Reclaiming our streets, storage is vs productivity New Zealand has gotten rid of Parking Minimums via the National Policy Statement – Urban Development. And the good news is no one … Continue reading Ben goes Planning Part 9.3. Housing Yield & Spatial Efficiency: A Development Impact Analysis of Modern Parking Policy
Auckland in attempting to manage its parking (and where it might go if implemented) Auckland Transport often (and rightfully) cops criticism with its policy creation and implementation. Parking Management is … Continue reading Ben goes Planning Part 9.2. The Evolution of Urban Space: Understanding the Tiered Parking Management System
The Great Parking Delusion Harms Us Parking, one of the greatest lightning rods if not lightning rod when it comes to Urban and Transport Planning, not matter what country you … Continue reading Ben goes Planning Part 9.1. The High Cost of Free Parking: Why Your Car Pays Cheaper Rent Than You Do
Best Practices Report for Developers and Architects to help deliver People First and Healthier Cities 1.0 Introduction: The Strategic Imperative of Active Design In an era of interconnected public health, … Continue reading A Ben Goes Planning Special: Active Design in Practice: A Best Practices Report for Developers and Architects
From the problem of speed, road design, healthier equitable streets, to active mode design Part 8 of the Ben goes Planning series ended up becoming a mini-series in of itself … Continue reading Ben goes Planning Part 8.5: Roundup of Designing that Healthier City so that is a People First City for Everyone
So you want a People First City? How do we design healthier city so that is a People First City? Our lives have become sedentary as we went from people … Continue reading Ben goes Planning Part 8.4: How to Design that Healthier City
A police person’s comments in 2015 are still unacceptable in 2026! As I was putting the rest of the Part 8.x of the Ben goes Planning Series, the AI generator … Continue reading Ben goes Planning Part 8.3: Designing the People-First City
Future Streets Initiative: A Phased Implementation Plan for Safer, More Liveable Public Spaces 1.0 Project Vision and Strategic Imperative This document outlines a phased implementation plan for the Future Streets … Continue reading Ben goes Planning Part 8.2: Reclaiming the Streets
How we can move Aotearoa from it car-centric past to a people-centric future As submissions for the Planning Bill are currently open, while the drafting of the Standardised Zones is … Continue reading Key Fundamentals in Aotearoa Planning Reform: Standardised Zones and Urban Transformation
Time to start reclaiming the streets for the people Executive Summary This document synthesizes the core principles and strategies for designing safer urban streets by focusing on speed management. The … Continue reading Ben goes Planning Part 7.2 – Why our Streets are Failing: Designing for Safer Speeds: A Synthesis of Key Principles and Strategies
Talking Southern Auckland 