2026 Charter Awards Jury

  • Expanding options for a car-oriented suburban area
    <strong>Village of Providence</strong> <em>Huntsville, AL</em>
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  • From parking lot to urban tour-de-force
    <strong>UCLA Weyburn</strong>&nbsp;<em>Los Angeles, California</em>
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  • Jazz Market New Orleans Audience Seating
    Jazz Market New Orleans Audience Seating
    Trumpeting a cultural revival
    <strong>Peoples Health New Orleans Jazz Market</strong>&nbsp; <em>New Orleans, Louisiana</em>
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  • A mixed-use center for town and gown
    <strong>Storrs Center</strong> <em>Mansfield, CT</em>
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  • Southside
    Ten acres that transformed a city #thisiscnu
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    From former warehouse to "vertical village"
    <strong>Crosstown Concourse</strong>&nbsp; <em>Memphis, Tennessee</em>
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  • Mercado District | Tucson, Arizona
    A timeless place from the ground up. #thisiscnu
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  • Historic arcade houses young professionals
    <strong>Microlofts at The Arcade Providence</strong>&nbsp;<em>Providence, Rhode Island</em>
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  • A unique building becomes a hub for historic neighborhoods
    <strong>Ponce City Market</strong> <em>Atlanta, GA</em>
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Eric Kronberg, Jury Chair

Founder, Kronberg Urbanists + Architects 

Eric Kronberg is a zoning whisperer. He specializes in balancing and blending the often competing needs of urban design, architecture, and development in a potent cocktail for better places. He specializes in breaking down and demystifying regulations to find ways to make great projects possible while helping others navigate the redevelopment maze. He uses his skills for the force of good as a principal at Kronberg Urbanists + Architects (KUA), leading the firm’s skilled practitioners to help our development partners create better places for all. His seven years teaching for the Incremental Development Alliance motivated him to co-found Inc Codes, an incremental code reform company helping mid-sized cities take the next step towards legalizing better places.  All this work is directed towards making healthy neighborhoods -- places that are vibrant, lasting, AND inclusive. He recently joined the board of the Seaside Institute to help the leading think tank for the New Urbanism strategically focus on how to integrate attainable housing into our great, walkable places.

Joanna Lombard, AIA, LEED AP

ACSA Distinguished Professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture

Joanna Lombard, AIA, LEED AP, is ACSA Distinguished Professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture with a secondary appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Miller School of Medicine, and Faculty Ombudsperson for the Coral Gables and
Rosenstiel Campuses. She is a founding member of the UM Built-Environment Behavior & Health Research Group with funded projects in the area of neighborhood design and health, currently studying the impacts of streetscape-greening and park access. She is author and co-author of articles, books, and book chapters, co-leader of one of the eleven university-based teams selected as charter members of the American Institute of Architects Design & Health Research Consortium, and a member of the University of Miami U-LINK teams exploring a Hyperlocal Approach to Climate Adaptation, Climate Resilience for the Spinal Cord Injury community, and Mental Health, Greenness and Heat. Professionally she is a member of the national research and design collective, Practice Landscape. She works on strategies for healthy communities, consulting with healthcare systems to develop new and retrofit existing campuses, and on numerous projects with DPZ CoDesign on in the areas of education, institution, and healthcare campus planning and community design.

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