Sunday reading 24 July 2016
Welcome to Sunday Reading. I’m phoning in here from Brisbane. On Friday Patrick and Matt gave a talk about urban advocacy and the role of the Blog to a local planning firm Buckley Vann. We’ve enjoyed being able to connect with Greg Vann on several occasions both in Brisbane and Auckland.…
13 Comments Sunday reading 10 July 2016
Welcome back to Sunday Reading. Here’s a collection of articles I hope you find interesting. Please add yours in the comment section.
Anton Babadjanov, “The Supply And Demand Of Street Space“, The Urbanist. Here’s a nice compilation of the spatial capacity of various modes.…
Auckland Conversations: The Future of Housing in Auckland
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Sunday reading 12 June 2016
Welcome back to Sunday Reading. Here’s a collection of interesting articles/links I’ve comes across over the last week. Please post your links in the comments section.
In most growing, dense cities, housing affordability is becoming as serious economic concern. Conor Sen of WinkBlog calls it the “The biggest business story of the next five years“.…
Sunday reading 29 May 2016
Welcome back to this week’s Sunday Reading. Here’s one of those patterns that is difficult to imagine if you think that the future will just be an extension of the past. The rise of single households, delay in conventional romantic household formation, and economic challenges of younger people will have a big impact on the shape of cities.…
Sunday reading 15 May 2016
Hi, and welcome back to Sunday reading. Starting off here is an interview with one of my favourite urban observers, Christoper Hawthorne with the Los Angeles Times. Hawthorne has been actively documenting the transformation Los Angeles has been going through over the last decade.…
Sunday reading 1 May 2016
Welcome back to Sunday reading. As a reminder, the K Road Open Streets event is happening today from noon through 7pm. It sounds like a great opportunity for some premeditated city fun.
Here’s Patrick Sisson’s long read take on the state of transportation investment in American cities.…
Sunday reading 17 April 2016
Good morning and welcome back to Sunday Reading. Here are a bunch of links I found interesting over the last week. Please share your own links and thoughts in the comments below. Harbour Tunnel project in #Copenhagen rears its ugly head again.…
Is SH20 (WRR) flooding the isthmus with traffic?
Commuting around the city has been intense lately. I generally avoid most of the drama since I ride a bike. From Balmoral I take Dominion Road to the City Centre and on most days at 10kph I’m moving faster than the cars.…
Auckland Conversation: Joe Minicozzi Thursday 7 April
Here’s a reminder of the upcoming Auckland Conversation featuring Joe Minicozzi from the States. Joe’s work has inspired a bunch of blog posts over the last few years including: The high cost of low rise, Urbanism dividend: return on rates, and Proximity and Integration: (The Metropolitan Revolution).…
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