ABOUT THE YOUNG MAYOR COMPETITION The theme for this year is Planning a Clean and Green Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Targeted at youth leaders between 14 - 26 years old. We are inviting teams from the whole of Southeast Asia, especially the case-study country to participate. This is in line with our vision to reach out to as many youths as possible because the sustainability message is universal and is beyond borders. Also we want to encourage cross border exchanges among youths to increase knowledge and cultural exchange. Besides coaching in urban planning domains, we have added field trips to enhance the appreciation for Yangon and to invite all our participating countries to visit Singapore to see some of the urban solutions that Singapore has already embraced as an urban laboratory. Case study

“PLANNING A CLEAN AND GREEN TOWNSHIP - HERITAGE CITY, YANGON, MYANMAR”

Yangon, or formerly Rangoon, is a city rich with history and character. Yangon was the commercial and political hub of British Burma, a base for the independence movement and the capital city for the Military Government. Yangon's significance and influence, is still etched in its grand architecture, vistas and streets. The most sacred 2600 year old Buddhist Golden Pagoda still dominates the skyline on the western lakeside of Yangon today. Although the ruling government has shifted the administrative capital of Myanmar to Naypyidaw, 320 kilometres (199 miles) north of Yangon recently, Yangon still retains its commercial vibrancy and attracts large influx of people and commercial activities. As Yangon modernizes and undergoes the eventual urban development, physical layers of history and culture will be inevitably replaced. Further gentrification would mean tradition making way for modern lifestyles catering to a new generation of urban dwellers. Yangon, through a time-warp quirk in history, has managed to retain its streetscape, architectural harmony and grand urban design since World War II. But there are recent vast riverside real estate developments and economic improvement which are in motion. These time-wrapped buildings are under great threats and there is a need for preservation and adaptive re-use. A movement called the Yangon Heritage Trust, has begun campaigning for and documenting conservation efforts. The government has also earmarked 200 colonial era buildings under the Yangon Heritage List to prevent unconscious redevelopment to standardized glass encased hotels, offices and condominiums, which may erode the historical and cultural heritage aura of the city. Only with a delicate reform and heritage-oriented development scheme would then ensure the future generation a chance to see Yangon emerge, more illustrious and significant, as a Heritage City.

©Ministry of Transport Union of Myanmar for Presentation at

Third EST Forum Singapore

COMPETITION QUESTION Inspired by famous writers like Somerset Maugham and Rudyard Kipling who had time crystallized British Burma, the Yangon Heritage movement is currently heralding a new heartbeat as many colonial-era buildings sit on the key axis points of the city. Therefore, before Yangon become one of the many developing Asian cities which bear the uncontrolled pangs of high rises towers and large air-conditioned malls, with glaring signs boards, this year The Young Mayor Competition 2014, Planning a Clean and Green Township will focus on old Yangon city. The mayor of Yangon City has appointed you and your urban planning team to look into this district into a clean and green Heritage City. Your team has been tasked to look into rejuvenating the area (see map) to shape this city into the Heritage City of Asia. Given that Government funding is extremely limited, your town planning team needs to facilitate the regeneration of this area by taking into consideration any or all of the sustainability principles in terms of social, economic and environmental aspects. For instance, your team should firstly consider the cultural context and value-system of the Myanmar people when your team plans the historic preservation of key monuments and adaptive reuse of buildings. Your team has to outline some broad policy for this district, which may aid with the economic agenda of generating growth for its citizens so as to raise the quality of life through employment; while undertaking the pressing needs for housing, transport, sanitation, health, environment quality, energy sources, commercial activities and other infrastructural requirements. Once the policy directions have been articulated, your team needs to formulate strategies and programmes to be implemented for this area. Your plans for the area must showcase unique ideas (e.g historic preservation, adaptive re-use, infilling of new developments), timeline and resources needed. The proposal must illustrate how ideas can be materialised in a sustainable manner by taking into account of the legislative, cultural and financial status of the city. State all trade offs that must be addressed to realize your plan and in doing so, the vision of a clean and green heritage city can be achieved.

1.ELIGIBILITY This is an international competition open to students from Secondary School, Junior Colleges, ITE, Polytechnics, Universities, International Schools and all private education Institutes.

2.CATEGORY AND REGISTRATION FEES • There is no limit to the number of team from each institution.

Each team must not exceed 6 participants. • Each participating team submits the registration form by

email to join.us@activistar.com or fax to +65 91234567 by the closing date.

