Nelson St Cycleway Phase 2
Yesterday the first and largest section of the Canada St Bridge was lifted into place. Once complete in a few months it will provide walkers and cyclist’s access to the old Nelson St off-ramp which will lead them to the new cycleway being built on Nelson St.…
32 Comments The Aotea Framework
Transforming an entire city centre is no quick and easy task. In 2012 the council adopted the fantastic City Centre Master Plan (CCMP) which laid out the vision for Auckland’s city centre over a 30 year period and identified a huge number of potential projects.…
Amsterdam is “bad ass”
Greetings from Amsterdam. As some of you may know, I’ve recently moved here from Brisbane to begin a PhD in Economics. Fun times.
In this post I want to briefly touch on some reasons why Amsterdam is such a “bad ass” city and possibly glean some information that may be relevant to Auckland.…
Briefing papers 2: “Understanding housing affordability”
AUT’s Briefing Papers initiative has kindly allowed us to syndicate their recent series on housing. The second briefing paper is written by Motu Institute economist Arthur Grimes: Housing affordability is a multi-faceted, complex issue. Concentration on just one aspect of the issue – be it housing supply, land supply, interest rates, construction costs or migration – will miss important aspects of why house prices vary in different locations at different times.…
Guest Post: $1 billion Fletcher/Crown housing development —Christchurch CBD – Part 5
This is part five in a five part series of guest posts on the Christchurch rebuild from reader Brendon Harre. It first appeared on the Making Christchurch blog.
You can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4
Part 5: Is there an alternative model to re-developing a city centre?…
Flags and Public Transport
The flag debate has dominated a lot of discussion over the last week since the four insipid designs were released by the government’s flag panel.
Jarrett Walker who is a public transport expert and author of the book Human Transit – and who has helped AT develop the New Network – has published an interesting post on his blog about what can be learnt from our flag design process.…
New City Bus Lanes coming
Auckland Transport have highlighted this before but it’s worth repeating in the lead up to the start of the CRL works. As part of the effort to minimise disruption and encourage people to use public transport which is more spatially efficient they will be installing a number of new bus lanes around the city centre.…
Square and Hall Upgrade
A road no longer runs though it – that’s just one of the things we’ll be able to say about Freyberg Square if the council’s proposal to upgrade it and the adjacent Pioneer Women’s and Ellen Melville Hall goes ahead. This is great news as both the square and the hall are well used despite being a bit run down, an upgrade on both are well overdue.…
The case against publicly-owned golf courses, part 1
Auckland’s 14 publicly owned golf courses have been in the public eye lately. Economist Shamubeel Eaqub argued that Auckland Council should develop housing on the golf courses:
In June, Eaqub said he wanted the golf courses sold and this was published in a book he had written.…
77 M’s
The word Metro is synonymous public transport, particularly underground systems and the letter M has become an instantly recognisable symbol used to identify those systems. A post from CityLab a few months ago highlights 77 different examples of how cities have designed the letter M.…
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