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ABSTRACT This paper introduces Planning Perspectives readers to the Global Urban History Project (GUHP), a new initiative to support sustained conversations in the field of global urban history that has important implications for international planning history. It situates the project in the context of the long and fruitful relationship between planning history and urban history and argues that the transnational turns each field has taken require even more cross-fertilization. It also lays out the ways GUHP defines global urban history, the concerns that led to the foundation of the Project, and the Project’s hopes for relationship with other professional associations in planning and urban history.