Grady Clay Awards
Grady
Clay is an authority on urban design. He
formerly wrote for the Courier-Journa, edited Landscape
Architecture Quarterly, and authored many books and
articles on architecture, urban planning, and historic
preservation.
The Grady Clay Award is not made
annually. Instead,
it is made on occasions when either Grady or Center For
Neighborhoods board members chose to recognize individuals
who meet the criteria established by Grady when he was
first approached in February 1996 with the idea of creating
an honor in his name.
Grady Clay was the first recipient and thereafter he
endowed the award and it is now made in his honor.
THE GRADY CLAY AWARD was created
by the Community Design Center in 1996 to honor Grady
Clay, internationally-renowned urban writer and longtime
Louisville resident. The
first award was presented to Mr. Clay at the Community
Design Center’s 1996 annual meeting. At that
time, the criteria for subsequent awards was established
in consultation with Grady:
To the citizen whose public life and work emphasize
local and regional planning and design; and who has operated
at a national level while maintaining nourishing roots
within their home community.
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Grady Clay |
Award Recipients
- Jerry
Abramson
Mayor of the City of Louisville
from 1985-1998
- Patricia
and James Rouse
Builders
of the City of Columbia, Maryland
Co-founders of the
Enterprise
Foundation a national foundation dedicated to advocating
for federal and local policy in support of affordable
housing and community development.
- Jack
Trawick
20 years
as Executive Director of the Louisville Community Design
Center
- Bill
Dakan
University
of Louisville geographer responsible for mapping the
political boundaries of the 26 council districts that
comprise the merged City of Louisville and Jefferson
County government.
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Meme Sweet Runyon |
Meme
Sweets Runyon – 2004
Executive
Director of River Fields, Inc., an organization dedicated
to the conservation of the Ohio River corridor as it
extends through metropolitan Louisville.
- Susan
Rademacher - 2005
President
of the Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy, a non-governmental
organization established in 1990 to restore Louisville’s
legacy of municipal parks and parkways originally designed
by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
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