The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design is awarded biannually to recognize excellence in urban design with an emphasis on projects that contribute to the public realm of a city and improve the quality of urban life. Recent Green Prize recipients include the City of Aleppo, for the rehabilitation of the Old City; Adriaan Geuze/West 8, for Borneo Sporenburg, Amsterdam; and Jorge Mario Jauregui Architects, for the Favela-Bairro Project.

Other prize winners have been Foster and Partners in 1998; Mexico City in 1996; joint winners Fumihiko Maki and Luigi Snozzi in 1993; the City of Barcelona in 1990; and joint winners Ralph Erskine and Alvaro Siza in 1988.