• Please download registration form at http://assembly.activistar-ads.com/p/downloads.html.

3.IMPORTANT TIMELINE

Category Description Local Fee International

Fee

Junior Category

Secondary 2- 4, Grade 7- 9 or equivalent SGD180

per team

USD150 per team

Senior Category

Junior College Year 1- 2, Grade 10-12 , ITE, Polytechnic and equivalent private institutions

Open Category

University Year 1-3 (26 years old and below)

SGD120 USD100

Local Institution Overseas Institution

Registration Closing Date Thursday, 6th Feb 2014 Friday, 1st Nov 2013

Preliminary Round

Workshop ( 6-hr ) Wednesday,

12th Feb 2014, Singapore

Via CD Study Pack (receive upon registration)

Proposal Submission deadline

Thursday, 13th Mar 2014 Friday, 20 Dec 2013

Notification of Shortlisted Proposals

Monday, 17th Mar 2014 Monday, 13 Jan 2014

Final Round

Multi Media Presentation Round (0900 – 1700)

Saturday, 22nd Mar 2014, Singapore

3D Model Building Round (0900-1200) Award Ceremony (1300-1500)

Sunday, 23rd Mar 2014, Singapore

ORGANISED BY

SPONSORED & ENDORSED BY

Address : 8 Joo Chiat Terrace Singapore 427181. Tel/Fax: +65 6612 1073 Official Competition Website : http://assembly.activistar-ads.com Email Address : join.us@activistar.com

4.COMPETITION ROUNDS Preliminary Round : Proposal Submission • All proposals for LOCAL INSTITUTIONS are to be submitted in

pdf format through join.us@activistar.com or send to 8 Joo Chiat Terrace, Singapore 427181 by 13th Mar 2014. Result will be notified through email by 17th Mar 2014.

• All proposals for OVERSEAS INSTITUTIONS are to be submitted in pdf format through join.us@activistar.com or send to 8 Joo Chiat Terrace, Singapore 427181 by 20th Dec 2013. Result will be notified through email by 13th Jan 2014.

• Top 5 proposals from the foreign teams WILL BE SPONSORED for a 3D2N stay in Singapore for the Competition Finals (excluding airfare).

• All proposal must not exceed 15 pages, in Times New Roman 12pt font, one-half line spacing with 1 inch margins from all sides on A4 size, in the following format: - One cover page containing the team name, participant’s

names with email contact and name of institution - Presentation of scenario - Explanation of the proposal for the sectors - Justification of your proposal - Elaboration of your planning and implementation - Summary - Cover Page, Appendices and Reference Page are excluded

from the 15 pages.

Final Round (Junior and Senior Category) : Multi Media Presentation Guidelines • Finalist teams will be required to present their proposal on

Saturday, 22rd Mar 2014. • All teams are given 20-minute to make a presentation.

Followed by a Question & Answer segment. • All team members must be present. Absentees must

accompany with valid reason in written form. • All other logistics required other than projector and screen

must be provided by participants. MacBook users, please bring any necessary adaptors / ports.

3D Model Building Guidelines • Finalist teams will have to construct the model of their

township on-site on Sunday, 23rd Mar 2014. Venue to be confirmed.

• Each team will be given 4 hours to complete the model. Please see judging criteria, downloadable at http://www.activistar-ads.com/assembly/competition.pdf

• All participants must be present for Question & Answers by the judges during the judging session.

• The participants must prepare own materials for building the models . No pre-constructed models are allowed.

• Participants are to provide a one-page A4 size portrait summary explaining key features of the model to be inserted into an acrylic stand to be on display with the model. The summary should have your team name, members and your institution.

• All models must be robustly built on a plywood base dimension of 800mm x 600mm. Please mark the name of your school and team on the underside of this base.

• Models and Proposal remain the property of Activistar Advocacy. A compilation of winning proposals will be published and selected models will go on a Road Show for a period of about 8 weeks.

5.JUDGING CRITERIA • This competition involves 4-stages : 1) Workshop, 2) Proposal,

3) Multi Media Presentation and 4) 3-D Model Building. • Judging will be based on the following weightage;

• panel of judges comprising of professionals, industry experts and adjudicators will determine the winners for each category at every stage.

• Judging criteria for PROPOSAL, MULTI-MEDIA PRESENTATION and 3D MODEL can be downloaded from http://www.activistar-ads.com/assembly/competition.pdf

• The judges’ decision is final.

