(Awarded in odd-numbered years)
Deadline EXTENDED for Nominations! -- New
deadline: June 30, 2009
The Paul Davidoff award is presented by the Association of Collegiate
Schools of Planning (ACSP) to honor the memory of a revered and respected
activist academic in the field of modern city planning.
Paul Davidoff was
an unyielding force for justice and equity in planning. He viewed planning
as a process to address a wide range of societal problems and to improve
conditions for all people. He challenged academics and professionals alike
to find ways to promote participatory planning and positive social change;
to overcome poverty and racism and to reduce disparities in society. Before
his untimely death, he implemented major contributions to the field as an
educator, practitioner and intellectual. His influence in planning extends
to this day. His work constitutes a watershed in the theory and practice of
community planning.
The Paul Davidoff
award was established in 1981 by ACSP and is one of the most prestigious
honors in the academic planning field.
Purpose: The Paul Davidoff award recognizes an
outstanding book publication promoting participatory planning and positive
social change, opposing poverty and racism as factors in society and seeking
ways to reduce disparities between rich and poor; white and black; men and
women.
The award is granted biennially to the publication
which most reflects Davidoff’s commitments and values.
Eligibility:*
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The nominated work must be a book. If the nominated
publication is an edited book, it will be considered if it is a coherent
whole. [other edited books, articles and reports are not eligible.]
2.
The nominated work may have single or multiple authors.
3.
The nominated book must have been published within five (5) years of
the date of the award.
4. Previously nominated books may be re-nominated and will be considered
anew.
5. The nominated book
must relate to the practice or theory of planning or provide critical
background concepts or research important to the profession of planning.
6. The nominated book
must reflect Paul Davidoff’s commitments and values in a manner consistent
with the high quality ff all his endeavors.
*These Guidelines Were
Reviewed in Winter 2009.
Who may nominate:
Nominations may come
from any individual or organization including publishers, academics, public
or private organizations, agencies or institutions. Agencies are limited to
three nominations; faculty and students may be involved in the
identification of nominations.
The nomination process:
Each nomination must
submit five copies of the book and a letter of nomination which includes:
1. The authors’ name,
publication title, place and date.
2. A brief abstract
of contents.
3. A summary
statement of the consistency of the submission with the award purposes and
the quality of the contribution.
4. The name and
contact information (including email address).
5. No more than three
(3) letters of support of the nominated book (optional).
Nominations may be
emailed but the nomination package must be mailed by June 30, 2009 to:
Dr. Marcia Marker Feld
Executive Director Emerita
University of Rhode Island
5 Hamlin Road
Newton
Centre, MA 02459
mfeld@uri.edu
617.965.0166
The 2009 PAUL DAVIDOFF AWARD COMMITTEE
Barry Checkaway
Marcia Marker Feld
University of Michigan University of Rhode Island
313.763.2322 401.277.5235
barrych@umich.edu
mfeld@uri.edu
Pierre Clavel
Lawrence J. Vale
Cornell University MIT
607 255 4331 617.253.0561
Pc29@cornell.edu LJVale@MIT.edu
Victoria Beard
University of California, Irvine
949.824.8566
vbeard@uci.edu
Previous Paul
Davidoff Award recipients:
2007 Xavier de
Sousa Brigg, The
Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing
Choice in
Metropolitan America, Washington, DC, Brookings Institute,
2005
2007
Charles Connerly, The Most Segregated City in America: City Planning and
Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980, University of Virginia Press
2005.
2007
Jason Corburn, Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental
Health Justice, MIT Pre, 2005
2007
Randolph T. Hester, Design for Ecological Democracy, MIT Pre, 2006
2005 Leonie Sandercock,
Cosmopolis II:(University
of British Columbia) Mongrel
Cities in
the 21st Century,
London: Continuum
2005 Daniel Immergluck,
Credit to The Community: Community
Reinvestment and Fair Lending Policy in the United States.
NY:
M.E. Sharp,
Inc.
2005 Lawrence Vale,
(MIT) Reclaiming Public Housing: A Half Century of
Struggle
in Three Public Neighborhoods
Cambridge: Harvard
University
Press
2003 Gerald E. Frug
(Harvard Law School) City Making: Building Communities Without Building
Walls
Princeton: University Press
2001 Elise M. Bright(
University of Texas at Arlington) Reviving
America’s Forgotten
Neighborhoods: An Investigation of the Inner Cities
1999:
June Manning Thomas (Michigan State University), Redevelopment
and Race: Planning a Finer City in
Post War Detroit.
1997:
Philip Nyden, Anne Figert, Mark Shibley, and Darryl Burrows,(Loyola-Chicago)
Building Community: Social Science in Action.
1995:
Rob Mier (University of
Illinois, Chicago), Social Justice
in Economic Development.
1993:
Edward Blakely (University of Southern California) and William
Goldsmith (Cornell University), Separate Societies: Poverty and
Inequality in US Cities.
1991:
Norman Krumholz (Cleveland State University) and John Forester
(Cornell University), Making Equity
Planning Work.
1989:
Lisa Peattie (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Planning:
Rethinking Ciudad Guayana.
1987:
Peter Marris (University of California, Los Angeles),
Meaning and Action.
1985:
Pierre Clavel (Cornell University),
The Progressive City.
1981:
Chester Hartman (Institute for Policy Studies), The Transformation
of San Francisco.
1990:
Dolores Hayden (University of California, Los Angeles),
Redesigning the American Dream.
WE WELCOME YOUR NOMINATIONS
