Planning Pioneer Award

This award recognizes the contributions of individuals or planning organizations or firms that have made personal and direct innovations in American planning that have significantly and positively redirected planning practice, education, or theory with long-term results.

Eligibility:

Open to APA members and nonmembers; planning firms, planning organizations and agencies may also be nominated. A nominated individual’s contributions must date back at least 25 years from the nomination deadline. Individuals may be nominated posthumously. Planning firms, organizations or agencies must have been established for more than 10 years.

Criteria:

• Historic Impact on Planning — Describe the nomination’s innovations or new models that directly influenced the future of American planning and explain how these developments significantly and positively redirected planning practice, education, theory, or organization.
• Individual’s National Significance (Answer if nominating an individual) — Describe the national impacts or effects of the nominated individual’s planning contributions.
• Planning Firm or Organization’s National Influence (Answer if nominating a planning firm, agency or organization) — Detail the firm or organization’s ongoing positive influence on the direction and professional advancement of planning. Examples may include: collaborating among other design disciplines, innovations in practice, or advancing the art and science of planning. How has the firm or organization advanced previously pioneering work using new methodologies, and/or influenced the use of technology in planning applications. Identify the number of planners on staff.