Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Rockefeller Foundation Announces Winners of 2016 Jane Jacobs Medal
The Rockefeller Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2016 Jane Jacobs Medal.
Awarded annually, the medal honors individuals whose work creates new ways of seeing and understanding cities, challenges traditional assumptions about urban life, creatively uses the built environment to make cities places of hope and expectation, and influences global understanding and application of Jane Jacobs' principles.
In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Jacobs' birth and the impact of her ideas on cities around the world, the award was open this year for the first time to international nominees...