GREAT PLACES AWARDS 2009 - Call for Entries
Celebrating excellent places and how people inhabit them
Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm, EDRA, the Environmental Design Research Association, in cooperation with Metropolis magazine announce the twelfth annual Great Places Awards.
Unique in the ever-expanding universe of award programs, our concern is for good places and how people inhabit them.  We seek entries of exemplary work, inviting participation from a range of design and research disciplines, recognizing projects whose significance extends beyond any one profession or field. Projects should emphasize a link between research and practice, demonstrating how an understanding of human interaction with place can inspire design.

Awards recognize
Design: Excellence in human environments, completed projects.
Planning: Proposals for future design, use, or management of a place.
Research: Projects investigating relationships between design, human behavior, culture, and experience.
Book: Recently published books advancing the critical understanding of place and design of exceptional environments.
Jurors
DavidLake, Lake/Flato Architects
Elizabeth MacDonald, City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
Rahul Mehrotra, Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lawrence Speck, Page Sutherland Page
William Sullivan, Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
For information visit
Environmental Design Research Association, www.edra.org
Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm, www.places-journal.org
Deadline: February 9, 2009