Jury
Chair (non-voting) and Professional Advisor. Sean Ruthen, MAIBC.
Allan Jacobs. Author, Urban Design and Planning Consultant
Allan Jacobs taught in the Department of City & Regional Planning at University of California, Berkeley from 1975 to 2001 and twice served as its Chair. Currently, he is a consultant in city planning and urban design with projects around the world, including ones in California, Oregon, and Brazil.
Prior to teaching at Berkeley, Professor Jacobs worked on planning projects in the City of Pittsburgh and for the Ford Foundation in Calcutta, India, and spent eight years as Director of the San Francisco Department of City Planning. Honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berkeley Citation, and the Kevin Lynch Award. His publications include The Boulevard Book (with Macdonald and Rofe), Great Streets, and Looking at Cities.
Patricia Patkau, MAIBC. Architect and Founding Partner, Patkau Architects
Patricia Patkau has shared design direction in Patkau Architects since the firm’s founding in 1978. She holds a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University. In addition to practice, she is a professor at the School of Architecture at the University of British Columbia where she has taught since the 1980s. She is a Fellow of the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada, an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and the Royal Institute of British Architects, a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art, and a Member of the Order of Canada.
Joe Hruda, MAIBC. Architect and Founding Partner, CIVITAS.
Joe Hruda, an alumnus of Harvard University and a University of Manitoba Gold Medalist, has over 40 years of award-winning design in planning new communities, urban redevelopment and mixed-use projects. His experience in various parts of the world helped Joe shape CIVITAS into the sensitive and successful firm it is today.
Tom Hutton. Professor, Centre for Human Settlements & School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC.
Dr. Tom Hutton is a leading researcher in urban and regional change among advanced and transitional societies. His works include: studies of creative industries and labour; the influence of space and built environment on the shaping of new industry formation; the role of the inner city in cultural development; processes and implications of transformative change in Canadian city-regions; and service industries, industrial restructuring, and urban transformations.
Rob Bennett. Executive Director, Portland Sustainability Initiative.
Rob Bennett is the founding Executive Director of the Portland Sustainability Institute. He has worked with the Clinton Climate Initiative as a policy manager, developing comprehensive residential pilot programs and providing technical assistance to cities throughout North America in the areas of climate change reductions and building- performance policy.
Rob previously worked for the City of Vancouver where he led the development of Vancouver’s comprehensive Green Building Strategy and facilitated the green building and infrastructure approaches for the sustainable community of Southeast False Creek.
The jury’s decision was final and binding on the sponsor and the organizing committee. Credit was given to the winners.
In addition to the jury’s selection, there were category winners chosen by the public through the People's Choice online voting (November 21-27, 2011).
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