Dale Prize
2024 Dale Prize: Planning and Art
March 05, 2024
Art is an arena in which planning practice has a growing interest. Planners have been involved for several decades in institutionalizing support for public art and in linking public art projects with development and with community programming. The establishment of the Arts & Planning Division in the American Planning Association signaled a commitment by the field to persistent attention nurturing interactions among artists and planners. by the field to persistent attention nurturing interactions among artists and planners. Beyond public art alone, the Division embraces anyone working in “the intersection of arts, culture, and planning.” That intersection offers opportunities to engage more people, including many who have been historically marginalized, to become shapers of their own urban futures.
Read more2023 Dale Prize Environmental Justice: Planning Lessons from the Past and Present to Move Forward
February 28, 2023
The 2023 theme is Environmental Justice: Planning Lessons from the Past & Present to Move Forward. Environmental Justice focuses on the disproportionate impact of sources of pollution in racialized and working-class communities. After four decades, the Environmental Justice movement has achieved momentum in its work to challenge and undo theories and practices of racist governing bodies, agencies, planners and other actors that result in environmental harm to racialized and marginalized communities.
Read more2022 Dale Prize: Government’s Role in Enabling Markets to Provide Housing that Meets Critical Societal Needs
February 22, 2022
The 2022 theme is Government’s Role in Enabling Markets to Provide Housing that Meets Critical Societal Needs. Housing production in California and elsewhere has not met the demand for housing, leading to housing availability and affordability crises. There are many problems: housing supply, the type of units built, unhoused populations, the legacies of redlining and impacts on intergenerational wealth, continued bias in real estate and lending markets, gentrification and displacement, and job/housing/modal availability mismatches.
Read more2021 Dale Prize Planning In The Pandemic: Public Health and Social Justice
March 02, 2021
Because of the current pandemic, this year’s celebration will be completely online.
Read more2020 Dale Prize #WeAre!: Advancing Gender and Sexuality in Planning Practice
March 04, 2020
The 2020 theme is #WeAre!: Advancing Gender and Sexuality in Planning Practice.
Read more2019 Dale Prize From Blueprint to Resilience: Planning when Change is the Norm
March 20, 2019
The 2019 theme is From Blueprint to Resilience: Planning when Change is the Norm. Comprehensive planning assumed that planners could anticipate the future and discern goals around which a plan could be crafted.
Read more2018 Dale Prize Planning with Immigrants in Communities and Regions
February 07, 2018
The 2018 theme is Planning with Immigrants in Communities and Regions. Over 125 years ago, Jacob Riis published his class book, How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, which emphasized the deplorable working and living conditions of European immigrants and the poor in blighted, overcrowded and unsanitary cities.
Read more2017 Dale Prize Southern California Suburbs: Looking Backward and Looking Forward
February 01, 2017
The 2017 theme is Southern California Suburbs: Looking Backward and Looking Forward. The Department of Urban and Regional Planning (URP) at Cal Poly Pomona is marking the 50th anniversary of its Bachelor of Science degree.
Read more2016 Dale Prize Planning for Community Self Determination and Racial Justice
February 10, 2016
The 2016 theme is Planning for Community Self Determination and Racial Justice. From Ferguson to Baltimore, New York City to Los Angeles, the historic social and political disenfranchisement and unequal treatment of communities of color has led to civil unrest and uprisings.
Read more2015 Dale Prize Streets for Everyone: Advancing Active Transportation
February 04, 2015
Today's planners are challenged to make streets that support active transportation. The embrace requires herculean arms to reach around many concerns: human scale, sense of community, accessibility, linking modes of travel, and last-mile transportation.
Read more2014 Dale Prize We Are What We Eat: Food Systems and the Healthy City
February 04, 2014
Planners have become involved in establishing “healthy city” policies and programs, involving many facets of how urban residents relate to their food.
Read more2013 Dale Prize Restoring Main Street: Linking Historic Preservation and Economic Development
February 04, 2013
Many cities have underutilized historic commercial, industrial and residential districts that can become assets in an economic development strategy.
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