2024 – A Year in Review
Well, it’s the last day of the year, so it’s time for a quick wrap-up of the most important things that happened in 2024 for urbanism and transport in our city. A huge thank you to everyone who has visited the blog and supported us in our mission to make a greater Tāmaki Makaurau.…
46 Comments What if Instagram girlies planned Auckland?
Go to Instagram. Search posts tagged with Auckland. You’ll be flooded with: photos of the Skytower
photos taken from the top of Mt Eden
photos of the Skytower taken from the top of Mt Eden. So it shouldn’t be surprising that the residents of Tāmaki Makaurau deeply value our maunga.…
Is the Isthmus becoming a retirement village?
We’re continuing to look at the recently released census results. A few weeks ago I looked at how travel to work and education had changed and John looked at how our cities have grown over the last 130 years. Today I wanted to look some of that growth in a little more detail.…
Let your city flourish: mixing it up with mixed-use
This is a guest post by Malcolm McCracken. It previously appeared on his blog Better Things Are Possible and is shared by kind permission. Do you get excited when a new business comes to your neighbourhood? Perhaps it’s a new coffee shop, a takeaway restaurant, a dairy (“convenience store”, for international readers), a flower shop or a bar.…
Which zones enable the most apartment projects?
Auckland desperately needs housing, and apartments provide crucial options for housing in accessible, high demand areas. Greater Auckland is actively working to enable apartments in more parts of the city, as a member of the Coalition for More Homes.
Tamba Carleton is a Director in CBRE’s New Zealand research team.…
Going for Housing Growth: Filling the housing donut?
Hot take: it should be affordable to live in Auckland.
You may not be surprised to learn I’m not the only one with this hot take. Indeed, the Minister of Housing recently took the notable step of saying house prices should come down, something common wisdom says should be a politically toxic thing to proclaim out loud.…
Building better housing insights
This is a guest post by Meredith Dale, senior urban designer and strategist at The Urban Advisory.
There’s a saying that goes something like: ‘what you measure is what you value’.
An RNZ article last week claimed that Auckland was ‘hurting’ because of a more affordable supply of homes, particularly townhouses and apartments within the urban areas.…
In Defence of Kāinga Ora
Given the headlines around the recent findings of the ‘independent’ review of Kāinga Ora by Bill English, you might assume this post will be about social housing, Kāinga Ora’s most prominent role. While that is indeed something that requires defending, I want to talk about the other core purpose of Kāinga Ora – its role as an Urban Development Authority (UDA).…
Texas Lessons
This is a guest post by Oscar Simms who is a housing activist, volunteer for the Coalition for More Homes, and was the Labour Party candidate for Auckland Central at the last election.
Austin feels like a city on the move.…
Weekly Roundup 8-September-2023
Welcome to Friday The week in Greater Auckland On Monday we ran a guest post from Malcolm McCracken about the Carrington (Unitec) Development.
On Wednesday Matt looked at the draft Government Policy Statement on Land Transport, which is also effectively Labour’s election policy.…
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