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The notion upon which this discussion about urban design awards at the Gold Coast starts, parallels Neville Quarry's thoughts about architecture awards. Quarry saw awards as a body of work accepted by the establishment as representing best practice (a canon) and that they are based upon published criteria. Certainly there are published criteria for the Gold Coast Urban Design Awards. Also present are leading respected figures of the professions and community (the establishment) who exercise judgement when selecting awards that are deemed to represent best practice, the canon. But an analysis of the awards since their inception in 1998 suggests that there are several further layers to the discourse beyond canon and criteria. Closer scrutiny presents questions about the politics of urban design, about urban design theory and practice and broadly about the maturity of the discipline. Gold Coast Urban Design Award projects and the Australia Award for Urban Design projects appear to recogni
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The notion upon which this discussion about urban design awards at the Gold Coast starts, parallels Neville Quarry's thoughts about architecture awards. Quarry saw awards as a body of work accepted by the establishment as representing best practice (a canon) and that they are based upon published criteria. Certainly there are published criteria for the Gold Coast Urban Design Awards. Also present are leading respected figures of the professions and community (the establishment) who exercise judgement when selecting awards that are deemed to represent best practice, the canon. But an analysis of the awards since their inception in 1998 suggests that there are several further layers to the discourse beyond canon and criteria. Closer scrutiny presents questions about the politics of urban design, about urban design theory and practice and broadly about the maturity of the discipline. Gold Coast Urban Design Award projects and the Australia Award for Urban Design projects appear to recogni
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