Calgary development wins CNU Charter Award
The Congress for the New Urbanism gave a 2016 CNU Charter Award to Currie Barracks, a new LEED-certified, 160-acre development in a former Canadian forces base in Calgary, Alberta. The plan also won a second award, the 2016 Award of Planning Excellence from the Alberta Professional Planners Institute. Nelson\Nygaard served on a team with Urban …
Bridgeport Main Street Revitalization Wins Award
A revitalization project in Bridgeport, a town in Mono County, California, received the 2015 “Highway as Main Street,” Caltrans Excellence in Transportation Award. Nelson\Nygaard, as part of a larger team, redesigned the five-lane highway that was this rural town’s main street. The team worked closely with the community and Caltrans, and the new street was …
Honolulu Complete Streets Design Manual honored
The Honolulu Complete Streets Implementation Study won the 2015 APA Hawai‘i Annual Chapter Award, Transportation Planning Category from the American Planning Association. Nelson\Nygaard worked on a team to help the City and County of Honolulu develop policy and design tools to enact complete streets. Nelson\Nygaard led ten walk audits at sites throughout Honolulu to teach …
Ann Arbor Downtown Street Design Manual honored
The Ann Arbor Downtown Street Design Manual has won two awards. It received the 2015 Planning Excellence Award for Best Practice, Michigan Chapter of the American Planning Association, and the 2015 Planning & Analysis Award from the Michigan American Society of Landscape Architects. Nelson\Nygaard worked with a team of consultants and Ann Arbor to create …
Glendale Mobility Study earns multiple APA awards, SCAG honor
The Glendale Downtown Mobility Study has received a 2015 Award of Excellence for Implementation, Large Jurisdiction, from the American Planning Association, Los Angeles. The original plan received the 2007 President’s Excellence Award for Visionary Planning for Mobility, Livability, Prosperity, and Sustainability from the Southern California Association of Governments. Also in 2007, the American Planning Association …
Broadway Dress Rehearsal Wins Sustainability Award
The Southern California Association of Governments gave a 2015 Sustainability Award to Broadway Dress Rehearsal, a test of what Broadway Street in Los Angeles could be. The City of Los Angeles imagined a better streetscape, with space for plazas, and to take steps toward meeting the city’s vision zero goal for pedestrian deaths. Nelson\Nygaard provided …