Photo of the Day: Vulcan Lane
Following on from this morning’s post on some of the central city Victorian streets I thought a little look back would be useful; so here is Vulcan Lane just before the City Council bravely excluded cars from it in 1968, as a result of a campaign by retailers in the area keen to improve its appeal as a shopping destination.…
5 Comments Downtown Shared Streets: Complete the Network
Polemic:
The existing central city Shared Streets are clearly an overwhelming success, particularly on the east side where they are starting to form a coherent network. The most recent addition, O’Connell St, has the advantage of connecting to the long-pedestrianised Vulcan Lane.…
Celebrating recent Auckland Cycling and Walking projects
This is a sort of ‘Photo of the Day’ post to follow Matt’s one this morning: The day in question being last Friday 30th of Jan. Thankfully I was able to get back to the city from work in the South Island just in time to ride to the Ministerial Cycleways Announcement on the abandoned CMJ off-ramp.…
Herald praises Shared Spaces
There’s a good editorial in the Herald today about how the shared spaces have been a success.
Big bold ideas that turn out badly receive plenty of critical attention, those that turn out well tend not to receive the attention they deserve.…
Stuart’s 100 #59: Missing from the City Centre Series: Street Kiosks
59: Missing from the City Centre Series: Street Kiosks What if there were flower sellers on Queen Street?
Our city centre is really starting to burgeon with pedestrian activity and public life through the day and well into the evening, seven days a week.…
Stuart’s 100 #56: More Dignity for Daily Users
56 More Dignity for Daily Users What if there was a moment of civic dignity outside the Auckland District Court?
The Auckland District Court on the corner of Albert and Kingston Streets is I think at last count the busiest courthouse in New Zealand.…
Stuart’s 100 #55: Broadening the place-making dialogue
55: Broadening the place-making dialogue What if the place-making could take care of itself?
Place-making as a term has become not only a ubiquitous mots du jour amongst those responsible for planning, designing and managing our cities but also an increasingly sophisticated and highly organised, controlled and managed city activity.…
Stuart’s 100 #51: La Rambla Reina?
51: La Rambla Reina? What if Queen Street could feel like Auckland’s answer to La Rambla?
Despite its tatty $2 shop reputation, Queen Street has been quietly undergoing a significant urban renaissance over the last seven or eight years. This dates back to the $40million plus streetscape upgrade which saw much of the on-street parking removed, all bus services except the Inner Link and Airbus relocated out, widening and decluttering of footpaths, new high quality flagstone paving, street furniture, lighting, the now signature nikau palms and not the least, the double-phasing of the much-loved Barne’s Dance crossings.…
O’Connell St shared space is wonderful, but
Over the weekend the latest shared space in the city was completed, on O’Connell Street. This joins the growing network of shared spaces with Lorne Street, Elliott St, Darby St, Fort St and the also recently completed Federal Street. I would argue that O’Connell Street is the best one yet.…
Ben Hamilton-Baillie/Auckland Shared Streets
This is an interesting video of Ben Hamilton-Baillie at the recent Congress for the New Urbanism conference (CNU22). Hamilton-Baillie one of the leaders of the progressive street design movement explains how the street delivers the purpose the city- economic exchange, social exchange, and cultural expression, or “money, sex and art” as he quotably sums it up. …
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