Stephen Victor Ward
Job Title: Professor of Planning History
Institutional affiliation: Oxford Brookes University, UK
BA (Hons) History and Geography 1970 and Diploma (1971) and PhD (1983), University of Birmingham. He studied under both the late Tony Sutcliffe and the late Gordon Cherry. His own career has been inspired by this early exposure to these two ‘godfathers’ of the ‘new’ planning history. He was a founder member (1974-) and President (1996-2002) of the International Planning History Society. He edited the journal Planning Perspectives 2002-2006. His books include The Garden City: Past, Present and Future (1992), Selling Places: The Marketing and Promotion of Towns and Cities 1850-2000 (1998), Planning the Twentieth-Century City: The Advanced Capitalist World (2002) and Planning and Urban Change (2004) and The Peaceful Path: Building Garden Cities and New Towns (2016). He has also published many articles and book chapters on planning history and has lectured widely on historical subjects in the planning field. As well as a longstanding interest in efforts to create planned new communities, he is particularly interested in the international circulation of planning knowledge.
Publications
Orillard, C., and S.V. Ward. “Planning the World’s New Towns – A Tale of Two Countries, 1975-2013.” In Lessons from the British and French New Towns: Paradise Lost?, edited by D. Fée, B. Colenutt and S. Coady Schäbitz, 129-42. Bingley: Emerald, 2021. https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Lessons-from-the-British-and-French-New-Towns/?k=9781839094316
Ward, S. V. “Planning diffusion: agents, mechanisms, networks and theories.” In The Routledge Handbook of Planning History, edited by C. Hein, 76-90. New York/Abingdon, 2018. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Routledge-Handbook-Planning-History/dp/1138856983/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515413225&sr=8-1&keywords=Routledge-Handbook-of-Planning-History%2FHein ISBN 978-1-138-85698-1 (hbk) ISBN 978-1-375-71899-6 (ebk)
Ward, S. V. “Colin Buchanan’s American journey.” Town Planning Review 88, no. 2 (April 2017): 201-31. http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/tpr/88/2
Ward, S. V. The Peaceful Path: Building Garden Cities and New Towns. Hatfield: Hertfordshire Publications, 2016. https://www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/books-content/the-peaceful-path ISBN 978-1-909291-69-0 (paperback).
Ward, S. V. Planning the Twentieth-Century City: The Advanced Capitalist World. Chichester: Wiley, 2002. https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Planning+the+Twentieth+Century+City%3A+The+Advanced+Capitalist+World-p-9780471490982 ISBN 0-471-49098-9 (paperback)