Green Metropolis – an interesting sounding book
One of the more annoying things about living in New Zealand is that most of the truly interesting urban planning and transportation books never make it to the shelves of our bookshops. However, thanks to Amazon, I do manage to find and buy interesting books every once in a while – even if it’s slightly annoying that the cost of shipping often ends up being similar to the cost of the book itself.…
3 Comments Weekly Roundup 23-January-2026
It’s Friday again, following a very wet few days. Our thoughts go out to all of the people impacted by the weather and flooding, as the growing impacts of climate change make themselves increasingly felt across the motu. This week in Greater Auckland On Tuesday Matt took a look at road deaths last year.…
Weekly Roundup 28-November-2025
Hope everyone enjoyed the sun this week. Here’s some stories on urbanism that caught our eye! This Week in Greater Auckland On Monday, Matt looked at the Public Transport ridership stats for 2025.
On Wednesday, Connor examined the conflicting views of the Mayor on the City Centre.…
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.…
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.…
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