Allan B. Jacobs, urban planner and professor in the department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley, was selected as the winner of the 1999 Kevin Lynch Award, presented at MIT’s "Imaging the City" symposium. The award is presented annually to honor outstanding contributions to making places that promote and capture a generous relationship between an urban place and people who use it. The committee’s citation state that: "As director of the City Planning Commission of San Francisco, Allan Jacobs pioneered the integration of urban design and local government planning, producing a plan that has given San Francisco some of its best places and, two decades later, still stands as a model of its kind. His book, Making City Planning Work, is a telling and accessible accounty of what it takes to change American Cities, published in 1985. His most recent book, Great Streets, is a text that has become widely revered and is used universally by students and practitioners. It has had an extraordinary influence on city design providing lucid examples and realizable principles about the making of public space." The committee concluded that: "Allan Jacob’s rich blend of research, teaching, and practice, his humanity, and his dedication to public purposes, is very much in the spirit of the ideals and spirit which Kevin Lynch fostered.