People That Matter

Jane Jacobs Prize Recipients

The Jane Jacobs Prize is funded by the Avana Capital Corporation and includes an annual stipend of $3,000 for three years, to be used by the recipients in any way they choose. The recipients are also invited to meet together to discuss their experiences and knowledge of what makes this city work.

The Jane Jacobs Prize was announced in 1997 at the end of a five-day international celebration called Jane Jacobs: Ideas that Matter. Hundreds of the world's most prominent thinkers and community leaders attended the Toronto event to exchange ideas and celebrate Jacobs' work. The prize was created to build on the spirit of that gathering.

In 2014, Spacing magazine took over the administration of the award.

Jane Jacobs Prize winners (picture taken in 2010)

Updates on previous winners: Dan Yashinsky Uzma Shakir Rollo Myers Mary Lou Morgan Catherine Nasmith Steve Munro Jutta Mason

Prize Winners

2016	2016
Leslie Chudnovsky	Luke Anderson

2015	2015	2014	2014
Sureya Ibrahim	Julie Beddoes and Cynthia Wilkey	Graeme Stewart	Sabina Ali

2010	2010	2009	2008
Catherine Nasmith	Spacing Magazine	Derek Ballantyne	Nick Saul

2006	2005	2004
Roberto Martella	Steve Munro	John van Nostrand

2003	2003	2002	2002
Margaret Zeidler	Uzma Shakir	Amanuel Melles	Mel Greif

2001	2001	2000	2000
Jutta Mason	David Walsh	Rollo Myers	Iria Vieira (deceased)

1999	1999
Mary Lou Morgan	Dan Yashinsky