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Release of Walking Home: the Life and Lessons of a City Builder [Published by Random House, Canada, 2011]. In Walking Home Ken Greenberg shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities of their renewal. From a youth spent in the boroughs of New York City and other great cities of the world, to his beginnings as an architect in Toronto, Ken has long recognized that cities at their best provide, places of community, culture and business that we can walk to, mass transit and a wealth of amenities that couldn't be supported without a city's density Walking Home is both Ken's story and a lesson in turning the world's urban spaces back into places that can give us not only a platform to face the challenges of the future, but also a place we can call, with pride and satisfaction, home.

 
   
 
 

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.

 
   
   


  

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