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Dearborn and John C. Stallmeyer * 2011 Not Given * 2010 Jack Nasar, Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, & Tom Fisher * 2009 Susan M. Goltsman & Daniel Iacofano * 2008 Not Given * 2007 Wolfgang F. E. Preiser& Elaine Ostroff * 2006 Not Given * 2005 Kathryn Anthony * 2004 Galen Cranz * 2003 Not Given * 2002 Not Given * 2001 Not Given * 2000 Frances Kuo & William Sullivan * 1999 Joostuan Andel * 1998 Craig Zimring * 1997 Oscar Newman, Institute for Community Design * 1996 Gerald Davis & Francois Szigeti, Joan Harvey Canadian Hospital Evaluation Project, Ottawa * 1995 Elaine Ostroff Adaptive Environments, Boston * 1994 Roger Hart, Children’s Environment Research Group * 1993 Lynda Simmons, Phipps House * 1992 Journal of Architectural and Planning Research * 1991 Serafin Mercado Domenech, (Sepcial Award of Distinguished Achievement) * 1990 William H. Whyte, The Street Life Project, Gary Winkel (first editor) & Robert Bechtel (current editor) * 1989 Environment and Behavior/Sage Publications * 1988 Not Given * 1987 Robin Moore, The Environment Yard * 1986 Willo Pequegnat, Executive Office of EDRA **Past Career Award Recipients** * 2016 Lynn Paxson, PhD * 2015 Craig Zimring * 2014 Lynda H. Schneekloth, Roberta M. Feldman and Sue Weidemann * 2013 Richard Wener * 2012 Robert Marans * 2011 Galen Cranz * 2010 Karen Franck * 2009 Sherry Ahrentzen * 2008 Jay Farbstein * 2007 Robert Gifford * 2006 Sanjoy Mazumdar * 2006 Jack Nasar * 2005 Gerald Weisman * 2004 Jacqueline Vischer * 2003 Robert B. Riley * 2002 Harold Proshansky (posthumously) * 2002 Walter Moleski * 2001 Arza Churchman * 2000 David Stea * 1999 Wolfgang Preiser * 1998 John Zeisel * 1997 Gary Evans * 1996 Randolph T. Hester * 1995 Sandra Howell * 1994 William Ittelson * 1993 Robert Bechtel * 1992 Rachel & Stephen Kaplan * 1991 Daniel Stokols * 1990 Leanne Rivlin * 1989 Robert Sommer * 1988 Joachim Wohlwil * 1987 M. Powell Lawton * 1986 Edward T. Hall * 1985 Robert Gutman * 1984 Clare Cooper Marcus * 1983 Donald Appleyard * 1982 Irwin Altman * 1981 Roger Barker * 1980 Amos Rapoport * 1979 Michael Brill * 1978 Envirnmental Psychology Program, CUNY * 1977 Sidney Cohn * 1977 Henry Sanoff **Past Great Places Award Winners** **2015 Awardees** * **[Community Matters: Service-learning in Engaged Design and Planning](http://www.edra.org/sites/default/files/Bose.pdf)**, New York, NY:Routledge/Earthscan * **[Roosevelt Plaza Pop-Up Park](http://www.edra.org/sites/default/files/Group%20Melvin.pdf)**, Group Melvin Design, Sikora Wells Appel, City of Camden, Cooper’s Ferry Partnership * **[Upper Lawrenceville Community Visioning Targeted Development Strategy](http://www.edra.org/sites/default/files/awards/evolvEA.pdf)**, evolveEA * **[Daniels Spectrum - Regent Park](http://www.edra.org/sites/default/files/awards/Diamond%20Schmitt%20Architects.pdf)**, Toronto, Diamond Schmitt Architects * **[Race & the Control of Public Parks](http://www.edra.org/sites/default/files/awards/bcWORKSHOP.pdf)**, buildingcommunityWORKSHOP * **[Fayetteville 2030: Food City Scenario](http://www.edra.org/sites/default/files/awards/University%20of%20Arkansas.pdf)**, University of Arkansas Community Design Center **2014 Awardees** * **The Masaro Village Project,**GA Collaborative * [**Open House**](/page/Open_House), Matthew Mazzotta, Coleman Center for the Arts * **Sugar Beach**, Claude Cormier et Associés * **Pike Pine Renaissance**, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol * **The Street**, Vikas Mehta **2013 Awardees** * **1315 Peachtree Street,**  Perkins + Will * **Dublin Grounds of Remembrance,**PLANT Architect Inc. * **Unified Ground: National Mall Competition, Union Square (Washington, D.C.),**  Gustafson Guthrie Nichol * **Northerly Island Park Framework Plan,**  SmithGroupJJR, Inc./Studio Gang Architects * **Pop Up City: Temporary Use Strategies for a Shrinking City,**Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, Kent State University * **WaterFire Providence,**  WaterFire Providence - a non-profit arts organization * ***Urban Composition*,**  Mark C. Childs **2012 Awardees** * [**Escuela Ecologica Saludable Initiative: *Parque Primaria Pitagoras***](http://edra.org/content/2012-place-design-winner), Benjamin