sentences:  In 1988, Friedmann received the Distinguished Planning Educator Award from the American Collegiate Schools of Planning.His achievements have been internationally recognized, with Honorary Doctorates from the Catholic University of Chile, the Dortmund University of Technology and York University in Toronto in 2016.In 2006, he was the first recipient of the UN-Habitat Lecture Award "for his outstanding and sustained contribution to research, thinking and practice in the field of Human Settlements."