Extending dialogue in a design competition? A participatory 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...

Design competition towards sustainability: A case study of Low2No international competition in Finland

In current mitigating-climate-change scenario, the urbanized area is believed to be crucial to the sustainable development of our living environment. In this respect, the low2No international competition has been recently held in Finland with an attempt to trigger systematic change on sustainable development nationally toward a low carbon future...