ULI Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development
Honoring Visionaries Who Inspire Great Places
The nomination deadline for the 2024 Laureate has closed.
2023 Laureate Mayor Anne Hidalgo of Paris, France announced on December 14, 2023
Learn more about the jury’s selection of the 2023 laureate and her visionary accomplishments in the press release.
2024 Schedule
March-May 2024 – Jury selects and notifies Laureate
Summer/Fall 2024 – ULI announces Laureate
*Due to the number of nominations we receive, we do not notify nominators whose nominees are not selected. The jury may reconsider any nominee in a future year.
About the Prize
The ULI Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development is the most prestigious and respected award in the land use planning and development community worldwide. It encourages developers, redevelopment planners, and community leaders to think more deeply about how urban development affects our quality of life and helps to build the spirit of community and of neighborhood. It encourages innovation and creativity yet returns to the core principles of quality, beauty, and permanence.
ULI awards the 100,000 USD prize annually. The Nichols family endowed the Prize in the year 2000 by a gift to the ULI Foundation from the Miller Nichols Living Trust and the Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation.
The Prize will be given to a living person who, individually or as a representative of his or her organization, has made a most distinguished contribution to community building globally, who has established visionary standards of excellence in the land use and development field, and whose commitment to creating the highest quality built environment had led to the betterment of our society.
The Prize will spotlight individuals and organizations that have been on the cutting edge, employing innovative processes, techniques, strategies, and insights to encourage and to achieve the highest quality in development practices and policies at the global, national, or local levels. ULI will announce the 2023 Laureate in the fall. The Prize will reward accomplishments that honor diversity of land use, design, mobility, lifestyle, population, culture, and race; and it will reflect an awareness of changing technologies and their impact on a sustainable future for our communities.
Nominate the Next Laureate
Nominees are not limited to a specific discipline and may include developers, public officials, educators, authors, journalists, researchers, artists, urban planners, technologists, activists, architects, or landscape architects, among others, from around the globe. The prize cannot be awarded posthumously. Nominees do not need to be a ULI member. See the How to Nominate page for more information.