Shortlisted EUROCITIES 2011 awards entries announced

EUROCITIES Award 2011

The awards are judged in the context of the theme of the annual conference by an independent jury of 5 members representing the conference theme, academia, EU institutions, media and the third sector. Jury members change every year.
The Awards 2011 will reward entries that put citizens at the centre of urban planning and change, promoting environmental sustainability and social cohesion. They should be strongly linked to the idea of “smart” cities and making cities become more liveable, accessible to everybody. This year the awards will showcase examples of ‘planning for people’ in EUROCITIES’ 3 permanent categories of innovation, participation and cooperation. In each of these categories the jury will be judging to what extent a plan (e.g. for a city or neighbourhood) or a development or regeneration project better reflects the needs of the community through:

• Innovation – in the way the plan or project is conceived, designed, financed or delivered;
• Participation – of citizens, residents and other stakeholders affected; or
• Cooperation – between the city authority and other partners, such as landowners, agencies, institutions, businesses, investors or developers.

In all submissions the jury will therefore be looking for clear evidence that the plan or the development project:

• as a result of the approach adopted, is significantly different from what might have been normally expected, and
• has attracted support and ‘buy-in’ from the people affected by the plan or development.

And the nominees are…

INNOVATION:

• Berlin: ‘Grasping’ Berlin- ‘shaping’ Berlin
• Nice Cote d'Azur: one ticket, one tariff, one territory
• Rotterdam: ‘do-it-yourself- houses in Rotterdam’

  
COOPERATION:

• Bydgoszcz: The Mill Island: revitalisation with cooperation of various stakeholders
• Dortmund: Phoenix Dortmund - integrating urban redevelopment with an intense cooperative quality
• Stockholm: the invest in Järva programme

  
PARTICIPATION:

• Frankfurt am Main: sustainable and energetic reconstruction of the residential area Heinrich-Lüßke-Siedlung
• Lisbon: todos - Caminhada de Culturas - everybody - a walk of cultures
• Zaragoza: esto no es un solar - this is not a plot (recovery of urban empty spaces for new uses)

This year’s conference, held in Genoa from 2 to 5 November, will focus on ‘planning for people’, so the jury was looking for projects which successfully demonstrated this theme.