Great Parks/Great Cities Awards: Profiles of Nominees

July 19, 2001 - The Urban Parks Institute at Project for Public Spaces received a number of strong nominations for its three new awards to recognize the role of urban parks in revitalizing North American cities. The Award-winners will be announced during the Institute's sixth annual conference on urban parks, Great Parks/Great Cities, which takes place in New York City July 28-31.

Great Park Place Award - for a major park or square in North America that that has added significantly to the social, economic and environmental health and well-being of that city.
(click here for the 7 nominees)

Great Community Place Award - for a smaller park that, although not necessarily well-known nationally, has become a nucleus of social activity and revitalization in its community or neighborhood. (click here for the 10 nominees)

Catalyst Award for Urban Park Leadership - for a person or organization that has successfully evolved a park or other public space to meet the needs of today's users, by involving the community, building stewardship and making a park the setting for diverse community activities. (click here for the 8 nominees)

More on the Great Parks/Great Cities Awards

1) Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, OR

2) Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY

3) Balboa Park, San Diego, CA

4) Bryant Park, New York, NY

5) Central Park, New York, NY

6) Boston Common & Public Gardens, Boston, MA

7) Main Beach Park and Heisler Park, Laguna Beach, CA

1) Dufferin Grove Park, Toronto, ON

2) Liz Christy Garden, New York, NY

3) Liberty Lands, Philadelphia, PA

4) Pinellas Trail, Largo, FL

5) Riverside Park - 96th Street Tennis Courts, New York, NY

6) Washington Square, San Francisco, CA

7) Hetch-Hetchy Greenway, Sunnyvale, CA

8) Turner Lake Park, Covington, GA

9) Central Park, Broken Arrow, OK

10) Greenwood Lakes Park, Lake Mary, FL

Catalyst Award

1) Friends of Recreation & Parks, San Francisco, CA

2) Charles Jordan, Director, Parks & Recreation, Portland, OR

3) Battery Park City Parks Conservancy and its Executive Director, Tessa Huxely, New York, NY

4) Lynden Miller, public garden designer

5) Mayor Richard Daley, Chicago, IL

6) Blaine Bonham, Executive Vice President, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia, PA

7) Prospect Park Alliance, Brooklyn, NY

8) Jutta Mason, founder, Friends of Dufferin Grove Park