The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), the journal Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm, and Metropolis Magazine expand a twelve-year effort to advance a critical understanding of place, the public realm, and the design and creation of human environments through joint sponsorship of THE GREAT PLACES AWARDS, formerly the EDRA/Places Awards.

The newly named program will continue to recognize professional and scholarly excellence in design, planning, research, and academic publication, and to raise awareness and appreciation of the design and maintenance of the public realm. With its interdisciplinary focus, concern for human factors in the design of the built environment, and commitment to promoting links between design research and practice, THE GREAT PLACES AWARDS is the only program of its kind to represent the full breadth of environmental design and related social science activity.

The Call for Entries for the 2009 cycle of THE GREAT PLACES AWARDS runs through February 9, 2009. The jury will be held Feb. 28 to March 1 at the University of Texas, Austin.
The 2009 jury consists of David Lake, 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; and William Sullivan, Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For more information, visit http://www.edra.org or http://www.places-journal.org. Please note that the Call for Entries will be posted on both sites after October 1, 2008.

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