@thehappycity Auckland Conversations talk

If you missed Charles Montgomery’s great Auckland Conversation talk last week – of if you want to see it again then it is now available online. He covered a range of topics as well as giving some insights on what he had learned from Auckland so far.

Greg N says:
April 20, 2015 at 5:08 pm
I tried to watch this but I would have been really useful for the folks who recorded this to pan the camera up to include the slides or images of them as they were referred to by the speaker.
Seeing and hearing Charles refer to a image or graphic on the screen above him – that you can’t see kind of diminishes the whole process and so I gave up.
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1. davidjroos says:
  April 21, 2015 at 3:28 am
  Yeah, it made watching it yesterday really frustrating – don’t they usually mix in the slides when required?
  My favourite part about these is, without fail, the first question being an ‘older adult’ basically stating that if we give pedestrians and cyclists space then how will all the elderly\disabled people be able to drive to the front doors of everything. He gave the correct answer, at least, but both his talk and question response were too conceptually difficult with the current reality, I suspect.
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bobsydaisy says:
April 20, 2015 at 5:40 pm
Haven’t watched it yet, but will. As it is difficult to get to these events I can only be thankful for what you are doing to spread this. If that was him on Radio NZ last week (I missed his name), he was brilliant, without the images. Someone talk him into staying, or coming back.
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1. Greg N says:
  April 20, 2015 at 5:54 pm
  It was Charles was on Radio NZ’s Sunday morning programme a week ago between about 8:35am and 8:55am.
  He was also on Q+A that same morning on TV One.
  Shame his message went right over the heads of the Q+A folks and commentators as they prattled on about other topics.
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Jamorito says:
April 21, 2015 at 11:18 am
Charles’s talk was fantastic. What depresses me is the huge raft of great local and international speakers that AC continue to present….yet they dont implement any of it…
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1. davidjroos says:
  April 21, 2015 at 12:56 pm
  This – for me it’s excitement followed by disheartening…..ment. Not to bag on Ludo, because god knows what the inner politics and realities of the council/AT are, but after a big noise about the NY\Sadik Khan stuff we’ve so far gotten an unused plaza redone and a busses only road closed for 1 day. Hopefully it’s building up some political capital to ‘spend’ later, but if we were serious we’d be closing high street on weekends to see it works, closing lower queen street on weekends or evenings because why not, planter box cycle lanes rather than committing to gold plated from the start etc etc. Just to see what happens – the only cost is political.
  I’m sure there are people in council who know this – I want to know what is holding them back.
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majmurr says:
April 21, 2015 at 4:45 pm
The video seems to have been taken down. Try http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://aucklandconversations.e-cast.co.nz/auckland-conversations/details/121
instead.
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1. mfwic says:
  April 22, 2015 at 10:21 am
  Thanks for the linkmajmurr. The speaker starts at 11min21sec.
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mfwic says:
April 22, 2015 at 2:02 pm
Funny- some of the happiest people I know live in short cul-de-sacs (or culs-de sac or streets like the end of a bag.) They all get to know each other and share a common interest in the area.
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