Ladd Keith, Ph.D.

Tag: award

  • Won the APA-AZ Applied Research Award

    Sara Meerow and I after being presented with the award.

    Excited to share that Sara Meerow and I won the American Planning Association, Arizona Chapter’s Open Category (Applied Research) award for Planning for Urban Heat Resilience (APA PAS Report #600). Our report draws from our collaborative research on heat including literature reviews, a national survey, interviews, and planning case studies, and provides an overview of climate change and the urban heat island effect, the inequitable impacts of heat, and heat information sources. We provide an urban heat resilience planning framework for communities and outline numerous heat mitigation and management strategies.

    The report is available as a free download thanks to a grant from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

  • Urban Land Institute Award

    I’m honored to have received the Rising Star Award from the Urban Land Institute Advisory Services program! From ULI:

    Ladd Keith, PhD has participated in four ULI panels since 2015, most notably as Chair for both the Jacksonville, Florida panel in 2018 on transit and economic development and the urban waterfront resilience panel in Miami, Florida in 2019. Ladd was also a major contributor to ULI’s 10 Principles of Resilience publication and continues to add his expertise to a number of ULI reports.

    Photo by Laura Jensen.

    As a panelist, Ladd provides dual insight into municipal planning and resilience issues. As a panel Chair, his ability to facilitate the panel process, particularly with complex land use challenges, is a strength noted and appreciated by his fellow panelists. Ladd brings out the best in panelists and encourages each to provide their unique insight throughout the panel process. He continually keeps the broader goals of the panel in mind and is a calming presence even when long days during the panel week can ruffle any seasoned professional.

    The ULI Advisory Services Rising Star Award was created in 2015 as a tribute to newer volunteers who have provided extraordinary service on panels and demonstrated incredible enthusiasm for and commitment to the Advisory Services Panel Program.