ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the contribution of the pioneers together with the networks and the major vehicles of dissemination that they established. The History of planning group was more snappily retitled as the planning history group and formally organized on a membership basis, with Gordon Cherry continuing as chairman. Cherry, who soon became leader of the group, also began to realize the value of making the network more completely international, a shift definitively signaled by the first international planning history conference, held in London in 1977. Planning history has come from individual researchers, or from small research teams or clusters based in a variety of academic disciplines, including planning, history, geography, architecture, and history of art. The greatest continuity, however, has been in relation to the vehicles of planning history, where conferences and publications continue to be the most tangible products of this field.