Sunday reading 19 April 2015
Every week we read more than we can write about on the blog. To avoid letting good commentary and research fall by the wayside, we’re going to publish weekly excerpts from what we’ve been reading.
Bernard Hickey, “Opinion: A city unmoored“, Hive News:
…the Government and the Auckland Council have to consider more aggressive measures on both sides of the ledger, including supply and demand.…
27 Comments Auckland Conversations: Charles Montgomery
If you haven’t already added this to your calendar (and you’re in Auckland) then make sure you do so. Next week Charles Montgomery, the author of Happy City is in Auckland and will be holding an Auckland Conversations talk. Patrick wrote a review of the book last year.…
Sunday reading 15 March 2015
Every week we read more than we can write about on the blog. To avoid letting good commentary and research fall by the wayside, we’re going to publish weekly excerpts from what we’ve been reading.
From the London Review of Books, by John Lanchester: The Robots Are Coming.…
Postcard from South Africa #2 – Durban Beachfront
This post doesn’t really have anything to do with the first Postcard from South Africa post, but I should probably put a link in anyway. It has more to do with this post. Going to South Africa is all sorts of culture shock.…
Pohutukawa Saved
The roller-coaster ride that has been the fate of the six Pohutukawa at the St Lukes intersection came to a head yesterday at the Auckland Transport board meeting where a decision needed to be made one way or the other on their fate. …
Sunday reading 8 February 2015
Every week we read more than we can write about on the blog. To avoid letting good commentary and research fall by the wayside, we’re going to publish weekly excerpts from what we’ve been reading.
Jennifer Kent, “Higher-density living can make us healthier, but not on its own“, The Conversation:
There are potential health benefits associated with higher-density living, but these benefits depend on several other variables.…
Why the “Pohutukawa 6” has got people so passionate
Patrick’s post last week on the Western Springs Pohutukawas has easily been our most read post of the year so far and highlighted what seems to be a deeply held sense of outrage over Auckland Transport’s plans to remove these trees.…
Is New Zealand getting public transport right?
Increasingly, the answer is yes – although we certainly can’t rest on our laurels yet. Read on if you want to know how and why…
I recently read Paul Mees’ excellent book Transport for Suburbia, which argues that high-quality, useful public transport services can be provided even in the low to medium density cities of Australia and New Zealand.…
Is road funding a case of “survival of the un-fittest”?
In several recent posts I’ve taken a look at people’s revealed preferences for roads (nobody’s willing to pay directly for them) and public transport, walking, and cycling (people are queuing up to get on the train). In those posts, I’ve argued that observing how people vote with their feet (or their wallets) can teach us a lot about demand for different travel modes.…
The case for free-market urbanism
In the National Review, a conservative American magazine, Reihan Salam takes a look at the confused state of the American debate over intensification. His article, entitled “The Great Suburbia Debate” criticises the position taken by Joel Kotkin, a long-time campaigner for low-density suburban development.…
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