Stuart’s 100 #34 Best of Both Worlds
34: Best of Both Worlds What if the New Auckland can combine the best of both worlds?
One of the defining characteristics of the 21st century is that cities everywhere are having a global conversation and a global competition with each other.…
Comment Auckland can’t afford to price out the young
It’s no secret that Auckland has a problem with high-cost housing. House prices have risen significantly faster than average incomes in recent years. As a recent Treasury working paper (Skidmore, 2014) documented, Auckland’s house prices have quadrupled in the last generation, and rents have more than doubled.…
Why are we still building roads like this?
Auckland is suffering hugely from decades of building new infrastructure or changing old infrastructure to be dedicated to the efficient movement of just one mode at the expense of all others. Getting good walking, cycling or public transport infrastructure and priority retrofitted to existing roads has proved to be a massive uphill battle and one that shows no sign of being over any time soon.…
Stuart’s 100 # Auckland Hospital
33: Auckland Hospital What if Auckland Hospital could spare a thought for the people that move through and around it?
The Auckland Hospital seemed an obvious candidate to continue a series thinking about disappointing government buildings and institutions in Auckland.
It certainly does not present a very friendly face to the city on Grafton Road and is almost unintelligible as to how to enter from the street and move through the site at ground level.…
NZTA appealing Basin Flyover
The NZTA have announced they are going to challenge the decision of the Board Of Inquiry (BOI) to decline the consent for the Basin Flyover.
The Basin Reserve flyover battle is heading to court.
The New Zealand Transport Agency will today reveal its intention to fight the decision by a board of inquiry to decline resource consent for the controversial highway project.…
Airport Motorway upgrade
The NZTA have announced that next year they will be starting construction on grade separating the intersection of SH20A and Kirkbride Rd and bringing SH20A up to full motorway standard. The project was announced last year as part of the governments Accelerated Roads Package which is seeing them pump $800 million into making bigger motorways.…
Stuart’s 100 #32: Inhabited Bridges
32: Inhabited Bridges What if every Auckland motorway bridge could in time become a Ponte Vecchio?
Ponte Vecchio, that famous bridge-as-building across the River Arno in Florence, is only the most famous example of the mash up inhabited bridge typology that was pretty standard in medieval Europe.…
Pukekohe and Waiuku new network consultation
After holding off on any major consultations while the election campaign was in full swing, Auckland Transport have hit the ground running this week by starting consulting on the new bus network for Pukekohe and Waiuku. It’s good to see the new network progressing and adds to the Hibiscus Coast and South Auckland networks that have been consulted on.…
Alain Bertaud in Auckland
Back in July former World Bank urban planner Alain Bertaud and his wife Marie-Agnes, a fellow professional in the field, came down to New Zealand at the invitation of the NZ Initiative and the Minister of Finance’s office to deliver a series of talks on urban economics.…
Stuart’s 100 #31: The City Centre is a Local Centre Too
31: The City Centre is a Local Centre Too What if the city centre had local shops like other dense places?
Day 31 continues a series looking at things missing from the city centre; in this case thinking about local shops and services.…
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