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1999 Vol.21 No2 JP1LANNKNG HKSTORY BULLETIN OF THE INTERNATIONAL PLANNING HISTORY SOCIETY VOL. 21 NO. 2 • 1999 ISSN 0959-5805 PlANNliNG Hli§TORY BULLETIN OF THE INT ERNATIONAL PLANNING HISTORY SOCIETY PlANNliNG HliSTORY BULL ETI EDITOR Dr Robert K. I tome Department of Surveying Or Peter J. Larkham University of East London Birmmgham School of Planmng Dagenham Univers1ty of Central England Essex CON1rJEN1rS Perry Barr RMS 2AS, UK 81rmmgham Tel: (0)181 590 7722 x2504 I Fax: (0181 849 3618 B42 2SU E-mail: [email protected] UK Or Kiki Kafkoula Tel: 0121 331 5145 I Fax: 0121 356 9915 Department of Urban and Regional Planning E-mail: [email protected] School of Architecture Aristotle University of Thessalonika Thessalonika 54006 EDITORIAL BOARD Greece Tel: 3031 995495 I Fax: 3031 995576 Or Arturo Almandoz Departamento de Plan1ficacion Urbana Professor John Muller EDITORIAL page 2 Umven.1dad S1mon Bohvar Department of Town and Reg1onal Planning Aptdo. 89000 University of Witwatersrand Editorship of Plamring History 4 Caracas 1086 Johannesburg Venezuela PO Wlls 2050 NOTICES 5 Tel (58 2) 906 4037 I 38 South Afnca E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 011 716 2654 I Fax: 011 403 2519 E-mail: 041 MUJ®cosmos.w1ts.ac.za Obituary: David A llan H a m er 7 Dr llalma Dunm-Woyseth Oslo School of Architecture Professor Georgio P1ccmato Twenty-five years of planning history 9 Department of Urban Planning Facolta di Architettura A11tlrony Sutcliffe PO Box 271 3001 Drammen Universita di Roma 3 Norway Via Madonna dei Monti 40 ARTICLES Tel: 47 22 20 83 16 I Fax: 47 22 11 19 70 00184 Roma Italy Although God cannot alter the past, historians can: 11 Professor M ichael Ebner Tel: +39 6 678 8283 I Fax: +39 6 481 8625 refl ecti ons on the writing of planning his tories E-mail: [email protected] Department of llistory jolrn Muller Lake Forest College 555 North Shendan Road Or Pieter Uyttenhove ll y-unprepared planning contexts 20 L.lke forest, IL 60045-2399 64 rue des Moines Historical analysis in historica USA F-75017 Roger Boden Tel: 708 735 5135 I Fax: 708 735 6291 Paris France The regeneration of the Old Town of Edinburgh by Dr Gerhard fehl Patrick Geddes 33 I ehrstuhl fur Planung::.theone Professor Stephen V. Ward Sofia G. Leonard Techmsche llochschule Aachen School of Planmng 52062 Aachen Oxford Brookes UmverSlty PUBLICATlO NS 48 Schmkelstrasse 1 Headmgton Oxford Germany REVISED INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS 56 Tel 0241 805029 I Fax: 0241 8888137 OX3 OBP UK Or Robert rree~tone Tel· 01865 483421 I Fax: 01865 483559 Planmng and Urban Development Program E-mail: svward@brooke:..ac.uk faculty of the BUilt Environment Um\·er~1ty of New South Wales Professor Shun-1ch1 Watanabe Sydney NSW 2052 Science Umversity of 1 okyo Australia Yamazaki, Noda-shi Tel. 02 9385 4836 I Fax: 02 9901 4505 Chiba-ken 278 E-mall: R . Frec~tonl>@un s w .edu.au Japan Tel: 81 474 24 1501 I Fax: 81 471 25 7833 PLANNING HISTORY VO L. 21 NO. 2 • 1999 • PAGE 1 acknowled g ing the intellectual influence of languilge is albeit perhaps others. unintentionally - JEDK1rORKA1L To what extent, therefore, should a journal whose roots are firmly within the "bending the ways of writing and of North Atlantic axis of academic culture displaying an argument. I say without LARKHAM, UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ENGLAND PETER J. seek t o s hape contributions to fit tha t intention, because those things are o;o model? How can reviewers be instructed incorporated in languages and m to be fl exible, and is there some abstract academic cultures that we are only notion of 'academic quality' that aware of then when confronted with transcends s uch things as writing style, other languages and cultures." versary Developing the journal Celebrating the a nni referencing s tyle a nd so on? issue of Peer r eviewing continues, and all This is another bumper Planning Obviously, this is a n i ssue faced by This does raise a very significant point in lebration of the 25th comments received so far have been History, partly in ce many mainstream academic journals. lt is, terms of how a journal can service the anniversary, and partly since the material favourable: although one key issue has perhaps, more of an issue for a journal needs of a membership I readership of tion neatly focuses been raised, which 1 discuss below. submitted for publica such as Planning History, w hich has a such differing origins, ling uistic and on aspects of 'what is planning history Indeed, one of the papers in this issue responsibility to refl ect the v iews o f the cogniti ve traditions, and academic , together with a re­ generated the most enthusiastic and and how do we do it' IPHS and its members. Yet I see little cultures. Yet we do need to retain, indeed positive response that I have ever seen appraisal of some of the materials evidence in the majority of academic improve, the 'quality' of the journal's that key figure in from a reviewer. 