Flashback Sunday – Isolated in the quarter-acre pavlova paradise?
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Peter was originally published in June 2015.
The other week, the NZ Herald reported on some new research into Kiwis’ sense of social connectedness. The results, unfortunately, are fairly dismal:
New research has found that New Zealanders are losing touch with their neighbours – and it’s affecting our wellbeing.…
19 Comments Flashback Saturday: Driverless cars – What about the Pedestrians?
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in June 2015.
An interesting article on Citylab highlights something I’ve been saying for a while when it comes to the hype around driverless cars – what about the pedestrians?…
Flashback Saturday: Airport Rapid Transit isn’t really about the Airport
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in October 2017.
The idea of providing Airport rail through a short spur from Puhinui is one of those ideas that continues to pop up. It emerged again in an opinion piece the NZ Herald ran just over a week ago (which was oddly a repeat of a piece they ran exactly a month earlier).…
Flashback Saturday: The cost of space (for cars)
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Peter was first published in June 2015.
Earlier this month, urban policy researcher Todd Litman published a useful summary of some of his new research into the cost of sprawl:
Our analysis indicates that by increasing the distances between homes, businesses, services and jobs, sprawl raises the cost of providing infrastructure and public services by 10-40 percent.…
Flashback Saturday: What is Auto-Dependency?
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in January 2014.
In my post on Wednesday about the impact that garages have on neighbourhoods there ended up being quite a bit of discussion on the term auto-dependency.…
Flashback Saturday: Transport’s not a left/right political issue
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in January 2014.
As I discussed yesterday the debate on big urban issues of housing and transport far too frequently descends into left/right debates and today I’m looking at transport.…
Flashback Sunday: Does building roads harm the economy?
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in January 2014.
Most proposals to build new roads or widen existing ones seem to boil down to an ultimate belief that it will “help the economy”.…
Flashback Saturday: In Praise of City Trees
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Patrick was first published in October 2012.
It’s Spring! And in many places the city is looking its best, especially some of the recently upgraded places. Also some of our old friends are coming back to life too.…
Flashback Saturday: The pitfalls of “multi-modal” projects
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was first published in October 2012.
A previous post by Patrick highlighted his concerns about the phrase “multi-modal”, something that I want to explore further. Patrick’s general argument is that we “talk the good talk” about multi-modalism (is that even a word?) but in reality what we have built over and over again is “mono-modalism”.…
Flashback Saturday: The Other Great Transit Dividend
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Patrick was originally published in October 2012.
We know that for cities clever investments in Transit systems are the best way to keep their road system working efficiently. By adding additional capacity for movements of people these complimentary systems can save us all multiple billions of dollars in deferred or unnecessary additional roading projects.…
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