TSB offers prize for area with best integrated city systems
A prize of £24m is being offered to the city or borough council that can demonstrate integrated city systems that improve the local economy, increase quality of life and reduce impact on the environment.
The prize is being offered through the ‘future city’ competition and 30 councils are to receive £50,000 each from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) to complete feasibility studies.
According to a statement, the cities that have completed the feasibility studies will also be able to submit a proposal for a large-scale ‘future cities demonstrator’, showing how the city’s multiple systems will be integrated and how challenges in the city will be addressed.
Iain Gray, chief executive of the TSB, said: ‘We planned originally to fund 20 feasibility studies, but because of the number of high-quality initial proposals received from councils across the whole country we decided to increase the funding available so that 30 studies could be carried out. The results will be made public and we look forward to seeing some exciting future city demonstrator proposals.’
The feasibility study reports, and proposals for a large-scale demonstrator, must be submitted by 14 November 2012. After assessment and interviews, the winning proposal will be announced in January 2013.
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