“Merge into the City” from Canton’s University of Science and Technology
	"Emotion City" from Shanghai’s Tongji University
	“Mediator” from Berlin’s University of Technology

The three runner-up prizes went to the projects  “City Ring Road” and “The Decentralizer” from Amsterdam’s Berlage Institute and to “Tango in Shanghai” from the Paris Val-de-Seine School of Architecture.
Four honourable mentions were also awarded at a solemn ceremony on the campus of Canton’s University of Science and Technology.

Urban projects and sustainable development
City officials came to present the sites for which the competitors had submitted projects to the jury**: the Xujiahui shopping district in Shanghai, the main bridge surrounds in Wuhan and the industrial zone undergoing conversion by the Pearl River in Canton.

The jury members were impressed by the ability of the winning projects to propose innovative solutions combining mobility and good quality urban spaces.
The debates were characterised by major themes, such as the powerful trends influencing the evolution of the modern city: the promotion of the pedestrian city as a a sensitive approach to urban environment, the importance of reversibility in all operations affecting the city, the need to make urban spaces accessible to all, even large and often unattractive road infrastructures.

The participants – teachers, students, architects and municipal representatives – stressed the advantage of a competition based on international exchanges.
On the Chinese side, there was an awareness that time should be allocated to reflection and innovation when making the city, even if the need for sustainable development does not have the same resonance as in Europe, given the development imperatives.
On the European side, the Chinese context provided a terrain for experimentation where questions of density, project time and the relationship to infrastructures takes on a much greater urgency.
More broadly, everyone appreciated an urban project approach to a question that is not exclusively a transport issue: mobilities as the guiding thread of a diversified approach that takes into account large-scale territorial factors, the quality of local spaces, environment, economic development and growth, as well as urban lifestyles.

Urban spaces increasingly dominated by the dynamics of flows: International issues                                                                                                                                                        The questions raised by the competition gave rise to discussions between Europeans and Chinese at a day organised on November 5 by Guangdong Museum as a preview to the Canton Triennial of Contemporary Art.
Multipartite discussions between architects, urban designers and artists from the different countries highlighted Chinese and European priorities in the relationship to the new urban landscapes, both with regard to nature in the city and to infrastructures.

Because of the burning nature of these fundamental questions, both in China and in Europe, and because the possibilities raised by a combined China-Europe vision still require exploration, the different partners involved in the organisation of the competition have decided to pursue the adventure.

The competition catalogue describing the projects and the jury’s assessment is currently in preparation.

IVM’s University Chair in China
In December 2005, Tongji University’s IVM International University Chair in Shanghai hosted a series of lectures and round tables led by visiting professor François Ascher, Professor of the French Institute of Urban Design and Chairman of IVM’s Scientific and Strategy Council.