The Form-Based Codes Institute welcomes submissions for the Driehaus Form-Based Codes Award now through March 31, 2011. Form-based codes shape the public realm, implementing by law a pedestrian-scale urbanism.

Since 2007, the Driehaus Form-Based Codes Award has recognized outstanding codes that create superior urban environments. Form-based codes are the powerful tools required to achieve a community vision based on time-tested forms of urbanism.

Submissions are judged according to how they have or will foster built results consistent with a master plan, and by how they advance the art of form-based code writing. Codes must have been adopted into law by a unit of local government. Submission of codes that show built results and offer "lessons learned" are encouraged. Form-based codes will have these characteristics:

• Regulatory (not merely advisory)
• A focus on urban form (rather than land use)
• For specific locations at the neighborhood, town, city or regional scale
• Produce walkable, identifiable neighborhoods that provide for daily needs

A distinguished jury of professional urbanists will review all submitted codes. The jury:

Kaizer Rangwala, AICP, CEcD, CNU-A (Jury Chair)
Principal, Rangwala Associates
Ventura, CA

Peter Richards, FAIA
Director, Deicke Richards
Queensland, Australia

Ana Gelabert-Sanchez, AICP
Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Cambridge, MA

Geoffrey Ferrell
Principal, Ferrell Madden Lewis
Washington, DC

George J. Proakis, AICP
Director of Planning
City of Somerville, MA

Stefanos Polyzoides
Principal, Moule & Polyzoides Architects
Pasadena, CA

To obtain detailed instructions, entry and submission forms, please visit the FBCI website, http://www.formbasedcodes.org/call-submissions

Enclose the entry form with completed submission materials (7 copies) and mail to:

Form-Based Codes Institute
Attn:Alan Mammoser, FBCI Program Director
333 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 510
Chicago, IL 60601

Submissions must be received by FBCI no later than 5:00 p.m. Central Time on Thursday, March 31st, 2011. Questions may be submitted to Alan Mammoser, FBCI Program Director at 312.731.4701 or [email protected]