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The Regional Plan Association
ASLA’s Landscape
Architect Medal of Excellence recognizes significant contributions
to landscape architecture policy, research, education, project planning,
and design. The body of work must have been maintained at a consistent
level of excellence for at least 10 years.
For more than 80 years, the Regional
Plan Association has been shaping transportation systems,
protecting open spaces, and promoting better community design for
the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut region’s continued growth.
RPA’s first plan in 1929 provided the blueprint for the transportation,
land use, and open spaces leading to the George Washington and Verrazano
Narrows Bridges, JFK Airport, the Merritt Parkway, the Long Island
State and Palisades Interstate Parks systems, and state parks along
the south shore of Long Island and the Hudson Highlands. RPA also
successfully pushed for New Jersey’s brownfields legislation
and through its leadership of the Civic
Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York, emphasized the need
to create environmentally sustainable architecture and landscape
design at the World Trade Center site.
Read the nomination letter from Alexander
F. Kurnicki, ASLA, and support letters from Nancy
Owens, ASLA, The
Hon. Richard N. Gottfried, Robert
Bzik, and Frederick
E. Steiner, FASLA.
RPA's redevelopment plan for the Far West Side of Midtown
Manhattan
Photo: RPA, 2004
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Radburn, New Jersey plan to create open space network
Photo: RPA, 1929
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Civic Alliance hosted the Listening to the City forum
in July 2002
Photo: Jacqueline Hemmerdinger,
2002
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Governors Island workshop participants
Photo: RPA, 2002
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RPA's New Jersey Mayors Institute
Photo: RPA, 2003 |
Public tour of Governor's Island, 2003
Photo: RPA, 2004 |
RPA co-chairs the Empire State Transportation
Alliance
Photo: RPA, 2004 |
RPA's Regional Assembly
Photo: RPA, 2005 |
Design for the Governors Island park workshop
Photo: RPA, 2004 |
"Density with Diversity": Plan for
lower Manhattan
Photo: RPA, 2002 |
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