We have the Law, we have the National Spatial Plan, now for the Regional Spatial Plan In the previous post we met; Maia, Tane, Alex, and Kahu. The four characters … Continue reading Time for that 30-Year Regional Spatial Plan
Interacting with Planning: Those Standardised Zones!
Where Planning Policy meets the end-user, aka YOU! With my submission on the Planning Bill now with the Environment Select Committee, I am moving focus from Planning Theory to boots … Continue reading Interacting with Planning: Those Standardised Zones!
Introducing our Design-Led Placemaking: Ambassadors Maia, Tane, Kahu and Alex
From Planning Legislative Theory, to Actual Design Place-Led Placemaking! With my submission for the Planning Bill now with the Environment Select Committee (My Submission to the New Zealand Planning Bill … Continue reading Introducing our Design-Led Placemaking: Ambassadors Maia, Tane, Kahu and Alex
The Urban Upgrade: 5 Radical Truths Hidden in the Future of Our Cities
Continuing from Legislative Theory to on-the-ground Design-Led Placemaking Situation: Look out your window and be honest: you are looking at a design failure. For most of us, the street below … Continue reading The Urban Upgrade: 5 Radical Truths Hidden in the Future of Our Cities
The Urban Operating System: 5 Surprising Ways Aotearoa is Rewriting the Rules of the City
Moving from Legislative Theory to Design-Led Practice on the Ground For decades, our cities have been designed as “dormitory suburbs”—monolithic zones that function merely as storage for people and cars. … Continue reading The Urban Operating System: 5 Surprising Ways Aotearoa is Rewriting the Rules of the City
My Submission to the New Zealand Planning Bill – 2026
Rewrite of large parts of the Bill as Public Domain goes Missing in Private Property Frenzy DONE! After five weeks and 171 pages later, I have completed my submission to … Continue reading My Submission to the New Zealand Planning Bill – 2026
Strategic Analysis of my Aotearoa Planning Bill 2025 Submission, and the Japanese Hydraulic Model
Submission Highlights Context as per my opening remarks in my main submission: The basic premise of my submission is doing what Minister Bishop has stated more than once, to emulate … Continue reading Strategic Analysis of my Aotearoa Planning Bill 2025 Submission, and the Japanese Hydraulic Model
Briefing: Aotearoa Planning Bill 2025 – A Strategic Framework for Urban Resilience and Economic Productivity
A Briefing on using a Public Welfare based Planning Act that still better enables the Private Sector Context as per my opening remarks in my main submission: The basic premise … Continue reading Briefing: Aotearoa Planning Bill 2025 – A Strategic Framework for Urban Resilience and Economic Productivity
Why a 50-Year-Old Japanese Law is the Secret to Fixing Our Modern Housing Crisis
Looking Backwards to Propel Forwards in our Planning Future This blog post provides a high level wrap up of what would happen if Public Welfare Supreme was adopted into the … Continue reading Why a 50-Year-Old Japanese Law is the Secret to Fixing Our Modern Housing Crisis
Public Welfare Supreme: an Introduction to the Concept that should guide the Planning Act
What is Public Welfare Supreme and why is it the cornerstone of my submission My submission which I will be sharing into the blog as a series will make mention … Continue reading Public Welfare Supreme: an Introduction to the Concept that should guide the Planning Act
Talking Southern Auckland 