Weekly Roundup – 13-Mar-20
It’s been another busy week with so many interesting articles I’m struggling to fit things in. Auckland Transport to buy only electric buses from now on
Some great news yesterday with Todd Niall reporting that new buses are likely to only be electric from now on.…
154 Comments The Human Right to Housing
All New Zealanders have the human right to adequate housing. It might be “the best kept secret” in the country, but this right has been endorsed by our governments for 70 years, and it’s one of the key pillars for Greater Auckland’s “20/20 Vision on Housing” series.…
Flashback Saturday: Stu Donovan on housing
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This ‘Flashback Saturday’ is a bit different from our usual, and as part of our “20/20 Vision on Housing” programme we’re doing a retrospective on ex-blogger Stu Donovan’s housing posts.
Stu is an economist and engineer, now living overseas.…
20/20 Vision on Housing
Over the years, Greater Auckland has become well-known for its work on transport. We’ve also published some fantastic articles on housing, but these have tended to be one-offs; we haven’t had a clear editorial direction on housing.*
In transport, we carved out a unique position saying constructive, evidence-based things that others in New Zealand weren’t saying, based on international best practise.…
Weekly Roundup 17-Jan-20
Here’s our weekly collection of smaller pieces. Housing Consents
Stats NZ announced this week that NZ as a whole had reached a 45-year high for new home consents.
“For the first time in 45 years, the annual number of new homes consented rose to over 37,000,” construction statistics manager Melissa McKenzie said.…
Flashback Saturday – Housing affordability and sprawl
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post was originally published in December 2011.
The good old ‘compact city’ versus ‘urban sprawl’ debate has been reignited – with a Productivity Commission report on Housing Affordability pointing the finger at land-use regulation as a major cause for reduced housing affordability over the past decade: particularly in Auckland.…
A History of Auckland’s urban form
Over the break while googling for something else I stumbled across this fascinating publication, titled A brief history of Auckland’s urban form 2019 by Leon Hoffman in the Council’s Research and Evaluation team. It had only been published days earlier on 19 December and as the name suggests, looks at the history of Auckland’s urban form.…
2020 – The year ahead
Welcome to 2020. Following my wrap up of 2019 last week I thought it would be good to look at some of the things we can expect to see in 2020. I think 2020 is very much going to be year where there’s lots of things going on but not necessarily a lot completed as projects race against the approaching timelines of 2021 when Auckland hosts the America’s Cup and APEC.…
2010s – A decade in Review
As we round out not only the year but also the decade, I’ve decided to join the ranks of end of decade reviews.
Thinking about the overall macro trend of the twenty tens, I think it’s one of Auckland starting to come of age as a city.…
Parks and Recreation
What is Council’s vision for our “destination” precincts? Planning to improve these areas for recreation, arts and culture, tourism and education needs to be consistent with the planning for the rest of the city. How should they be developed to ensure they are in line with our social, economic and environmental goals?…
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