Margarita Piel McCoy (May 25, 1923 — March 31, 2016) was an American urban planner and educator.
After finishing high school in Garden City, New York, in 1940, she attended Wells College and Northwestern University.
In 1970, McCoy received her Master of Urban Planning from the University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy.
[4] In 1998, the ACSP established the Margarita McCoy Award, which biannually recognizes individuals who have made an outstanding contribution toward the advancement of women in planning at institutions of higher education through service, teaching, and/or research.
[5] Notable winners have included Eugenie L. Birch (1995), Karen R. Polenske (2001), Dolores Hayden (2006), and Daphne Spain (2008).