Associate Professor Mark L. Gillem, PhD, AIA, AICP recently received a major design award from the American Planning Association's Federal Planning Division. His firm, The Urban Collaborative, LLC, prepared the Southwest Campus Area Development Plan for Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The jury recognized the plan as the Outstanding Area Development Plan at an award ceremony in Los Angeles in April 2012. The jury found that "This project combines the best concepts in sustainable design, collaborative practice, and form-based codes. The plan includes housing, a new town center, retail and office space, 20 acres of new parks, and a bus transit system to achieve the desired results of higher residential density and an integrated bus rapid transit system, which in turn, should help reduce driving and provide greater opportunities for walking and physical activity. The project’s emphasis on leveraging existing partnerships and conducting public design charrettes is a demonstration of how multiple points of view included in a design process may lead to worthwhile outcomes."