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This workshop for PhD candidates in planning history, hosted at the Netherlands University Institute for Art History (NIKI) in Florence, in collaboration with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the International Planning History Society and the journal Planning Perspectives, focuses on developing writing skills and how to publish academic papers. Organised by Gabriel Schwake (VU Amsterdam), Stephen Ramos (University of Georgia, US) and Filippo De Pieri (Politecnico di Torino), the workshop provides participants with expert guidance on how to structure and write academic articles. With interactive sessions and individual feedback, the workshop aims to support emerging scholars in their quest to become successful and published academics in planning history and to train future leaders of the International Planning History Society.

Gabriel Schwake is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Interested in the influences of finance, nationalism, conflicts, and identities on the process of spatial production, Gabriel’s current research project explores the relationship between debt and urban development. During his time at the NIKI, Gabriel will study the inception of Florentine debt-reliant urbanisation and the ways in which it influenced the development of the city.