Category: Urban Planning and Design

Looking at Urban Planning and Design

Growth Ponzi Scheme + We Are Too Inefficient as a Nation

June 21, 2016 ·

Ponzi Scheme threatens NZ Also housing crisis shows we are to inefficient as a nation Live in New Zealand long enough and you come to realise that road works … Continue reading Growth Ponzi Scheme + We Are Too Inefficient as a Nation

Including Parking MAXIMUMS Parking and for planners and communities alike parking minimums. The two very things more likely to polarise a city in a debate than putting in a … Continue reading Parking: Strong Towns Demonstrate some Fallacies With Parking

June 13, 2016 ·

Great South Road and Lambie Drive Axis need humanising In the past the thinking on doing urban renewal in Manukau has been focused on the east-west transport axis of: … Continue reading #TransformManukau – North/South Axis Connecting Manukau. Part 17 of the Manukau City Centre – The Transform Series

Situation in USA same here The following beginning of an article on what is effectively institutionalised racism in housing in the USA could be very easily translated to Auckland … Continue reading Institutionalised Racism via White NIMBYism Creates Housing Disparity

I say Auckland does too Transit-Orientated Developments or TODs for short follow the basic premise of a cluster of development (whether single or mixed use) around a Rapid Transit … Continue reading Americans Want More Transit-Orientated Development

Turning our suburbs into high amenity areas We can get hung up on master planning a brand new Greenfield sub division but forget about our existing suburban areas that … Continue reading Retrofitting for Better Suburbs – Analysis Needed in Auckland

Also comments from Deputy Mayor, and Mayoral Candidates Mark Thomas and Phil Goff UPDATE: Includes material from Dr Larry Murphy of the University of Auckland to the Unitary Plan … Continue reading Urban Development Capacity or Urban Growth? Why the National Policy Statement Misses the Mark. UPDATED

June 2, 2016 ·

National Policy Statement confirms what is already being done I knew with this weak Government for the last eight years not to expect much with a National Policy Statement … Continue reading Government’s Weak Willed Attempt at National Policy Statement Does Things We Can Already Do #AKLPols

Deja vu moment as Elected Representatives realise human element missing from planning Reading the following statement from Auckland Council below it seems our Councillors and for that matter our … Continue reading Councillors Realise Social Response needed for Auckland’s Growth 5 Years Late #AKLPols

Ronwood Avenue to Cavendish Drive sector proves challenging The section of Manukau City Centre that spans from Ronwood Avenue up through Cavendish Drive and Ryan Place (otherwise … Continue reading #TransformManukau – What to do with the North. Part 16 of the Manukau City Centre – The Transform Series