Get ready for Australia Award for Urban Design 2011
Entries for the 2011 Australia Award for Urban Design will be invited at the beginning of April.
The intent and scope of the Award is wideranging – given for design initiatives, projects, developments, or publications that will make a significant difference to the places, spaces, buildings and infrastructure of our cities and towns. The criteria are comprehensive: assessing how the submissions demonstrate excellence; how they contribute to a wider appreciation of urban design; and how they address contemporary social and cultural issues, historic settings, change and adaptation, and ecological considerations.
The Award is hosted by Planning Institute of Australia, with support from Australian Institute of Architects, Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, Property Council of Australia, Green Building Council of Australia, Consult Australia (Association of Consulting Engineers Australia), and the Urban Design Forum. Details of the Award entry requirements will be posted on the various websites of these organisations in April. What have you done recently that deserves recognition?
Also in UDFQ 93: March 2011:
- Urban design and ‘extreme climate events’
- Dispatch from the Front
- Urban design – with the head or the heart?
- Cities for People
- Urban design and natural disasters
- Urban Living beyond the Metroplex
- Australian Urban Design Initiative (AUDI) update
- Our Cities: national urban policy in progress
- Can New Urbanism foster a sense of community? It is still a claim!
- Excluding children in cities
- Need for more than clichéd hopes
- Strengthening Victoria’s liveability
- Reviving Melbourne’s historic Northbank
- Conferences, etc