Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award
ORIGIN
The Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award is named in honor of the late social activist and author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities., Jane Jacobs.
PURPOSE
The annual Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award recognizes an outstanding book, published in English, which exhibits excellence in addressing issues of urban communication. The book award brings with it a $500 prize.
PROCEDURES OF SUBMISSION
All entries must be published between January 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025. To nominate a book, please send a short letter of nomination or self-nomination (in the form of an email attachment) to the Jane Jacobs Book Award review committee, at jacobsaward2025@gmail.com by July 15, 2025.. The letter of nomination should describe the book and explain how it addresses issues central to the field of urban communication. For more information on the field of urban communication, and to determine if your nomination fits the award call, please review the Urban Communication Foundation’s mission statement (at https://urbancomm.org/about-ucf-1).
REVIEW PROCESS
We will review all nomination letters after the July 15, 2025 deadline and choose a short-list of finalists. Only this short-list of finalists (or their publishers) will be asked to send four copies of the book to the award committee (in August).
2024
No Award
2023
George Villanueva is the recipient of the 2023 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award for Promoting Urban Social Justice through Engaged Communication Scholarship: Reimaging Place (Routledge, 2022).
2022
E. James West is a recipient of the 2022 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award for A House for the Struggle: The Black Press & the Built Environment in Chicago.
Hatim El-Hibr is a recipient of the 2022 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award for Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure.
2021
Susan A. Phillips is the 2021 Award Recipient for The City Beneath: A Century of Los Angeles Graffiti (2019, Yale University Press).
2020
Benjamin Stokes is the 2020 Award Recipient for Locally Played: Real World Games for Stronger Places and Communities (2020, The MIT Press).
