The 2018 theme is Planning with Immigrants in Communities and Regions. Over 125 years ago, Jacob Riis published his class book, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, which emphasized the deplorable working and living conditions of...
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Planning with Immigrants in Communities and Regions
James Rojas
Practitioner Prize Winner
Anna Kim
Scholar Prize Wiiner
Southern California Suburbs: Looking Backward and Looking Forward
The 2017 theme is Southern California Suburbs: Looking Backward and Looking Forward. The Department of Urban and Regional Planning (URP) at Cal Poly Pomona is marking the 50th anniversary of its Bachelor of Science degree. URP was created to educate professional...
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Donald Waldie
Practitioner Prize Winner
Dowell Myers
Scholar Prize Wiiner
Planning for Community Self Determination and Racial Justice
The 2016 theme is Planning for Community Self Determination and Racial Justice. From Ferguson to Baltimore, New York City to Los Angeles, the historic social and political disenfranchisement and unequal treatment of communities of color has led to civil unrest and uprisings. New generations of...
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Hector Verdugo
Practitioner Prize Winner
Lisa K. Bates
Scholar Prize Wiiner
Streets for Everyone: Advancing Active Transportation
Today’s planners are challenged to make streets that support active transportation. The embrace requires herculean arms to reach around many concerns: human scale, sense of community, accessibility, linking modes of travel, and last-mile transportation. It requires consideration of the...
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Fred Dock
Practitioner Prize Winner
Jennifer Dill
Scholar Prize Wiiner
We Are What We Eat: Food Systems and the Healthy City
Planners have become involved in establishing “healthy city” policies and programs, involving many facets of how urban residents relate to their food. Planners’ professional appetites have been whetted: researchers and practitioners want to know how planning can help cities better accommodate...
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Heather Wooten
Practitioner Prize Winner
Samina Raja
Scholar Prize Wiiner
Restoring Main Street: Linking Historic Preservation and Economic Development
Many cities have underutilized historic commercial, industrial and residential districts that can become assets in an economic development strategy. While there are many success stories attesting to this, there are also examples where economic development has diminished historic resources. How...
Read MoreThe Future of California’s Communities and Regions in an Era of Resource Constraints and Climate Change
Challenges associated with resource constraints and climate change require planners to critically evaluate their assumptions about the future of California’s communities and regions. Some see a transformation toward a mixed-use, urban model where location advantages are paramount, while others...
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S. Gail Goldberg
Practitioner Prize Winner
Stephen Wheeler1
Scholar Prize Wiiner
Planning, Architecture, Landscape, Art: Collaborating in Practice and Education
How will Southern California respond to the pressures of growth while achieving sustainability and good community design? One part of the answer lies in collaborations between planning, landscape architecture, architecture and graphic design. Today’s challenges call for a coordinated approach...
Read MoreEcological Urban Design: Making Rules / Breaking Rules
The 2007 Dale Prize winners for the Ecological Urban Design: Making Rules/Breaking Rules theme are advancing an ecological approach to urban design, focusing on innovations, experiments, and best practices. “Making rules” refers the emergence of new visions, design concepts, and urban design...
Read MoreCrossing Boundaries: Fostering a Regional Approach to Environmental Planning
The 2006 Dale Prize winners for the “Crossing Boundaries: Fostering a Regional Approach to Environmental Planning” theme are environmental planners who are working to cross disciplinary and jurisdictional boundaries, solving environmental problems by integrating analytic environmental studies...
Read MoreVoices in Planning
The 2005 Dale Prize winners for the “Voices in Planning” theme are giving voice to underrepresented communities, ensuring that land use planning and decision-making practices are responsive to these new voices, and creating a civic culture of community engagement.
Linking Land Use and Transportation Planning
The 2004 Dale Prize winners for the “Linking Land Use and Transportation Planning” theme are reforming land use and transportation practice to support transportation, environment, and community development goals.