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Fact Sheet: DIFA-AWARD 2004 Future of the City. City of the future

Fact Sheet

DIFA-AWARD 2004 “Future of the City. City of the future”

Theme: “Contributions to revitalising urban quarters.”

Special aspects: Publicly accessible places Quarter management

Participants: Aimed at cities with 100,000 inhabitants or more in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK

Qualifying for entry: City planning and building departments, economic development agencies and other municipal institutions, investors, project developers and architects’ practices, etc. are all eligible to enter

Prizes: 1st prize: €15,000 2nd prize: €10,000 3rd prize: € 5,000

Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2003

Notification of shortlisted

entrants 5 March 2004

Awards ceremony: EXPO REAL 2004

Download competition

materials and entry form http://www.difa.de

History of the competition: 2004: DIFA-AWARD held at international level for the first time on the theme of “urban quarters”

      2002: Open to German towns and cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants. The theme was “Quartier developments in an urban context”

      2001: Inauguration of the DIFA-AWARD – open to

      German students of town planning, architecture, civil

      engineering, transport planning, ecology and sociology

      (urban studies)

Competition office: P.U.N.K.T. PR GmbH, Stefan Voß, Tel. +49 (0)40 853 76 0-15, eMail: svoss@punkt-pr.de

Press contact: DIFA, Fabian Hellbusch, Tel. +49 (0)40 34 919-160