Garden cities for tomorrow

The challenge: Create a vision (model/masterplan/concept) of a place (parcel of land/development /community/city-scale) by re-imagining the garden city principles* for the 21st Century.

You must demonstrate how your vision or proposal would make a significant contribution to meet the current urban challenges of:

1. Creating healthy places while accommodating demographic change and migration
2. Climate change mitigation and adaptation
3. Engaging with economic, technological and industrial transformation
4. Ensuring social justice

The Prizes

Students with the most imaginative and convincing entries could win the following:

• 1^st place - €1000, invitation to present your idea in London to a large international audience and a free place at the IFHP Centenary Congress. Return travel expenses to London (including accommodation and €50 subsistence money for the week).
• 2^nd place - €750, a free place at the IFHP Centenary Congress and return travel expenses to London (including accommodation and €50 subsistence money for the week).
• 3^rd place - €500, a free place at the IFHP Centenary Congress and return travel expenses to London (including accommodation and €50 subsistence money for the week).
• All finalists’ work will form an exhibition in central London as part of the IFHP Centenary Congress in June 2013.

Timescale

• November 2012: Competition Launch and registration by email opens
• 5 January 2013: Online competition registration opens
• 11 March 2013: Submission for entries opens
• 8 April 2013: Deadline for entries (all in electronic format)
• April 2013: Examination of entries
• 17 April 2013: Announcement of shortlisted finalists and call for additional submission material (e.g. models) from finalists
• 3 May 2013: Deadline for additional submission material from finalists
• April & May 2013: Examination of finalists entries
• 10 May 2013: Notification of top three Prize winners
• 08-11 June 2013: Awards ceremony and exhibition og finalists durig the IFHP Centenary Congress

An opportunity to promote your ideas
This competition is an opportunity to promote your ideas, as a future built environment professional, to an international audience of planners, architects, urban designers, politicians and many others. It will be an exceptional achievement to have on your CV.

If you want to enter or have questions contact:
Isobel Bruun-Kiær
Isobel.bruun-kiaer@tcpa.org.uk
T: +44 (0) 20 7930 8903

More: http://london2013.ifhp.org/content/ifhp-student-competition-garden-cities-tomorrow