Category: Urban Geography
The Waikato Municipal Spatial Code Book: A Test with AI and Planning
Prototype Test using Cities Skylines 2 creation gives interesting results thus far What happens when I let Notebook LLM design me a Planning Code manual using inputs from my Cities … Continue reading The Waikato Municipal Spatial Code Book: A Test with AI and Planning
Wellington Flash Floods Remind Us of Resilience from and using Green Infrastructure
Green Infrastructure not only boosts mental health and productivity, but also acts as natural defences for urban areas, especially in heatwaves and storms! News of Wellington receiving 77mm of rain … Continue reading Wellington Flash Floods Remind Us of Resilience from and using Green Infrastructure
The Use of AI in Planning, could and can it be done?
Do Large Language Models have a place in Planning, and can they be used in Planning? This is a cross-over post and will appear and and my Cities Skylines Blog, … Continue reading The Use of AI in Planning, could and can it be done?
Planning and Democracy: Presenting to the Environment Selection Committee on the Planning Bill
Once in a generation to input on Planning Regime deserves serious and critical response I take Planning seriously. I take Democracy as serious as well! So, when the opportunity to … Continue reading Planning and Democracy: Presenting to the Environment Selection Committee on the Planning Bill
A Recap to the Aotearoa Urban Operating System: Building the Connected Region
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
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!
Ben goes Planning Part 9.4. Parking and Placemaking: A Comparative Case Study of Urban Development in Tokyo and Manukau
Tokyo inspires what Manukau could be As the Parking mini-series continues on, we look to the urban and transit masters in Tokyo to assist the car centric Manukau City centre! … Continue reading Ben goes Planning Part 9.4. Parking and Placemaking: A Comparative Case Study of Urban Development in Tokyo and Manukau
Ben goes Planning Part 8.5: Roundup of Designing that Healthier City so that is a People First City for Everyone
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
Ben goes Planning Part 8.3: Designing the People-First 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
Talking Southern Auckland 