2022 New York Planning Federation
Heissenbuttel Award for Planning Excellence
For Nautilus' work on the Village of Haverstaw Comprehensive Plan & LWRP Updates. Watch the Award Ceremony video…
Shortly after the Comprehensive Plan was adopted in 2021, the Village also won $10 million in funding from New York State through the Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) as one of only ten communities in the state to receive that honor. Read more about the project…
2016 Society of American Registered Architects (SARA)
Design Award of Excellence - National
Design Awards Program - New York Council
For work on an Implementation Plan for the Kingston Waterfront Brownfield Opportunity Area Step 3 as part of a team headed by P+W. Nautilus International designed key elements of the BOA plan - a local management structure and updates to existing design guidelines and standards - to sustain successful implementation over the next 20 years or more. Read more…
2014 National American Institute of Architects
Honors Award for Collaborative and Professional Achievement
The Post-Sandy Initiative, a multi-disciplinary collaboration of professionals led by the AIA NY Chapter was honored with the profession's highest recognition. Harken co-chaired the Waterfront Working Group. The initiative addressed impacts of Hurricane Sandy and escalating climate change and published
Building Better, Building Smarter: Opportunities for Design and Development (May 2013). Read more about Nautilus' post-Sandy work…
2010–present
Representative of APA's New York Metro Chapter
New York City Mayor's Waterfront Management Advisory Board
2011–present
Member, Board of Directors
Working Harbor Committee
2012–2013
Member, Technical Advisory Group
Coastal Climate Resilience:
Urban Waterfront
Adaptive Strategies
NYC Department of City Planning
Representative of APA's New York Metro Chapter
2011–2013
Member, Revisions Subcommittee
NYC Waterfront Revitalization Program (WRP)
NYC Department of City Planning
Representative of APA's New York Metro Chapter
2011 American Planning Association
New York Metro Chapter
Floyd Lapp Award
For meritorious service to the Chapter and profession,
Harken was selected by the Chapter President on the basis of her excellent work as Co-Chair of the APA's Waterfront Committee for over the last 10 years.
2010–2011 American Planning Association
NY Metro Chapter
APA's Representative on the Advisory Group
to NYC's Department of City Planning's for Vision 2020: New York City Comprehensive
Waterfront Plan. Chair of
the chapter's cross-committee Task Force on the comprehensive plan.
2009 United Nations Association
of the United States of America
Expert Speaker on the impact of climate change
on sustainable urban waterfront development
at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference
on Year of Change: New Prospects for America
at the United Nations.
2006 American Planning Association,
National Chapter Presidents Council
Overall Achievement Award to New York Metro Chapter
with special mention of the work and interdisciplinary
collaborations of the Waterfront Committee,
co-chaired by Bonnie Harken.
2005 United Nations, Division for Sustainable Development
UN Expert on sustainable urban waterfront development
at the Symposium on Integrated Implementation
of Sustainable Development Goals held in Nanchang, China.
2003 National American Institute of Architects
Honors Award for Collaborative Achievement
New York New Visions, a coalition of planning and
architectural professionals that Harken helped found,
was honored with the profession's highest recognition.
This coalition came together in the aftermath
of September 11 and influenced the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan.
2002 & 2003 American Planning Association,
New York Metro Chapter
Meritorious Achievement Award
& Leadership in City and Regional Planning
For leadership of the Chapter's participation
of 75+ planners in the influential New York New Visions
coalition for two years.
2002 American Planning Association,
New York Metro Chapter
Floyd Lapp Award
For Harken's "meritorious" service to the Chapter
and profession in the aftermath of 9/11.
2002 Shanghai North Bund Developing Leading Group
1st Place in International Competition
For the North Bund Waterfront Area Planning and Design
(as part of HLW International LLP team).
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