The William H. Whyte Award

The William H. Whyte award recognizes those individuals that have exemplified and maintained the mission and ardor of William H. Whyte, New York City writer, anthropologist, urbanologist, and social critic, whose work provides a factual basis for achieving livability through empirical observations of the relationship of human beings to place.

Past recipients of this unique and special award include Fred Kent, President of Project for Public Spaces, whose research and analysis on great public spaces continues in the footsteps of William Whyte and acts as a guide for creating livable public spaces everywhere and Ronald Lee Fleming, Principal at the Townscape Institute, Urban Planner and Designer, Preservation Advocate, Environmental Educator and Critic, for his visionary discussions of visual literacy and place making in the American community.