Government provides 50k boost for cities
Author: The MJ |
Thirty councils across the UK have received 50,000 each of government cash to support their bids to win a 24m ‘future city’ prize.
The money will pay for feasibility studies showing how the individual authorities would best integrate transport, communications and other infrastructure in their area, ‘to improve the local economy, increase quality of life, and reduce impact on the environment’.
The Government’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), is organising and funding the competition and will announce the winning ‘Future cities demonstrator’ in January 2013. All bids must be submitted by mid-November.
Cllr Gordon Matheson, leader of Glasgow City Council ? which is bidding for the prize ? said: ‘We will do all we can to show that Glasgow deserves to be considered the UK city best placed to meet the many demands we will face in the decades to come’.