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Design by Competition and the Potential for Public Participation: Assessing an Urban Design Competition on Toronto's Waterfront

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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.

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  • James T. White, 2014. "Design by Competition and the Potential for Public Participation: Assessing an Urban Design Competition on Toronto's Waterfront," Journal of Urban Design, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(4), pages 541-564, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cjudxx:v:19:y:2014:i:4:p:541-564
    DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2014.923744
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