Papakāinga and the future of housing on Whenua Māori
This is a guest post by Hope Puriri. Hope’s whakapapa is Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua Ōrakei, Ngāti Awa and Tūhoe. She is a spatial designer at Matakohe Architecture + Urbanism in Whangārei.
Featured image from Matakohe Architecture + Urbanism.
He aha te hau e wawa rā, e wawa rā?…
9 Comments Urban Playground: the child-friendly city
This is a guest post by Alex Bonham. Alex is doing a doctorate on play and the city at the University of Auckland and has a book on the subject coming out on the 13th of July. She is also Deputy Chair of the Waitematā Local Board.…
Don’t stop at the kerb: why Tactical Urbanism should pull infrastructure apart
This is a guest post by Charlotte Billing. Charlotte is a place strategist at Place Creative.
Learning through doing
Tactical urbanism is often perceived in terms of its outputs, wider kerbs, temporary crossings, polka-dot walkways – when in fact it’s a process, one that allows us to imagine how our neighbourhoods could be if they adapted to us.…
Mode Shift and Meaningful Climate Action: A Case Study
This is a guest post by Jessica Rose. Jessica is a member of the Whau Local Board, a sustainable transport advocate, and co-chair of Frocks on Bikes Auckland. The exquisite corpse approach to city-building?
It’s critical that low carbon transport becomes the easy and obvious choice for most people within the next 10 years.…
Still Alone Together: post-lockdown loneliness in Aotearoa and its implications for urban design
This is a guest post by Holly Walker, Deputy Director and WSP Fellow at The Helen Clark Foundation, an independent public policy think tank based at AUT. Holly is the author of two major reports about loneliness in Aotearoa following Covid-19..…
DeafScape
This is a guest post by Camilla Payne. Camilla is an Urban Planning student at the University of Auckland.
In my life, I walk with my feet split between two worlds. One hearing world and one deaf. Sometimes I identify myself as deaf.…
Learning From Europe’s New Urban Politics
This is a guest post by Tatjana Buklijas. Tatjana is Associate Director in Koi Tū Centre for Informed Futures and Senior Lecturer in Global Studies at The University of Auckland.
I started to think about writing this piece during the last few months, as I was reading the news from Zagreb, the capital city of my home country, Croatia.…
The rise of the urban light truck: what to do about it?
This is a Guest Post by Dr. Kirsty Wild, a Senior Research Fellow in the field of Population Health at the University of Auckland.
The problem barely requires articulation: just at a time when we are adopting Vision Zero in our cities and trying to carve out space for slower, safer transport modes, that space is being filled up by light trucks – double cab utes and SUVs.…
Establishing a Carbon Neutral Government Programme
Featured image: ÖBB Nightjet, image from Lucas via Wikipedia (Creative Commons)
This is a guest post by Paul Callister.
In March 2021 the government released the cabinet paper Leading the way: Establishing a Carbon Neutral Government Programme. The paper states that the government “must show leadership to reduce its own emissions, in order to demonstrate what is possible to other sectors in the New Zealand economy.”…
Using Streets Differently (Sometimes)
This is a guest post written by Ella Kay. I’ve happened across a few streets recently in Berlin that seem to be effortlessly filled with kids playing around and folks hanging out. These vibrant blocks (not longer than a few hundred metres) seem to appear out of nowhere – sporadically and without much warning.…
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