Special Awards for Northern California Future City Competition 2021

City that best exemplifies a great place to grow up

and grow old. Incorporates age-friendly planning and
design throughout the city, such as walkable streets,
1 Best Age-Friendly City
housing and transportation options accessible to
people of all ages and abilities, and opportunities to
participate in community life.
Teams should develop a clear statement of the use
and benefits of aviation and/or space technology in
Best Use of Aerospace
2 their projects. Special consideration will be given to
Technology in a Future City
aviation and/or space technologies used in the
displays
Design that best demonstrates advancing quality of
life for all. Public works is advancing the quality of
life for all every day through public services that
Advancing Quality of Life for
3 improve mobility, provide clean water, reduce the
All
use of natural resources, provide public places for
people to come together, and provide a safer place
to live, work, and play.
Design that provides the best sustainable food
Most Sustainable Food
4 production system while conserving soil, water, and
Production System
energy.
Best Use of Renewable Innovative and efficient use of renewable resources
5
Energy in energy systems.
Design that accommodates the most innovative
Most Innovative Design of
6 systems (e.g., transportation, water and wastewater)
Infrastructure Systems
for a community.
Teams should show how landscape architects apply
design thinking to harness the power of natural
resources to solve sustainable development
challenges so that all people can live in equitable,
Best Integration of Equity in
environmentally sound, and beautiful environments.
Designing the Built
7 Use creativity to apply nature-based solutions to
Environment using
address real-world problems such as gentrification,
Nature-Powered Solutions
diversity and inclusion, climate change, air and water
pollution, and threats to biodiversity while using
fewer resources

8 Best Futuristic City Use of futuristic engineering concepts in the city’s

 communications, energy, or transportation systems.
Efficient design of water treatment and distribution
for human consumption, agriculture, industry,
recreation, and fire protection. Responsible sewage
Best Management of Water
9 collection and treatment for environmental
Resources
protection and community aesthetics. Innovative
storm water collection, treatment, reuse and/or
discharge back into the environment.
Strategic placement of residential zones that allow
10 Best Residential Zone
maximum return for quality of life issues.
The City of the Future that The city whose design best incorporates historical
11 Best Incorporates Cultural and cultural sites, buildings, infrastructure and
and Historical Resources customs.
Best incorporation of Smart Grid technologies for the
safe, efficient and reliable delivery of electricity
throughout the city. A Smart Grid is the
12 Most Advanced Smart Grid
modernization of the electric power system by
applying advanced software tools, computer
controls, automation, and two-way communications.
Demonstration of excellence in the design of
Excellence in Systems
13 integrated systems of people, material, information
Integration
equipment, and energy
Design that thoughtfully integrates safe and
equitable ways to move people around their
communities. Considers multiple modes of
Best Transportation System sustainable transportation (with strong connections
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for the Community between different modes), prioritizes citizens’ health
and safety, and creates equitable access across the
city. Uses advanced and futuristic technology in ways
that support these overarching goals.
The design that employs the best land surveying
Best Land Surveying practices, taking into consideration the high
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Practices standards used by surveyors to help protect the
public’s safety and welfare.
This award is given to the team whose Future City
Mission Possible: Positively design promotes the best overall quality of life and
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Impacting the Community demonstrates the greatest potential to positively
impact the community for a sustainable future.
Professional Engineering In planning, designing, building, and maintaining
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Award your city, please explain and give examples of steps
 you will undertake to ensure your city’s engineers
are competent professionals; Comply with
engineering safety codes and technical standards;
and Reject behavior that misleads or deceives the
public.
Fire protection engineers use science and technology
to make our communities safe from fire. Fire
protection engineering features may include
structural fire resistance, detection and notification
Best Application of Fire systems, suppression systems, egress systems, and
18 Protection Engineering smoke management systems. The fire protection
Principles in City Design engineer ensures that these features all work
together to protect people, property, and the
environment from fire. Design that best incorporates
an innovative approach for fire protection, to protect
the public, property and environment
Demonstration of excellence in the city design of
Excellence in Resilience resilient systems that withstand and quickly adapt to
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Engineering adverse circumstances and events like natural
disasters.
Demonstrates unique and great aspects of a Future
City. This is up to the judge’s discretion for multiple
20 Best In Class award best in class aspects of the city which include Model,
Essay, and special award submittals. ​No special
award submittal is required for this award.