1987 Achievement Award- Downtown Vancouver Association (Legacies Program)
1987 Special Achievement Award- International Downtown Association, Washington D.C. (Legacies Program)
1988 National Honour Award- Canadian Institute of Planners (Legacies Program)
1990 Award for Planning Excellence- Planning Institute of British Columbia (False Creek North Plan)
1991 Award of Merit- Planning Institute of British Columbia (Coal Harbour Policy Plan)
1992 Award of Merit- Planning Institute of British Columbia (Central Area Plan)
1992 “Golden Nugget” Award- Pacific Coast Builders Conference, San Francisco, Calif. (False Creek North Plan)
1992 Excellence on the Waterfront Honour Award- Waterfront Centre Society, Washington, D.C. (Coal Harbour Plan)
1993 Award for Planning Excellence- Planning Institute of British Columbia (Downtown South Plan/Implementation)
1994 Award for Contribution to Local Government- Social Planning & Research Council of B.C. & Forum for Planning Action
(Victory Square Planning Program)
1994 “Georgie” – Silver Award- Canadian Home Builders’ Association of B.C. (Government Cooperation for Concord Pacific Place)
1995 National Honour Award for Intergovernmental Cooperation- Canadian Institute of Planners (Central Waterfront Port
Lands Policy Statement)
1996 Award of Merit- Planning Institute of British Columbia (Downtown Public Realm Improvements)
1996 Award of Planning Excellence- Planning Institute of British Columbia (False Creek North Policy Broadsheets and Official Development Plan)
1996 “World’s 100 Best Planning- United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, Nairobi, Kenya – for
Practices” Habitat II Summit, Istanbul, Turkey (Waterfront Planning Process and Plans)
1998 Award for Planning Excellence-Planning Institute of British Columbia (Vancouver Skyline Study)
1999 National Honour Award- Canadian Institute of Planners (Historic Preservation Planning in Xi’an, China)
2000 National Honour Award- Canadian Institute of Planners (Southeast False Creek Environmentally Sustainable Community – Policy Statement)
2003 Excellence on the Waterfront Honour Award- Waterfront Centre Society, Washington, DC (Waterfront Promenade)
2003 Awards for Planning Excellence- Canadian Institute of Planners and Planning Institute of British Columbia (Downtown Transportation Plan)
2003 “Advocate for Architecture” Medal- Royal Architectural Institute of Canada
2004 Award of Excellence- Planning Institute of British Columbia (Urban Design Booklet -Vol.2: “Vancouver’s New Neighbourhoods”)
2004 Excellence on the Waterfront Honour Award- Waterfront Centre Society, Washington, D.C. (False Creek North Neighbourhoods)
2004 Special Achievement Award for Planning- International Downtown Association, Washington, D.C.
(“Living First” Strategy Downtown)
2005 Plan Canada Feature Article of the Year- Canadian Institute of Planners (for “Moving Forward in Canadian Communities:
Soliloquy of an Urbanist”)
2005 Appreciation Award- Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association
2006 Leadership in Healthy Public Policy Award- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
2006 Award of Excellence- Congress for the New Urbanism, Chicago, Ill. (“Living First” Strategy Downtown)
2006 Honorary Landscape Architect- Canadian Society of Landscape Architects
2007 Distinguished Alumni Award- Simon Fraser University Alumni Association
2007 Honorary Doctorate Degree- Simon Fraser University
2007 Kevin Lynch Prize- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2008 Building Named for Him- “The Beasley”, Downtown Vancouver
2008 Award of Excellence- Planning Institute of British Columbia (for “Plan Abu Dhabi 2030”)
2009 Award of Excellence- International Society of City and Regional Planners, The Hague, Nl. (for “Plan Al Ain 2030”)
2010 Award of Excellence-Publications- Canadian Institute of Planning (for “Experiential Planning – A Practitioner’s Account of Vancouver’s Success” – with Jill Grant)
2011 Honorary Doctorate Degree- Dalhousie University
2011 CLIDE Award- North Central Texas Council of Governments (for Dallas CityDesign Studio’s West Dallas Urban Structure Plan and Guidelines)
2011 Winner and Peoples’ Choice Award- Vancouver Viaducts Removal Competition (City of Vancouver)
2012 Design Leadership Award- International Interior Designers Association, Interior Designers Canada and Interior Designers Institute of British Columbia
2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal- Governor General of Canada
2012 Award of Excellence-Urban Design- Canadian Institute of Planners (for Dallas CityDesign Studio’s West Dallas Urban Structure Plan and Guidelines)
2012 Competition Winner- Moscow Capital Expansion Competition (City of Moscow)
2016 Dean’s Medal of Distinction- University of British Columbia, Faculty of Applied Sciences
2016 President’s Award- Canadian Institute of Planners (for role in Future Forward Task Force)
2020 Honorary Faculty Member- Vancouver Island University, Master of Community Planning Program
