Emily Talen won this year’s award for best

Emily Talen won this year’s award for best article in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, for her analysis, “New Urbanism, Social Equity, and the Challenge of Post-Katrina Rebuilding in Mississippi.” Talen, a planning professor at Arizona State University, examined plans that new urbanists produced for 11 damaged coastal communities. The award committee said the article makes a compelling case for why New Urbanists must go beyond physical design and become “vocal advocates and enablers” for social equity goals, such as neighborhoods that are socially diverse. See jpe.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/3/277.