Auckland Council is planning for Unaffordability
Yesterday, Auckland Council revealed some of the work it has been doing in response to the National Policy Statement for Urban Development (NPS-UD), the government’s attempt to coerce councils into enabling more urban intensification, particularly up to 6 stories, around transit nodes to improve housing affordability.…
99 Comments 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..…
Low traffic life, the Amsterdam way
We hear a lot about the great cycling conditions in Amsterdam, for obvious reasons. When I spent a few months there in 2019, I found myself looking at the urban form around that bike lanes and found that the streets and buildings play their part in creating the city’s famous bike-friendly conditions.…
Weekly Roundup – 28-May-21
Here’s our round up for the week of smaller stories. Normanby Roundabout
Next Tuesday night the Normanby Rd rail crossing will close to traffic as part of the City Rail Link works so they can build a trench for the tracks to go in.…
Weekly Roundup – 07-May-20
Here’s our wrap up for the week. Queen St to Change
Good news yesterday afternoon, the group fighting to return Queen St to a car focused corridor failed in their bid to get an injunction on the improvement works.
Today’s High Court decision not to grant the injunction sought by Save the Queen Street Society means Auckland Council and Auckland Transport are able to proceed with planned improvements to the northern end of Queen Street between Customs and Shortland Streets.…
What if Landlords Built Hot New Things?
This is a guest post from reader Brendon Harré. It was originally posted on his Medium blog.
“We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us” – Winston Churchill Renting in New Zealand is bad — is how I have written about housing in the last few months.…
The Downtown Carpark – AT Created a Debacle
As Matt blogged recently, Council is considering redeveloping the Downtown Carpark. A delegation from Auckland Transport, Council and Panuku presented on the topic to the Council’s Planning Committee early this month.
Auckland Transport were woefully unprepared for the meeting. This transport proposal didn’t align with the City Centre Masterplan, the Auckland Climate Plan nor Auckland Transport’s own modeshift plan, Better Travel Choices.…
Weekly Roundup – 09-Apr-21
Here’s our wrap-up for the last few weeks Hydrogen Bus
Last week Auckland Transport unveiled New Zealand’s first hydrogen bus.
The bus was unveiled by the Minister of Transport Michael Wood and Mayor of Auckland Phil Goff at Ports of Auckland – where the bus will be refuelled with green hydrogen.…
The Housing Donut
Yesterday, the government announced an ambitious new plan, a grabbag of housing policies ranging from okay to highly laudable designed to lower the price of housing. However, this package is a donut: a tasty outer with a great big hole in the center…
The Problem
For decades, New Zealand has faced two major shifts in the general population: significant growth, and significant aging.…
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