The linear city and other science fictions
Last week, urban designer lecturers Dushko Bogunovich and Matthew Bradbury published an article on their vision for transforming Auckland into a “linear city”:
Instead, we suggest a linear, city-region that follows the opportunities and respects the constraints in the landscape. Its central spine would connect many nodes of density, functioning as centres of commerce and production, with high-rise living.…
152 Comments Sunday reading 6 March 2016
Here’s a light start to Sunday Reading from Alissa Walker at Gizmodo who has compiled a neat before and after series of images from Amsterdam,”Look How Much Better a City Can Be When It Designs for People Not Cars”. The images are from the Sustainable Amsterdam project.…
Quay St Cycleway construction starts this week
Good news with AT announcing that the Quay St cycleway that was consulted on a few months ago will start construction this week. They also say the first section from Lower Quay St to Commerce St will be finished by Mid-May
Construction of Quay Street cycleway begins next week and is expected to open in July.…
Brightening up the capital’s laneways
This is a guest post from reader Andy C in Wellington.
Over the past year, the Wellington City Council has started to get serious about brightening up some of our inner-city laneways. According to the Council, they have identified a total of 72 lanes and arcades in the centre of Wellington that could be improved.…
Maddest March yet?
We’re now in March and as expected the transport madness is in full swing.
The annual battle for a spot on the bus has kicked off with commuters left standing in the rain waiting for a bus with room and journeys taking up to 1.5 hours.…
Auckland Conversation: ‘Changing Streets to Change the World’ 8 March
TB readers will likely be interested in the event. Skye is a Kiwi urban designer working with NACTO/Bloomberg Foundation in NYC. She is spearheading the development of a Global Street Design Guide. Registrations have closed but you can stream it live (or try your luck at the door??).…
TFUG: North-west
The third and final consultation on Transport for Future Urban Growth (TFUG) has kicked off today and this time it’s the turn of the North-west. The intention of this work is to start working out what major transport infrastructure is going to be needed to support around 110,000 houses on undeveloped land in three main areas on the edge of Auckland. …
Transport technologies – Part 3: Telling a different story
Introduction
In two previous posts (here and here) I have discussed some factors that seem likely to impact on the development of transport technologies. To sum up, these posts discussed: External factors that impact the development of new technologies, including land use patterns, public policy settings, and demographics; and
Economic factors that impact the uptake of different transport technologies, including economies of density, fixed/variable costs, and complements versus substitutes.…
Greenbay and Titirangi bus use soars with new network
In the latest Auckland Transport board report there was a mention of the success being seen on the new Titirangi/Greenbay routes which were the first ones implemented using the principles of the New Network AT are rolling out across the city.…
The consultation problem: Who submits on the plan? [Repost]
In light of the recent debate over whether the Unitary Plan hearings process is sufficiently democratic, this is an appropriate time to revisit a post I wrote last year on the demographics of consultation feedback. Essentially, local governments don’t hear from all their citizens equally – submissions are weighted towards older, whiter, and probably wealthier people.…
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