The Chester Rapkin Award for the Best Paper in the Journal of Planning Education and Research is awarded annually. All papers published in the Journal are automatically considered. Members of the award committee are appointed by the Editors of the Journal.

This award carries a cash grant supported by an endowment at the University of Illinois Foundation in Urbana. Persons wishing to contribute to this endowment may send checks, noting contribution to the Chester Rapkin Fund, payable to the University of Illinois Foundation, c/o Prof. Lewis Hopkins, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois, 111 Buell Hall MC619, Champaign, IL 61820.

The Award was founded for JPER of ACSP by the co-editors, Lew Hopkins and Gill-Chin Lim, in honor of Professor Rapkin at his retirement. As a distinguished educator, he mentored 70 doctoral and numerous master students at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Princeton. As a pioneering researcher, Professor Rapkin authored 15 books and monographs and more than 100 professional articles, plans and reports. He was the Executive Director of the White House task force that proposed the Model Cities Program under President Lindon B. Johnson. From 1969 to 1977 he served on the New York City Planning Commission under Mayors John Lindsay and Abraham Beame.

The Chester A. Rapkin Award Committee:

Mike Teitz, Chair
2007-2009
Public Policy Institute of California
500 Washington Street, Suite 600
San Francisco, California 94111
415-291-4440
teitz@ppic.org

Scott Campbell
2008-2010
University of Michigan
College of Architecture
Urban Planning
University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Blvd.
Ann Arbor MI 48109-2069
734-763-2077
734-763-2322 (F)
sdcamp@umich.edu

Heike Mayer
2009-2011
Virginia Tech
Urban Affairs and Planning
Alexandria Center
1021 Prince Street, Suite 200
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-706-8122
703-518-8009 (F)
heikem@vt.edu