UB Urban Design Project Wins Another Planning Award for "The Olmsted City"

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Upstate Chapter of the American Planning Association will present its 2009 Comprehensive Planning Award to "The Olmsted City -- The Buffalo Olmsted Park System: Plan for the 21st Century" produced by the University at Buffalo Urban Design Project (UDP).

The UDP is a research center in the UB School of Architecture and Planning directed by Robert Shibley, professor of urban and regional planning. The award will be presented Oct. 1 at the chapter's annual meeting in Albany.

"The Olmsted City," one of several multiple award-winning plans for the City of Buffalo developed by the UDC, was developed at the behest of the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy and has received four previous award citations.

It received the 2009 Excellence in Historic Preservation Award from the Preservation League of New York State and the 2009 Comprehensive Planning Award from the Western New York Section of the American Planning Association.

It was one of four plans included in Buffalo's Comprehensive Plan, which received the prestigious 2009 Charter Award from The Congress of New Urbanism and, in 2008, "The Olmsted City" received the Planning and Analysis Honor Award from the New York Upstate Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architecture.

"The Olmsted City -- The Buffalo Olmsted Park System: Plan for the 21st Century" can be found at the UDP Web site: http://urbandesignproject.ap.buffalo.edu/projects/olmsted/Plan.html