Call for entries European Prize for Urban Public Space 2016
The Prize organisers call for entries, namely all kinds of interventions which, completed between 2014 and 2016, create or recover the urban spaces we share, or improve their democratic quality.
The Prize organisers announce the call for entries for the Ninth European Prize for Urban Public Space (2016). This biennial honorary award has been offered since 2000 in order to recognise, encourage and publicise examples of good practice in the ways in which the public spaces of European cities respond to the many challenges they presently face. Subject to processes of exponential growth and transformation, these cities now face a situation where the democratic ideal which, for millennia, has sought to achieve coexistence in equality in conditions of plurality, is endangered. Segregation, inequalities, unchecked urban construction, unsustainable squandering and serious shortfalls in making effective the right to the city are problems which become palpably manifest in public spaces and this is precisely the front from which they can be combatted with the best possible results.
True to this cause, the Prize embraces all kinds of interventions which create, recover or improve the democratic quality of the urban spaces we share, and is jointly awarded to both the authors of the projects and their promoters. All works presented for the present award need to have been carried out in European cities between 2014 and 2016. Registration is gratis and may be done between 13 January and 22 February on the Prize website, where the schedule and rules can be downloaded, together with the necessary documents and conditions for participation.
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