2013 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence
The 2013 medalists reflect great diversity and demonstrate that effective urban placemaking happens at all scales.
Inspiring Change: the 2015 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence includes detailed case studies and lessons learned about the winning projects including:
- Inspiration Kitchens—Garfield Park in Chicago, Illinois
A restaurant offering healthy and affordable meals and food service training
- Congo Street Initiative in Dallas, Texas
Community-stabilizing reconstruction of family-owned homes in collaboration with resident owners
- Louisville Waterfront Park in Louisville, Kentucky
A reclaimed waterfront park reconnecting the city with the river
- The Steel Yard in Providence, Rhode Island
Adaptive reuse creating an industrial arts campus and small business incubator
- Via Verde in Bronx, New York
An innovative model for healthy and sustainable low-income housing
Lessons Learned themes include:
- The importance of places that bring people together and improve lives
- Anchoring projects in place
- The increased role of landscape
- Leadership
- Sustainable development and environmental considerations
- Healthy living
- The scale of approach including the emergence of the do-it-yourself and “maker movement.”
Citation (Chicago): Shibley, Robert G., Richard Wener, Anne-Marie Lubenau, and Jay Farbstein.Inspiring Change: 2013 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence. Cambridge, MA: Bruner Foundation, 2014.