Flashback Saturday: Proximity and Integration (The Metropolitan Revolution)
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Kent was originally published in May 2014.
Our open, innovative economy increasingly craves proximity and extols integration, which allows knowledge to be transferred easily between, within, and across clusters, firms, workers and supporting institutions, thereby enabling the creation of new ideas that fuel even greater economic activity and growth.…
7 Comments Flashback Saturday: I want to be a super transport model
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Stu was first published in November 2015.
In Matt’s recent post about MoT’s work on the future of transport, there was an interesting little side-discussion about transport models, and in particular the travel demand forecasts which emerge therefrom.…
Flashback Saturday: Subsidies for Electric Vehicles – How do you like them lemons?
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Stu was originally published in May 2016.
Imagine, for a moment, that I was trying to sell you a bag of organic lemons. Now imagine that my bag of organic lemons costs 25 times the normal price.…
Flashback Saturday: Estimating the economic benefits of speeding up Auckland’s trains
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Stu was first published in January 2017.
Introduction
If you’ve been reading TransportBlog for a while, then you may have noticed that the term “dwell-times” crops up relatively frequently. The term describes the average time that trains are stopped at stations. …
Flashback Saturday: How transport policy affects location choice
Each weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Stu was first published in September 2017.
When we talk about transport, it’s natural for our minds to focus on moving people from A to B. That is, we tend to think about how to meet the demand for travel between locations, assuming that the demand for being in those locations is unaffected by the transport policies that we implement.…
Flashback Saturday: Alain Bertaud in Auckland
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Peter was originally published in September 2014.
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.…
Flashback Saturday: Downtown – Little Queen Street
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Patrick was originally published in June 2014.
This is a quick post on the Downtown site. Precinct Properties, the owner of the Mall and the two existing towers [Zurich Hse + HSBC Building] between Lower Queen St and Lower Albert St, are expected to lodge a resource consent in a couple of months for a total rebuild of this site.…
Flashback Saturday: Population-weighted densities in New Zealand and Australia
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Peter was originally published in September 2014.
Urban population density is a hot topic – some people complain that it’s getting too high in Auckland, while others worry that it’s too low to get the urban outcomes we want.…
Flashback Saturday: Want lower rates? Cut back on urban sprawl
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Kent was first published in October 2014.
Suburban sprawl is a radical, government-led re-engineering of society, one that artificially inverted millennia of accumulated wisdom and practice in building human habitats. Charles Marohn
In the recent article The Conservative Case Against the Suburbs Charles Marohn (@StrongTowns) takes on the awkward relationship between conservative Americans and cities.…
Flashback Saturday: How the AWHC is a waste of $5.3 billion
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was originally published in June 2014.
Last week there was some renewed debate over the merits of the Additional Waitemata Harbour Crossing (AWHC) project, due to former Local Government Minister Michael Bassett suggesting it should start nearly immediately and made a lot more sense than the City Rail Link.…
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