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Awards
This annual architecture and design award has been kicking for ten years now, and 2019 provides the perfect opportunity to review the decade that was the 2010s.
Curbed
Streetsblog USA is crowdsourcing feedback for its annual Streetsies awards for the nest and worst in transportation news.
Streetsblog USA
It's one of the biggest days of the entire year for the planning and planners who make great places happen.
American Planning Association
Celebrating the year's best from the landscape architecture profession.
American Society Of Landscape Architects
Fast Company’s second-annual World Changing Ideas Awards will recognize winners in 12 categories. There are now 240 finalists.
Fast Company
The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University will award $100,000 to a grand price winner for the Innovations in American Government Awards.
Harvard Kennedy School
Fast Company recently recognized the best ideas in social impact.
Fast Company
Critics Alexandra Lange and Mark Lamster hand out their annual awards for architecture and design, with welcome focus and studied opinions on what make great cities great.
Curbed
The American Institute of Architects recently announced the winners of the 2016 Housing Awards.
The Architect's Newspaper
The Curbed New York team takes a tour of "the good, the bad, and the ugly" in urban planning from 2015.
Curbed NY
The 2016 Gold Medal is considered a rebuttal to the Pritzker Prize, which neglected to acknowledge Denise Scott Brown when it awarded Robert Venturi in 1991.
Chicago Tribune
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 13th annual Smart Growth Achievement Awards recognize communities that lead the way in compact, walkable growth.
Better Cities & Towns
The Architectural Record recognizes five women for their contributions to the study and practice of architecture.
Architectural Record
The federal government surveyed the country to recognize the best (multi-modal) transportation planning projects.
Fast Lane (DOT blog)
A highlight of the APA's National Planning Conference every year—the presentation of the National Planning Excellence and Achievement Awards.
American Planning Association
Critics Alexandra Lange and Mark Lamster hand out their annual awards for architecture and design. Snark is on the menu, but the awards still provide a nice recap of the biggest design news from around the country (and some from around the world).
Design Observer
The ULI has granted its annual award for the best new open space to Klyde Warren Park, a freeway cap park in Dallas.
Urban Land Institute
From rancho barns to Howard Hughes's former aircraft factory, nine projects reflect the best in historic preservation in Greater Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Conservancy
Cincinnati’s Department of Planning and Buildings was awarded the grand prize for "Best Planning Tool or Process" at the Congress for the New Urbanism's national conference last week. The award is just the latest in a string of commendations.
UrbanCincy
Following on the well-publicized heals of its posthumous Gold Award honor for Julia Morgan, the American Institute of Architects recently announced its complete roster of 2014 Honor Awards.
The American Institute of Architects
