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Design by Competition and the Potential for Public Participation: Assessing an Urban Design Competition on Toronto’s Waterfront
Design competitions are often used to select design teams for high profile development projects, yet have received scant attention in the literature. Seeking to redress this imbalance, this paper presents a competition model that was employed on Toronto’s waterfront in 2006 for a large public realm project and describes how it was structured around an iterative public consultation process. Although subject to a number of implementation delays, the competition sponsors built a constituency of support for the redevelopment project by engaging lay people in the decision-making process. The paper argues that the competition struck a balance between lay input and professional knowledge and contends that future research efforts should continue to explore means by which public participation can be integrated into design competitions.
Design by Competition and the Potential for Public Participation: Assessing an Urban Design Competition on Toronto’s Waterfront
Design competitions are often used to select design teams for high profile development projects, yet have received scant attention in the literature. Seeking to redress this imbalance, this paper presents a competition model that was employed on Toronto’s waterfront in 2006 for a large public realm project and describes how it was structured around an iterative public consultation process. Although subject to a number of implementation delays, the competition sponsors built a constituency of support for the redevelopment project by engaging lay people in the decision-making process. The paper argues that the competition struck a balance between lay input and professional knowledge and contends that future research efforts should continue to explore means by which public participation can be integrated into design competitions.
Design by Competition and the Potential for Public Participation: Assessing an Urban Design Competition on Toronto’s Waterfront
White, James T. (author)
Journal of Urban Design ; 19 ; 541-564
2014-08-08
24 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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