Through its National Planning Awards program, the American Planning Association recognizes the role cutting-edge planning achievements and outstanding individual contributions play in creating communities of lasting value. Excellence Awards are granted to outstanding initiatives by planning agencies, planning teams or firms, community groups, and local authorities. www.planning.org
2012 Winners
Daniel Burnham Award for a Comprehensive Plan
Vision 2020: New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
New York, NY
HUD Secretary’s Opportunity and Empowerment Award
Robert R. Taylor Homes/NorthSide Revitalization
Wilmington, NC
Best Practice
Cool Planning: A Handbook on Local Strategies to Slow Climate Change
Oregon
Grassroots Initiative
Yorktown 2015: A Blueprint for Survival and Sustainability
Philadelphia, PA
Implementation
Contra Costa Centre Transit Village
Contra Costa, CA
Public Outreach
Fast Forward Mobile Outreach Bus
Tulsa, OK
Innovation in Sustaining Places
Re-imagining a More Sustainable Cleveland
Cleveland, OH
Best Practices in Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Planning
Florida Statewide Regional Evacuation Study Program
Florida
Planning Firm
Sasaki Associates
Watertown, MA
Landmark Award
Bennett Plan of the City of Pasadena (1925)
Pasadena, CA
Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture (1962)
US General Services Administration
Pierre L’Efant International Planning Award
Strategic Master Plan I
Petra Region, Jordan
Hard-Won Victory
Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard Phase II EIR
San Francisco, CA
Advancing Diversity & Social Change in Honor of Paul Davidoff
Leonardo Vazquez
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
Planning Advocate
Gov. Martin O’Malley: Reinvigorating Smart Growth
Maryland
Source: American Planning Association