Guest Post: $1 billion Fletcher/Crown housing development — Christchurch CBD – Part 3
This is part three in a five part series of guest posts on the Christchurch rebuild from reader Brendon Harre. It first appeared on the Making Christchurch blog.
You can read Part 1 and Part 2
Part 3: Is the Fletcher/Crown development exploitative?…
11 Comments Guest Post: $1 billion Fletcher/Crown housing development — Christchurch CBD – Part 2
This is part two in a five part series of guest posts on the Christchurch rebuild from reader Brendon Harre. It first appeared on the Making Christchurch blog.
You can read Part 1 here.
Part 2. The Crown/Fletcher development within the context of the Christchurch rebuild and national economy
This is the hoped for Christchurch after the CBD is successfully developed.…
Guest Post: $1 billion Fletcher/Crown housing development — Christchurch CBD
This is part one in a five part series of guest posts on the Christchurch rebuild from reader Brendon Harre. It first appeared on the Making Christchurch blog
A case study of how our government approaches urban development.
The Christchurch post-earthquakes rebuild is peaking and construction activity will plateau for a while before tailing off.…
Inside the new Christchuch Bus Interchange
This is a guest post from Anthony McBride in Christchurch on the opening of the new bus interchange a few weeks back
One of the best news for a long time, for me, and I’m sure thousands of others as well, is the (partial) opening of the new Christchurch Bus Interchange…It was a freezing day for Christchurch with the temperature at 8am hovering about 0°C, but driving by the former temporary bus exchange, and into the modern bus interchange, was a really a bit of a moment of excitement, I actually heard some soft wows as we turn into the station, we parked into the tooth, and have the bus doors and sliding doors open, it was a sight of hustle and bustle.…
“Why economists tend to be in bad odour …” – Cycleways in Christchurch
In an 1879 essay, Francis Walker tried to explain “why economists tend to be in bad odour amongst real people.” Walker, who went on to become the first president of the American Economic Association, argued that it was partly because economists disregard “…the customs and beliefs that tie individuals to their occupations and locations and lead them to act in ways contrary to the predictions of economic theory.” …
Sunday reading 18 January 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.
Urban kchoze, “Prince Charles’ 10 Principles of of urbanism: typical example of what’s wrong with urbanists/architects“:
In a way, the true descendants of traditional cities aren’t the mummified European cities of Paris and London where all is done to maintain buildings and neighborhoods as they were in the early 20th century, but Japanese cities.…
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.…
Today is NZ Transit Upgrade Day
Well for Christchurch Bus and for Auckland Rail users it is. Christchurch is launching its New Bus Network today: PDF here. We are very keen to hear back from users about they think of this. In fact we’ed be very keen to run a guest post or two from interested PT users in Christchurch.…
Cycling: the benefits of complete networks
A group of New Zealand researchers recently published an excellent paper on the costs and benefits of investing in a complete cycle network and safe street design. Their paper, which is available online, found that:
the benefits of all the intervention policies outweighed the harms, between 6 and 24 times.…
Wellington and Christchurch Patronage
We keep a close eye on patronage in Auckland – which has been surging in recent months – but what’s happening with patronage in our other major cities? So in this post I’ll look at patronage in both Wellington and Christchurch.…
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