Improving land-use-based urbanism through award-winning planning practice and scholarship: a North American case study

Abstract Metropolises in the Sunbelt region of USA are need sensitive land-use-based urbanism comprised more compact development, sustainable transportation, efficient infrastructure, low-carbon energy, and greenway environmental planning. Sustainable urbanity can be partially accomplished via co-creative planning pedagogies, which turn lead to place-and evidence-based practice scholarship. However, student work is often underappreciated because academia does not create visibility that it requires. Planning studios other applied disciplines invaluable opportunities conduct loco research produce professional or near-professional documents. Town-gown collaborative projects offer many rewards. This article showcases how various undergraduate graduate offered at Arizona State University resulted state-level awards. It stated students ought go beyond delivery documents their instructors clients also seek recognition from associations. More encompassing award-winning sure receive further only professionals but community large. The methodology mostly qualitative policy evaluation plan making processes. A set lessons learned implications for those who wish venture out this type academic collaborations, namely instructors, students, stakeholders, university administrators, elected officials, planners. key finding strategies discussed paper encourage land preservation arid cities above all increase quality urban life desert environments.