The 2007 winners engage our most challenging urban issues including how to stimulate investment in the places we all know and love the best, our neighborhoods.
Building Sustainable Neighborhoods: the 2007 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence includes detailed case studies and lessons learned about the winning projects including:
- The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania
A cultural center and family district that promotes creativity and collaboration
- Artists for Humanity EpiCenter in Boston, Massachusetts
A center promoting youth arts and entrepreneurship
- Columbus Circle and Public Plaza in New York, New York
A redesigned historic traffic circle and transit hub featuring a new public plaza
- Crossroads Project and Marsupial Bridge in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A pedestrian infrastructure project linking communities and reclaiming “leftover” public space
- High Point Redevelopment Project in Seattle, Washington
Reinvention of outdated low-income housing into a new, sustainable, mixed-income community
- LA Design Center in Los Angeles, California
Showrooms, gallery, and event space promoting a local furniture and design district
Lessons Learned themes include:
- (Re)connecting Neighborhoods
- Sustainable Development
- New Approaches to the Public/Private/Nonprofit Partnerships
- Rebuilding Excellence in Post-Industrial Cities