Awards Go to Faculty Members In School of Architecture and Planning

By Lois Baker

Release Date: October 7, 2004 This content is archived.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Three faculty members in the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning have been honored with major awards from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) and the Upstate New York Chapter of the American Planning Association.

G. William Page of Canandaigua, professor of urban and regional planning, and Daniel B. Hess of Buffalo, assistant professor of urban and regional planning, will receive national awards from ACSP on Oct. 23 at the association's national conference in Portland, Ore. 

Page will receive the 2004 Jay Chatterjee Award for Distinguished Service in recognition of his 16-year commitment to the establishment, operation and management of PLANET, the association's international listserv; his service as chair and a member of several ACSP committees, and for the many site visits he has performed as a member of the association's Planning Accreditation Board.

Hess will share ACSP's 2004 Chester Rapkin Prize for the best article in the Journal of Planning Education and Research with his co-authors Jeffrey R. Brown, assistant professor at Florida State University, and Donald Shoup, professor at UCLA.

Their article, "Fare-Free Public Transit at Universities: An Evaluation," has implications for universities nationwide. Hess has been working with several area universities to explore the potential of fare-free student transit for the Buffalo area.

Robert Shibley, professor of architecture, and his team in the School's Urban Design Project, have received the 2004 Award for Comprehensive Planning from the Upstate New York Chapter of the American Planning Association.

They received the award for "Queen City Hub: A Regional Action Plan for Downtown Buffalo," which was developed by the school for the City of Buffalo. The plan previously received the 2004 Outstanding Planning Project for Comprehensive Planning from the Western New York Section of the APA. The award will be presented Oct. 28 at the chapter's annual conference in Rochester.