[2] The 2014 Prize asked the question "How would you deliver a new Garden City which is visionary, economically viable, and popular?”[3] It was won by David Rudlin of urban design consultancy, URBED.
[4] For the 2021 edition, the Prize question is "How would you design and plan new hospitals to radically improve patient experiences, clinical outcomes, staff wellbeing and integration with wider health and social care?
[8] The full question was "How can we pay for better, safer, more reliable roads in a way that is fair to road users and good for the economy and the environment?”[9] The organisers determined that submissions should focus on: The panel of judges who decided the award is as follows: Gergely Raccuja of Highways England won the prize with the input of the RAC Foundation On 14 November 2013, Simon Wolfson announced that he intended to offer a new £250,000 Prize to the entrant who best answers the question "How would you deliver a new Garden City which is visionary, economically viable, and popular?"
David's entry argues for the near-doubling of an existing large town in line with garden city principles, to provide new housing for 150,000 people (about the size of Oxford or Canterbury).
The entry proposes a model designed to attract massive private investment into the provision of high quality homes, jobs, services and infrastructure.
The delivery model prioritises speed and volume over profit margins, aims to acquire land at low cost and transfer valuable assets to a Community Trust for the long term.
[11] On 18 October 2011, British businessman and Conservative life peer Simon Wolfson launched a contest[note 1] that offered a £250,000 reward "for an individual to come up with a plan for how the euro could be safely dismantled.
Importantly, careful consideration must also be given to managing the potential impact on the international banking system.The contest was organised by Policy Exchange, the London-based British think tank.
The organisers determined that submissions should focus on:[16] The panel of judges who would decide on the award was as follows:[17] Some of the world's top economists[20] were among the participants with a total of 425 entries.
[13] Capital Economics, in their entry, stated that a country contemplating leaving the euro would have to "keep its plans secret until the last minute," introduce capital controls, start "printing" a new currency only after formal exit, seek a large depreciation, default on its debts, recapitalise busted banks and seek close co-operation with remaining eurozone members.
The short list of finalists[25][26] was: On 5 July 2012, Policy Exchange announced[27] that the winning entry was submitted by the team led by Roger Bootle from macroeconomics research consultancy firm Capital Economics, titled Leaving the Euro: A Practical Guide.
It called for keeping the euro for small transactions and for a short period of time after the exit from the Eurozone, along with a strict regime of inflation-targeting and tough fiscal rules monitored by "independent experts".
[20] The Roger Bootle/Capital Economics plan also suggested that "key officials" should meet "in secret" one month before the exit is publicly announced, and that Eurozone partners and international organisations should be informed "three days before".