Weekly Roundup 20-December-2024
Twas the Friday before Christmas and all through the week we’ve been collecting stories for our final roundup of the year.
As we start to wind down for the year we hope you all have a safe and happy Christmas and new year.…
25 Comments Weekly Roundup 19-August-2022
Koanga (spring) might be just around the corner but a stormy winter is hanging on with both hands across the motu this week. Header image this week from a New Yorker cover by Jean-Jacques Sempé. The week in Greater Auckland
Monday’s post was about Parliament’s announcement of an inquiry into the future of inter-regional passenger rail.…
Sunday reading 29 April 2018
Welcome back to Sunday Reading. These posts are now irregular, but hopefully still interesting. I’ll start off here with a bit of disappointing news from California where State Representative Scott Wiener’s housing bill was killed.
Benjamin Schneider, “YIMBYs Defeated as California’s Transit Density Bill Stalls“, CityLab.…
Sunday reading 18 December 2016
Hi, and welcome back to Sunday Reading. Here is a collection of stories I found interesting over the week. Please add your links in the comments below.
I’m a big fan of “unbuilt” city plans and designs. Part of the fascination is living in the time period that forms the basis for the idea.…
Guest Post: Rail and the City
*This is a guest post by regular reader and occasional contributor, Warren Sanderson. Book Review
RAIL AND THE CITY – Shrinking Our Carbon Footprint While Reimagining Urban Space
Roxanne Warren
Unlike Paul Mees‘ book ‘Transport for Suburbia’ which deals in depth, among other things, with what went so terribly wrong with Auckland’s transport planning in the second half of last century, Roxanne Warren does not mention New Zealand once.…
Read This: Transport for Suburbia – Beyond the Automobile Age
This is a guest post from reader Warren S
Back on 7 January Kent Lundberg posted a comprehensive review of Jeff Speck’s ‘Walkable City’ a most companionable book which manages to be highly informative and highly entertaining at the same time.…
Thoughts from “How Cities Work: suburbs, sprawl and the roads not taken”
There have been so many excellent books about transport and planning come out in recent times: perhaps with Straphanger and Human Transit the two most exciting books for 2012 in that respect (at least in my opinion). But the book I’ve been reading recently is a little older, first published in 2000 – called “How Cities Work: suburbs, sprawl and the roads not taken” by Alex Marshall.…
Accessibility vs Mobility
Accessibility and mobility are two quite interesting terms that get thrown around a lot when it comes to transport planning. Humantransit has an excellent post quite recently on the pitfalls of trying to analyse public transport projects as if they were roading projects.…
Weekly Roundup 12-December-2025
We’re now less than two weeks until Christmas Day, can you believe it? Our second-to-last roundup of the year, featuring stories that caught our eye this week.
Today’s header image is Canada St, courtesy of Jolisa. This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt looked at topics for Council’s inaugural meeting of the Transport and Infrastructure Delivery Committee, including higher public transport fares
On Tuesday, Patrick explored a specific example of how local control of local streets could be good, actually
On Wednesday, Connor broke the news that AT is looking to re-open Queen St to all-comers overnight (and launched a quick campaign to restore sanity)
And on Thursday, Tim asked if the current state of Lightpath is a metaphor for the state of Auckland in general.…
Weekly Roundup 5-December-2025
Ho ho how is it December already?! Welcome to the end of another week, and another roundup of stories that caught our eye in the realm of transport, urbanism, and opportunities to make our little city that little bit greater…
This week’s header image (taken by Jolisa) shows the city after Wednesday’s storm, as seen from Coyle Park, in a Christmassy colour scheme.…
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