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Contributor to What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs [Edited by Stephen A. Goldsmith and Lynne Elizabeth, New Village Press and The Center for the Living City, 2010.] What We See celebrates the life and work of urbanist Jane Jacobs through the writing of renowned community organizers, planners, activists, journalists, scholars, economists, social scientists, politicians and other public figures who contemporize and build on her ideas about community-based planning, community-building and urban economies.

2010 American Institute of Architects Thomas Jefferson Award These Awards recognize design excellence in public and government. The 2010 Thomas Jefferson Awards honor three singularly unique practitioners who have all had a vital and positive influence on architecture's interaction with the public at large and have all exemplified the architecture profession's regenerative responsibility to make the everyday lives of the public better and earned these accolades in accordance with three award categories. Ken Greenberg, Assoc. AIA was awarded in the category of a public official or other individual who by their role of advocacy have furthered the public's awareness and/or appreciation of design excellence.

Citation: Throughout his entire career, Ken Greenberg has fearlessly been an advocate for the civic life of some of the most hobbled and challenged cities in North America. As a city planner and urban planning design consultant with his own firm Greenberg Consultants, Ken Greenberg has designed numerous influential master plans for cities like Philadelphia, Hartford, Washington, DC, and Detroit, becoming one of North America's most eminent thinkers on the Post-Industrial city, and earning the 2010 Thomas Jefferson award in the process. He's renowned for his ability to engage the public and ground his designs in the unique zeitgeist of each place he works for to repair its urban fabric. An acolyte of urbanist and writer Jane Jacobs, Greenberg understands that cities are too complex and dynamic to be solved by final, definitive design end points, and that the best urban design interventions allow for and encourage this kind of spontaneous evolution. Greenberg studied international relations at Columbia University and architecture at Columbia and at the University of Toronto. He co-founded the Toronto-based planning and urban design firm Urban Strategies in 1987. Greenberg Consultants was founded in 2001. Greenberg has also created urban master plans for projects in Toronto, Boston, Cambridge, Mass., and the Twin Cities. Developer Lyme Properties worked with Greenberg on the Kendall Square project in Cambridge, and managing director David Clem wrote in a recommendation letter of Greenberg's "gift for language. He is able to communicate the importance of urban design and superior architecture, not only to the professional world, but to the residents of neighborhoods impacted by growth, change, construction noise, and traffic." "Ken is one of the most skilled and respected urban designers practicing in the world today," wrote Kairos Shen, Boston's chief city planner, in a letter of recommendation. "His greatest strength, however, is his ability to build consensus on even the most controversial of projects."

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