The American Planning Association has announced their 2012 National Planning Awards. These awards are the APA showing recognition to the most outstanding people and places that create communities where people want to live and grow.
Here is a quick roundup of the award winners.
National Planning Excellence Award Winners
The Daniel Burnham Award for a Comprehensive Plan
Vision 2020: New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan (New York, NY)
The HUD Secretary’s Opportunity and Empowerment Award
Robert R. Taylor Homes / NorthSide Revitalization (Wilmington, North Carolina)
National Excellence Planning Award for a Grassroots Initiative
Yorktown 2015: A Blueprint for Survival and Sustainability (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
National Planning Excellence Award for Implementation
Contra Costa Centre Transit Village (California)
National Planning Excellence Award for Public Outreach
Fast Forward Mobile Outreach Bus (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
National Planning Excellence Award for Innovation in Sustaining Places
Re-imagining a More Sustainable Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio)
The Contra Costa Centre Transit Village took the 2012 National Planning Excellence Award for Implementation from the APA
Best Practices in Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Planning
Florida Statewide Regional Evacuation Study Program (Florida)
National Planning Excellence Award for a Planning Firm
Sasaki Associates, Inc. (Watertown, Massachusetts)
National Planning Landmark Award
The Bennett Plan of the City of Pasadena (1925) (Pasadena, California)
National Planning Achievement Awards
The Pierre L’Enfant International Planning Award
Strategic Master Plan I Petra Region, Jordan (Petra Region, Jordan)
National Planning Achievement Award for a Hard-Won Victory
Candlestick Point-Hunters Point Shipyard Phase II EIR (California)
Advancing Diversity & Social Change in Honor of Paul Davidoff
Leonardo Vazquez (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
The National Planning Excellence Award for Planning Advocate
Governor Martin O’Malley: Reinvigorating Smart Growth in Maryland (Maryland)
For more information on these great projects and award winners, head on over to the official APA website.