6.TRAINING • The training workshop is vital to build up critical knowledge

for this competition. All members of the participating teams are encouraged to attend the workshop (local) or listen to the Study Pack (overseas participants).

• Relevant topics will be covered during this session. • A separate workshop at your school premise can be

requested, chargeable at SGD550 per session (applicable to teams in Singapore only)

• For overseas participants, a CD Study Pack will be delivered.

Stages

Junior and Senior Category

(Singapore)

Junior and Senior Category

(International)

Open

Category

Training 6% (Workshop) 6% (Virtual Coaching)

Written Proposal

44% 44% 100%

Multi Media Presentation

25% 25%

Model Building 25% 25% Study Trip Itinerary

Outbound Field Trip – Yangon Heritage Study Tour

A comprehensive journey to visit some culture heritage sites listed under National Heritage Trust; monuments, churches, temples, Shwedagon Pagoda, colonial buildings, City Hall, Chinatown, Bogyoke Market, Karaweik Palace This trip includes guest speakers to address some of the challenges the city is facing under the current development.

Date: 17 - 20 Sep and 10 - 13 Dec 2013 (4D/3N ) Cost : From SGD1499 (twin sharing) with min 20 pax to go Note : Prices are subjected to agency rates *All trip itineraries and logistics will be handled by licensed tour agency

Inbound Study Trip – Singapore as a Living Lab for urban solutions

This compact program offers an overview of City Planning. All the fundamentals of planning a town are integrated into this 6-Day/ 5-Night program. Day 1: Secrets to Singapore success (History, Civic, Economical success) Day 2: Mosaics of Singapore ( Housing old and new) Day 3: Garden City State ( Environment Study) Day 4: Uniquely Singapore ( Culture and People) Day 5: Free & Easy ( Sentosa and Universal Studio) Day 6: Shopping and flight home This package includes;

5 full-day program 5 night hostel accommodation All meals Airport transfers 1 Free & Easy Day (all entrance fee to attractions will not be covered)

Date : 1st week of Nov 2013, Dec 2013 and Jan 2014

(6D/5N) Cost : USD1099 (twin sharing) with min 40 pax to go

7.PRIZES The prizes for “The Young Mayor Competition 2014” are;

8.STUDY TRIP

PAST WINNERS

Year 2012 Planning a Clean and Clean Township, Old Quarter of Hanoi

Category Champion 1St Runners Up 2nd Runners Up

Category A Raffles Girls Secondary School

Hwa Chong Institution

United World College, SEA

Category B Raffles Institution (Junior College)

Anglo Chinese Junior College

Category C Temasek Polytechnic

Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Nanyang Polytechnic

Special Award

Most Creative Prototype Township - River Valley High, Team < Une Nouvelle Hanoi > Most Touching Storyteller - Shaun Teo, Singapore Sports School Most Sizzling Pitch - Levonne Goh, River Valley High Judges' Pick - Tan Xing Jie, Ngee Ann Polytechnic Youngest Future Mayor - Christopher Chew, Hwa Chong Institution

Year 2013 Planning a Clean and Clean Waterfront Iskandar Region, Johore

Category Champion 1St Runners Up 2nd Runners Up

Category A Hwa Chong Institution

United World College SEA

SMK Technic Johor Bahru

Category B Dunman High (Junior College)

Dunman High (Junior College)

Raffles Institution (Junior College)

Category C

Republic Polytechnic & Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Skudai

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Skudai

Special Award

Activistar Advocacy Award – Institute of Technical Education, Campus East Judges’ Pick - SMK Dato Penggawa Timur, Masai Pasir Gudang Convincing Pitch - Ms. Amanda, SMK Teknic Johor Bahru Future Young Mayor - Chia Xun An, Ngee Ann Polytechnic: ABB Most Innovative Township: Team LEON, Ngee Ann Polytechnic

PAST SUPPORTERS & SPONSORS

DESCRIPTION OF

AWARDS

PRIZES FOR COMPETITION 2014

Champion First Runner-Up Second Runner-Up

Junior Category Finals

SGD1000 & Trophy

SGD800 & Trophy

SGD500 & Trophy

Senior Category Finals

SGD1000 & Trophy

SGD800 & Trophy

SGD500 & Trophy

Open Category SGD800 &

Trophy - -

Special Award

Most Convincing Pitch Trophy

Most Innovative Model Township

Trophy

Judges’ Pick Trophy

Best Prototype Trophy

Sule Pagoda at Yangon City Center and colonial building