The 𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗣 awards Program at Siena was so special. In addition to the three main categories, 𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗣 was proud to announce “𝗦𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰”. For this special anniversary, year, and city, The Awards Program decided to have three more innovative and creative categories which celebrated the city uniqueness, its heritage and the legacy of the outstanding author and novelist Italo Calvino.

Award for Excellence (AfE)

The ISOCARP Award for Excellence (AfE) is recognizing outstanding projects and influential professional endeavors. It rewards plans in design phase as well as projects in progress or already implemented and is open to a wide range of professionals and institutions operating in the domain of urban and regional planning. Participants are invited to submit different tools used in planners’ daily practice: normative plans, strategic plans, urban projects, programs, policies, research works, software, smart tools facilitating planners, etc. This prestigious award is bestowed in two categories: Grand Award and Merit Award.

Jury Members

Dr. Pietro Elisei.

Dr. Dara Golubovic Matic.

Dr. Sabina Dimitriu.

Dr. Li Fan.

Prof. Ali A. Alraouf (A&P Program Director).

Grand Winner

Urban Renewal Planning and Implementation Demonstration of Chongyong Avenue in Beijing.

China Academy of Urban Planning & Design.

Kai Wang, Chuan Qian, Yong Zhou, Meng Xu, Haoran Ma, Shutong Sun and Changzheng Liang

Grand Winner

Conservation and Utilization Plan of Historic Buildings and Historic Districts in Anren Township.

China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute Corp. Ltd-

Ying Zou, Gang Liu, Chuijing Kong, Yuan Yuan, Dong An, Xiyu Wang, Xin Xu and Chengrun Yang

Merit Winner

The Strategic Plan for The Metropolitan City of Florence: From Conception to Operationality

Valeria Lingua

Merit Winner

Multi-objective, Multi-Dimensional, and Multi-Scale Urban Design for the Organic Regeneration of Ancient City of Suzhou

Urban Planning & Design Institute Co., Ltd of Southeast University

Jianqiang Yang, Jianguo Wang, Yang Chen, Min Wang, Zihan Yang, Mi Zhou, Yuchi Shen, Tianyang Ge, Kai Huo, Wei Jiang, Zhenwu Yu, Hongquan Xu, Chunlei Yao, Jun Wang, Siyi Gu, Jingyi Zhou, Yuhao He, Haoran Liu, Zunyue Wang, Zhilin Yu and Qiyao Xu

The Gerd Albers Award (GAA)

The Gerd Albers Award (GAA) is celebrating inspiring publications such as books and essays. It was established in 1999 in honor of Professor Gerd Albers, a co-founder and past president of ISOCARP, who placed a particular emphasis on the task of publishing as a means of elucidating both the current debate and practical achievements in the planning field. This reputable award is given for the high-quality academic publications written by ISOCARP members.

Jury Members

Prof. Sebnem Hoskara.

Dr. Ulrich Graute.

Dr. Dorota Kamrowska-Załuska.

Prof. Ali A. Alraouf (A&P Program Director).

Books Category

Winner

Architectural Exaptation. When Function follows Form.

Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, Alessandro Melis and Telmo Pievani

Special Mention

Streets for People, Pathways of change from India’s Smart Cities

Gargi Roy, Kunal Kumar, Aswathy DIlip, AV Venugopal, Kusha Goyal, Smritika Srinivasan, Rutvika Nivate and Rahul Kapoor

Papers Category

Winner

The nonlinear influence of land conveyance on urban carbon emissions: An interpretable ensemble learning- based approach

Tianren Yang, Renlu Qiao, Zhiqiang Wu, Qingrui Jiang, Xiaochang Liu, Shuo Gao and Li Xia

Special Mention

Driving Urban Digitalization through a National Mission– a multilevel Governance perspective of India’s data smart cities strategy

Tathagata Chatterji & Aravindan R Mukkai

The Student Award

The Student Award is designed to promote exceptional projects undertaken by students worldwide. The Student Award is addressed to a student or student-group with outstanding results (undergraduate-bachelor, graduate-master) in a related field to urban and regional planning.

Jury Members

Dr. Hope Magidimisha-Chipung          .

Dr. Guido Cimadomo.

Prof. Ali A. Alraouf (A&P Program Director).

Winner

HEAR THE CAMPUS —Sustainable campus soundscape design based on GIS multi-criteria evaluation.

Lyuzhi Ruan, Linbing Lyu and Yining Sun

Winner

NEW STORIES OF TRAIN STATIONS. KATOWICE-ZWARDOŃ -ŽILINA-RAJEC

Dominika Verešová

Special Mention

The other public space A historical reading of the place bellow the Paulo de Frontin overpass in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Bernardo Emmanuel

Aachen Water Conductor _Making Rainwater Performative

Mebrure Ezgi Ismar, Liyuan Ma, Zhiran Li and Jinyu Zhu

Win-win Formula: Make Balance Between Development and Carbon Emission

YUEYUE WU, MEIRUI ZHU and XIONGXIAO

𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀

A special session will be dedicated to showing video footages sent by members replying to the significance of documenting the spirit of the city; places, sounds, colors, and people.

Winner

Varanasi

Linxue Li, Yiqun Wang, Yang Liu, Yunxiang Shan, Jialiang Hu, Yongqian Jiang and Runer Ni

Special Mention

Ibadan Traditional City Cultural Heritage

Olusola Olufemi, Oluwasayo Olatunde, Benedict Ayoola, Muyideen Aborisade, Abayomi Olaniran, Folakemi Ayomo and Olaitan Adeniyi

(𝗜𝗻)𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱

The theme of the Competition: What is the (In)visible city? Share in one paragraph your perception of the invisible city. Enrich the text with a key photo from your city depicting the essence of your interpretation.

Winner

Seen, 60 years ago

Isabel Raad

Winner

Reflection of the Heart

Chloé-Désirée BEUGNIES

Special Mention

Smyrna-9

Esra Kut Görgün

Johannesburg: A Tapestry of Contrasts, Memories, and Transformation

Pilisiwe Zamafaku Masiba

𝗦𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱

An exhibition of sketches depicting the character and the personality of a city, particularly heritage areas and historical places.

Winner

On Transferring Topology: From Rome To Paris

Yiqun Wang

Special Mention

Venice. Identity and history

Antonio Bocca