The £250,000 competition for the Wolfson Prize for 2014, to deliver a new garden city, has been launched in a bid to address the housing crisis with a deadline for submissions of 3 March 2014.
The prize was launched last year by Conservative peer and retailer Next’s chief executive Simon Wolfson. The judging panel comprises:
- Trevor Osborne, chief executive, The Trevor Osborne Property Group (chair)
- Professor Denise Bower, director of the Engineering Project Academy at the University of Leeds
- David Cowans, group chief executive, Places for People
- Pascal Mittermaier, director of sustainability EMEA and project director, Elephant & Castle Regeneration Lend Lease
- Tony Pidgley, chairman, The Berkeley Group.
The Policy Exchange writes:
The second Wolfson Economics Prize, launched on 14th November 2013, will be awarded to the entrant who offers the best answer to the question ‘How would you deliver a new Garden City which is visionary, economically viable, and popular?’
The case for garden cities is overwhelming with the current housing situation in the UK creating hardship and inequality for millions of people. But finding an innovative way to build communities that truly provide for and support their residents is not simple to achieve. The 2014 Wolfson Economics Prize therefore seeks to develop an answer to the question of how to bring about a new garden city.
Entrants are asked to explore the Prize question in detail in a submission of up to 10,000 words (plus a Non-Technical Summary of 1,000 words). Entrants can also include charts, maps, tables, etc, and are welcome to add Appendices containing ancillary material.
Entrants are strongly advised to structure their submissions to cover the three closely interrelated criteria identified in the Prize question: vision, economic viability (and thus governance) and popularity.
Mr Wolfson said: ‘Garden cities provide a potential answer to the housing crisis in the UK. I want to challenge people to design a new city which is a credit to our age, architecturally inspiring, practical and desirable. This is a great opportunity for entrants to be innovative and creative, and I look forward to seeing the ideas that they come up with.’
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