Debunking Leafy Suburban Myths
This is a guest post by Francis McRae. It was originally published on his Substack.
The recently announced bipartisan housing enabling bill will free up planning rules to allow three storey development across almost all of the existing residential areas of New Zealand’s five biggest cities. …
119 Comments Students Reinventing Northcote
This is a guest post by Sam Duncan, an Urban Development student at Queensland University of Technology. Sam grew up in Auckland.
Recently, the results of the C40 Students Reinventing Cities competition were released. In the competition, student-led teams each selected one site out of a collection from 18 cities across the globe.…
September-21 Board Meeting
Today the Auckland Transport board meet again and here are the highlights from their board reports. You can also watch the open session of the meeting live between 9am to 9:55am if you want via this Microsoft Teams link. Closed Agenda
Below are the items from the closed agenda that caught my attention the most.…
Puhinui Reopens
On Saturday the new $69 million Puhinui Station was opened by Transport Minister Michael Wood and Mayor Phil Goff. The official opening was followed by a public open day which saw a large number of people turning up to take a look at the station.…
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.
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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 State of the Nation’s Houses
Auckland has a housing shortage.
Everybody likes houses. Everybody understands that everybody needs to be housed. Nobody wants people to be homeless, or even overcrowded.
People typically choose to live in a neighbourhood because they like that neighbourhood as it is.…
Weekly Roundup – 27-Nov-20
Here’s our weekly roundup Eastern Busway Bridge
Seven Sharp ran a neat story on the new busway bridge that’s being built over the Tamaki River as part of the Eastern Busway. City Rail Link Updates
With construction well underway the City Rail Link team continue to put out lots of updates and information.…
What the model says about decarbonising transport
Good progress on the Auckland Climate Plan: the Auckland Forecasting Centre and Auckland Transport are exploring how to change our transport system to achieve the necessary drop in emissions by 2030.
We had a first glimpse of their thinking at last week’s Business and Climate Change conference in Auckland.…
Forming Policy on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
On Monday, Stuff published an article by Holly Walker, on low traffic neighbourhoods and their importance in the New Zealand context. Holly is from the Helen Clark Foundation, an independent public policy think tank, and today, she is releasing “The Shared Path,” a report on the subject by the foundation and WSP New Zealand.…
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