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Idea #4: Developing the city by design (competitions)

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Mar 09, 2026
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THERE is no obvious reason why the city council does not require development proposals for ‘significant’ sites in the capital - say all those over one acre in size - to be the subject of a design competition.

Maybe developers have consistently and successfully lobbied against it, because they have done the numbers and the numbers tell them that a design …

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