Philadelphia’s Combined Sewer Overflow Long Term Control Plan Update seeks to meet regulations of the National CSO Control Policy and US EPA through a comprehensive watershed-based approach. The advantage of this broad approach is that it identifies multiple solutions (land-water-infrastructure based) that are cost effective measures. These solutions are localized site specific improvements to problems caused by the impacts of CSO and non-CSO sources of pollution on water quality.

Project Region, the process to create a 30-year transportation plan for the 10-county region of southwestern Pennsylvania, is a document created by some 3,000 people. The APA award winner culminated its planning process with a web-based regional town meeting that allowed around 600 attendees at 11 different simultaneous meetings throughout the area to interact. Led by the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission, the cooperative effort resulted in "Our Region's Plan," — a vision that covers 7,112 square miles and is home to 2.6 million people.

The Lower Italian Market Revitalization project focuses on a crucial commercial corridor center of South Philadelphia that have been dominated by vacant storefronts. In an effort to reverse the proliferation of vacant storefronts, crime, trash and blight in the Lower Italian Market area, a group of architects, designers, planners, and policy makers formed the Planning & Design Committee of the Passyunk Square Civic Association (PSCA). The Plan addresses green elements, public art, and contemporary concepts that specifically apply to this dense urban area. Interest among residents about PSCA's revitalization plan was so high that the community formed a new committee to implement its recommendations.