Eighteen projects that represent the best in New Urbanist practice will be honored this June as the recipients of the Congress for the New Urbanism's (CNU) second annual Charter Awards. A jury selected the winners from a pool of more than 200 applicants representing 170 firms.

CNU's jury, which was chaired by Jonathan Barnett, FAIA, professor of city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania, evaluated these plans and projects on how they respond to and integrate with the environment, and how they "improve the human experience of blocks, neighborhoods, and regions." Winners represent all scales of development and planning, and all are infill projects.

Along with Barnett, the jury featured Elinor Bacon, president and CEO, National Capital Revitalization Corporation; Bonnie Fisher, principal, ROMA Design Group; Ken Greenberg, AIA, principal, Greenberg Consultants Ltd.; Alex Krieger, FAIA, principal, Chan Krieger and Associates, and chair of the Urban Design Program at Harvard University; John Norquist, mayor of Milwaukee; and Richard Rosen, president of the Urban Land Institute.

The winners were:

The region
• State of Maryland's Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation Initiative,
Annapolis, Md., submitted by the Maryland Office of Smart Growth
• The Confluence Master Plan: A Conservation, Heritage, and Recreation Corridor,
St. Louis, submitted by H3 Studio

The metropolis
• Development Plan for Sectors A & D, Beirut, Lebanon , submitted by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

The city
• Initiative for a 20/20 Vision for Concord, N.H., submitted by Goody, Clancy & Associates

The neighborhood
• Holly Park Redevelopment—Phase I, Seattle, submitted by Weinstein Copeland Architects
• Stateway Gardens Redevelopment Plan, Chicago, submitted by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP

The district
• Addison Circle, Addison, Tex., submitted by RTKL Associates
• Hayward Downtown Plan & Cannery Area, Hayward, Calif., submitted by Solomon E.T.C. Architecture and Urban Design
• University of Washington Tacoma Master Plan, Tacoma, Wash., submitted by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners

The corridor
• Riverview HOPE VI Housing, Cleveland, submitted by Goody, Clancy & Associates

The block
• Bethesda Row, Bethesda, Md., Federal Realty Investment Trust
• Millennium Place, Boston submitted by Gary Edward Handel + Associates Architects
• Northeastern University West Campus Residence Halls, Boston, submitted by William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc.

The street
• Howard University—Le Droit Park Revitalization Initiative, Washington, D.C., submitted by Sorg and Associates

The building
• 101 San Fernando, San Jose, Calif., submitted by Solomon E. T. C. Architecture and Urban Design
• Chelsea Grande, New York City, submitted by Richard Cook & Associates Architects
• Seven Fountains, West Hollywood, Calif., submitted by Moule & Polyzoides Architects & Urbanists
• Timothy Dwight Elementary School Addition, New Haven, submitted by Michael Haverland Architect/Yale Urban Design Workshop.

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