Since the publication of Beyond Zuccotti Park, many of its authors have been recognized for their achievements in the fields of urban planning and design, community development, architecture, globalization and space, and sociology.

Ron Shiffman, lead editor and contributor of BZP, is being honored with the 2012 Jane Jacobs Medal for Lifetime Leadership by the Rockefeller Foundation for his work as a “trailblazer in his development of the model for community development corporations.” He is also being awarded the 2013 Planning Pioneer honor by the American Planning Association. This prestigious award is presented to pioneers of the profession who have made personal and direct innovations in American planning and have significantly and positively redirected planning practice, education, or theory with long-term results.

Michael Pyatok, contributor to BZP, was recently honored with the 2013 Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture. Pyatok received the award in the category of making a significant contribution to the quality of public architecture while working in the private sector.

Michael Kimmelman and Saskia Sassen, both contributors to BZP, have been included in the Disruption Index, a Next City index of people who have changed cities.

Saskia Sassen was also included in Die Arkitektin‘s Top 10 Theoriticians of spatial theory.

We would like to congratulate all our authors on their wonderful achievements.