1 hope that this s tandard produced by a nd for journals that the diversity in traditional contents. planning history, Patrick Geddes. can be maintained! styles and approaches is being catered for. My own preference is for clarity in contribution from Readers may notice another innovation We have a welcome This issue has a risen several times in writing to allow the broadest , Editor of in this issue. That is, a change to permit Professor Tony Sutcliffe Planning my editori al experience, and can result in understanding: although this might go the use of both Harvard and Oxford Perspectives and joint organiser of the very fundamental disagreements between against the 'mystification' that some see m t developed into the referencing systems, at the choice of the first meeting of wha author and reviewer. The negotiations to much academic discourse: up, forerunner of the author. The bulk of papers submitted Planning Histo ry G ro arrive a t an agreed publishable output can TPHS. One final personal view, from one have used Harvard, and this has led to be delicate. One contributor has usefully "Do, ils a concession to my poor wits, at first meeting, Peter considerable expenditure o f effort by the of the speakers a t th expressed these issues to me (and r am Lord Darhngton, just explain to me in the next issue. editor and authors in converting to the Hall, should appear grateful for his permission to quote them what you really mean. I welcome two papers on the substance former house style. There has, of course, here): "I thinl-. I had better not, Duchess, It is pure coincidence been considerable debate over these styles o f planning history. owildav<>, to be intelligible is to be that both come from the same University - most notably perhaps by the geographer "this is a major issue behveen French found out." I carry Derek Cregory in a g uest editorial for department in South Africa. and English / American rhetoric: [the] (Oscar Wilde, Lady Environme11t n11d P/nmting B. Notably, and editorial responsibility for one, having French try to build something we Windermere's Fan, 1892) entertai ningly, Cregory (1990} 1 provided particularly e ncouraged its author to think consider [to be] subtle, where the st he was otherwise the same argument but structured in the in this direction whil reader must find his way until, at the 1 his is a fertile field for future debate. oying a resident visiting professorship two formats. Interestingly, in this very enj end, he sees the light of our cleverness I would welcome opinion<; from the IPHS in my own Faculty. Is this an incentive issue, Roger Boden also passes comment ... Hence a lot of things are implicit. membership on how the journal should take up this theme from other on the imp lications inherent in these for others to The ang lo-saxon rhetoric is much more proceed in this respect. And perhaps it is a l perspectives - perhaps addressing systems (pp. 26, 29). nation authoritati ve, nomothetic 1 would high time thnt editorship passed out of the Tony Sutcliffe's I certainly do not wish to d ispense with the question posed by almost say: the game is to s tress from North Atlantic axis? 1 encourage some the style that h as served the journal well fina l paragraph? would the beginning what one wants to prove, debate in these pages about this crucial so far: however, weighing the pros and show, demonstrate ... Hence a very References cons, it now seems appropriate- as, issue. direct writing style. Even when you back and forwards in this indeed, some other journals do - to offer In looking tt·ys to peak a foreign language, you It is extremely difficult to give traditional 25th anniversary year 1 rei terate my view authors the choice of reference s ty le. cannot get rid of that way of thinking references for these editorials: one is also be thinking about that we should and writing. entitled 'Gregory D. (1990)' and the other some of the educational issues Problems of refereeing: academic cultures simply '(l)', in EnvmmiiU'nt nnd Plan11i11g surrounding planning history. Why do There is a clear problem in any academic As editor, I was being reminded here that 0: Sc>cit>ty and Space Vol. 8, 1990, pp. l-6. we teach it? I low do we teach it? Why journal that seeks to reflect the varied an international journal that uses only one do students seem to feel that it is boring need s and styles of an international and irrelevant? Can we use new readership.
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