The Rockefeller Foundation has announced the creation of a $200,000 award, called the Jane Jacobs Medal, to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to urban design, specifically in New York City. The medal will be given annually to two people: a lifetime contribution and another at the start of a promising career. Nominate here. | nysun
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For more on Jacobs, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Urban Design in the 1950s:
Peter L. Laurence, "The Death and Life of Urban Design: Jane Jacobs, The Rockefeller Foundation and the New Research in Urbanism, 1955–1965," Journal of Urban Design 11 (June 2006), 145-72.
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=1357-4809&volume=11&issue=2&spage=145
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