Recapping the Urban Planning Operating System to support Design-Led Placemaking Last one before we dive into our design-led placemaking projects lets take one last recap. This recap being on the … Continue reading A Recap to the Aotearoa Urban Operating System: Building the Connected Region
We have been introduced to inter-city rail enabling transformation of our urban centres, now for a look into intra-city transit reinforcing those urban centres Before moving to our urban and … Continue reading Executive Summary: Airport to Botany (A2B) Rapid Transit and Urban Transformation
Short term, 3-year electoral thinking rather than 100-year generational thinking means we can not have nice stuff like intercity rail! Executive Summary This briefing document outlines a strategic shift for … Continue reading Briefing: Transforming New Zealand’s Transit: The Japanese Integrated Development Model
Intercity Rail Concept Waiting in the Wings for our Politics Just to Say Yes rather than our Culture of NO! Auckland is currently a city “imploding” under the weight of … Continue reading Why Auckland’s Transit Future Isn’t a “Bullet Train”—It’s a Japanese Blueprint
The National Policy Statement-Urban Development, and Standardised Zones might have the final say! The celebration from certain quarters in regards to Minister Chris Bishop apparently downgrading Plan Change 120 could … Continue reading PC120 Downgrade Not a Victory for NIMBYs as They Think It Was
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
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!
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
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
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
Talking Southern Auckland 