The Congress for the New Urbanism, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization advocating mixed-use neighborhoods with pedestrian-friendly buildings, selected 15 projects as exemplars of New Urbanism. The annual awards program recognizes excellence at all scales of design, each with a different approach to improving a city, town, or region. Winning projects range from a new block in Berlin to a regional plan for the San Francisco Bay area and a freeway demolition in Milwaukee.

The awards jury included:
• Chair Daniel Solomon, FAIA, principal, Solomon E.T.C., a WRT Company
• Larry Beasley, Vancouver’s director of current planning and co-director of planning
• Ellen Dunham-Jones, director, Georgia Institute of Technology architecture program
• Robert Fishman, professor of architecture and urban planning, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
• Peter Katz, consultant and author of The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
• Hans Stimmann, director of urban development, Senate Department of Urban Development, Berlin.
• John Torti, FAIA, principal, Torti Gallas and Partners

CNU designated its award-winning projects in three categories.

The region
UrbanRiver Visions, Massachusetts, submitted by Goody, Clancy & Associates

Sarasota 2050, Sarasota, Fla., submitted by Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopen Rinehart Inc.

Smart Growth Strategy/Regional Livability Footprint Project, San Francisco Bay Area, submitted by Design Community & Environment and the Association of Bay Area Governments

The neighborhood, district, and corridor
Doña Ana Plaza Revitalization, Doña Ana, N.M., submitted by Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists in conjunction with the University of New Mexico Design and Planning Assistance Center

I’on, Mount Pleasant, S.C., submitted by Civitas Inc.

East Baltimore Comprehensive Physical Redevelopment Plan, submitted by Urban Design Associates

Glenwood Park, Atlanta, submitted by Tunnell-Spangler-Walsh

Memphis Ballpark Neighborhood, submitted by Looney Ricks Kiss Architects Inc.

The Commons, Denver, submitted by Design Workshop Inc.

Park East Redevelopment Plan, Milwaukee, submitted by the Planning and Design Institute Inc.

The block, street, and building
Soleil Court, San Diego, submitted by Kelley-Markham Architecture and Planning

Johannesviertel, Berlin, submitted by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company

15th and Pearl Mixed Use, Boulder, Colo., submitted by RNL Design

The Corner at Eastern Market, Washington, D.C., submitted by Stanton Development Group

Del Mar Station Transit Village, Pasadena, Calif., submitted by Moule & Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists

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