Best Practices

10 Great Planning Ideas from Abroad (2025)

Boomforest | France (multiple locations)

Co-Haty Social Housing for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) during the War | Ukraine (multiple locations)

Manzanas de Cuidado (Blocks of Care) | Bogota, Colombia

Sponge City Program | Wuhan, China

Ahmedabad Heat Action Plan | Ahmedabad, India

Superblocks (Superilla) Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain

Utrecht Bicycle Parking Garage (world's largest) | Utrecht, The Netherlands

Correcting a Historic Planning Mistake | Utrecht, The Netherlands

Parvat Manthan - Manifestation of Clean and Sustainable Hill States | Indian Himalayan Range

Baan Mankong | Bangkok, Thailand

Selection Committee

Andrew Gast-Bray, PhD, AICP, CNU

Troy Hayes, BSc, MSc, MRTPI, AICP

Ben Hitchings, FAICP, CZO (Project Lead)

Ipshita Karmakar, B.Arch, MCP

Tetyana Samiliv, MCRP

Prof. Adam Lovelady, JD

Krishna Shrivastava, AICP

Prof. Emer. Bruce Stiftel, Ph.D., FAICP

Jing Zhang, AICP