chaired by Nancy Kwak Dr. Heide Imai gave a presentation entitled “Urban Ordinaries – Vernacular Landscapes as Places of Diversity, Difference and Displacement”. The presentation was given as part of the Global Urban History Project (GUHP) which aims to encourage the study of cities as creations and creators of large-scale or global historical phenomena.
For more information:
http://www.globalurbanhistory.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=803980&module_id=305237