Spencer, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington * [**Urban Strategies in Historic Beijing**](http://edra.org/content/2012-place-planning-winner), Irma Ramirez, California State Polytechnic University Pomona School of Environmental Design * [**Owe’neh Bupingeh Preservation Project**](http://edra.org/content/2012-place-research-winner), Shawn Evans, AIA, Atkin Olshin Schade Architects * [***Insurgent Public Space:****Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of** **Contemporary Cities***](http://edra.org/content/2012-place-book-winner), Jeffrey Hou **2011 Awardees** * **The Steel Yard,**  Klopfer Martin Design Group * **Steelbridge Skatepark Development Plan,**City of Portland/Portland Parks/DAO Architecture * **Measured Change: Tracking Transformations on Bayou Lafourche**, LSU Coastal Sustainability Studio * ***Cities for People,*** Jan Gehl **2010 Awardees** * Garbage to Gardens, Guatemala City,  Guatemala Associate Professor Daniel Winterbottom, Univ. of Washington Dept. of Landscape Architecture with students of the Guatemala design/build studios * Visioning Rail Transit in Northwest Arkansas 2030 Univ. of Arkansas,  Community Design Center and School of Architecture; Washington Univ., St. Louis, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts * Maasvlakte 2100: A Long Term Design Strategy for the Port Lands of Rotterdam Open Systems,  Pierre Belanger, Miho Mazereeuw * Battery Park City Streetscapes & Security  Rogers Marvel Arch., James Carpenter Des. Assoc., Ducibella Venter & Santore, Sam Schwartz Co. LLC, Weidlinger Assoc., Fisher Marantz Stone, Robert Silman Assoc., Langan Eng. & Env. Ser., U.S. Army Eng. Res. & Dev. Ctr. * CITY SINK: Carbon Storage Strategies for Urban Landscape,  Denise Hoffman Brandt * *Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Learning from Seattle's Urban Community Gardens,*Jeffrey Hou, Julie M. Johnson and Laura J. Lawson * SOAK: Mumbai in an Estuary, Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha **2009 Awardees** * **The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet,**Craig Dykers, Tarald Lundevall, Kjetil Traedal Thorsen * **Wing Luke Asian Museum,**  Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects * **Vision 2030: West Dallas Gateway, Strategic Framework Initiative,**Univ. of Texas, Dallas Urban Laboratory * **Guangming Sustainable Park,**CJ Lim, Studio 8 Architects * **Resuscitating the Fez River: Procedures to Create New Public Space in the Medina of Fez.Takako,**Tajima, Aziza Chaouni, Bureau E.A.S.T. * **Design for Health: University of Minnesota, Cornell University, University of Colorado,**Dr. Ann Forsyth, Dr. Kevin Krizek, Dr. Carissa Schively Slotterback, Amanda Johnson, Aly Pennucci, Michael Huber. * ***Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs and Reports from the Field,*** Anne Whiston Spirn **2008 Awardees** * **Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA**  WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism * **Ballard Library and Neighborhood Service Center,** Bohlin Cywinski Jackson * **RIVER + CITY + LIFE: A Guide to Renewing Toronto’s Lower Don Lands,** Stoss Landscape Urbanism * **The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State**, Suisman Urban Design, with RAND Corporation * **Historic Chicago Greystone Initiative**, City Design Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Architecture and the Arts * **The Landscape Totems: Speculations on Growth and Decay,** Kristi M. Dykema * ***America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire,*** Mark L. Gillem **2007 Awardees** * The Ferry Building, SMWM (Architect); Baldauf Catton von Eckartsberg Architects (Retail Architect); Page & Turnbull (Preservation Architect); Owner: Port of San Francisco; Developers: Equity Office, Wilson Meany Sullivan LLC, Primus Infrastructure LLC * **The House of Dance and Feathers Mardi Gras Indian Museum**, Project Locus: Patrick Rhodes, Executive Director, Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, LA * **Intertwined Human + Environmental Ecologies: The Money Point Sustainable Revitalization Plan,**  Crisman+Petrus Architects; University of Virginia School of Architecture; UVA Institute for Environmental Negotiation; The Elizabeth River Project. * **Los Angeles River Urban Wildlife Refuge: A Vision for Parks, Habitat, and Urban Runoff,**Community Development by Design * **Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime**, Kenneth L. Helphand * **Living Memorials National Research: 9/11 and the Public Landscape**, Erika Svendsen and Lindsay Campbell, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station **Past Service Award Recipients** * 2016 Cherif Amor, PhD, EDRA, IDEC, IIDA * 2012 Nana Kirk * 2011 Janice Bissell * 2010 Janet Crum Singer * 2009 Daniel Mittleman * 2008 Not Given * 2007 Not Given * 2006 David Seamon * 2005 School of Social Ecology - University of California, Irvine and Lynne M. Westphal * 2004 Peter Hecht * 2003 Henry Sanoff * 2002 Irwin Altman * 2001 Todd Bressi & Places Magazine * 2000 Not Given * 1999 Not Given * 1998 Not Given * 1997 Wayne Ruga, Center for Health Design * 1996 Kathleen Demsky * 1995 Richard Wener, Environment and Behavior computer list * 1994 Stephan Marc Klein, Project Director: “What is Socially Responsible Design?” * 1993 Karin Tetlow, Editor, Interiors * 1992 Rudy Bruner Awards for Urban Excellence * 1991 Progressive Architecture Design Research Awards Program **Past Student Award Recipients** * **2015 Research - 1st Place** Gourab Kar & Abir Mullick *Cornell University* * **2015 Research - 2nd Place** William J. Whitfeld *University of Surrey* * **2015 Design - 1st Place** Olivia Asuncion *University of Oregon* * **2015 Design - 2nd Place** Abhinandan Bera, et al *Pennsylvania State University* * **2011 Research** 1st Daniela Casanello Frisius *The University of Melbourne* * **2009 Design** 1st Nicholas Turner *Kansas State University* 2nd Meredith Vines *Louisiana Tech University* * **2007 Research** Kelly Williamson *Florida State University* * **2006 Research** 1st Sudeshna Chatterjee *North Carolina State University* 2nd Sophia Meger * **2005 Research** Ann Reardon *Eastern Michigan University* * **2004 Design** Jayita Sahni * **2004 Research** Gabor Nagy Misun Hur * **2004 Research Grant** Sarah McCans * **2003 Research** Nana Kirk * **2002 Research** Lynne Dearborn-Karan Mirele Goldsmith * **2002 Design** Nicola Baker, Carol Huang, Chia-Pei Liu, Matthew Goodrich, Deborah Lorenzo, Kumiko Kitagawa, and Kate Russell. Ayako Harada, Jan Saitterthwaite, and Jade Takashima * **1999 Research** Mohamed Cherif Amor * **1998 Research** Sandra Horne *Goldsmith’s University, London* * **1998 Design** Judith Campbell, Catherine Combs, Kyung-Mi Kim, Kyung-shin Kim, Lanlana Limlomwongse, Deanna M. Landry, Seaneen O'Hanlon, Linda Pastula, Karen Singh, Koren Stanislaus, and ChingYu *Pratt Institute* * **1994 Research** 1st Gail Finkel 2nd Herb Childress 3rd Alan H. Foster * **1993 Design** Shalini Goyal Cynthia Kaufman-Sherwyn Melissa Neel Loree Sandler * **1993 Research** 1st David Schnee 2nd Maggie Calkins 3rd Pat Lowry * **1992 Research** 1st Kathleen Miller-Stumpf *University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee* 2nd Cheryl Parker *University of California, Berkeley* 3rd Siyu Liu *State University of New York at Buffalo* * **1992 Honorable Mentions** Patricia Taylor Frances Kuo * **1992 Design** Michael L. Goorevich *University of Cincinnati* Jan Huebner-Moths, Joseph P. Fleber, Kerry L. Paruleski, and Patrick Rebholtz *University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee* * **1989 Research** 1st Jeffrey A. Lackney University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Margaret Harvey *University of Wisconsin, Madison* 3rd Nana Kirk *University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign* | [Close](#) Sign In [![](/global_graphics/facebook-icon.png) Login with Facebook](https://ws.yourmembership.com/Ams/SocialOAuth/facebook?Continue=%2fAms%2fFinalizeLogin%2ffacebook%3fReturnUrl%3dhttps%253a%252f%252fwww.edra.org%252fsocial%252fconnect.aspx%26ClientID%3d92088%26UseReturnUrl%3dTrue)[![](/global_graphics/linkedin-icon.png) Login with LinkedIn](https://ws.yourmembership.com/Ams/SocialOAuth/linkedin?Continue=%2fAms%2fFinalizeLogin%2flinkedin%3fReturnUrl%3dhttps%253a%252f%252fwww.edra.org%252fsocial%252fconnect.aspx%26ClientID%3d92088%26UseReturnUrl%3dTrue) OR Remember Me ![](/global_graphics/icons/securesubmit.png "Secured with SSL encryption.") 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