How the Unitec Development could be delivered? We hear from an Urban Designer who has worked on the site before How will the government’s Kiwibuild plans in Mt Albert … Continue reading The Unitec Carrington development: Smart urban enclave or ‘slum?’
Do not forget to have your say After a month the Auckland Council Have Your Say on the Long Term Plan, and the Auckland Plan 2050 will draw to … Continue reading #AucklandPlan2050 – Had My Say: In General Support But Plan Lacks Targets
Development has potential yield of 4,000 homes And so that Isthmus site that has been rumoured at for the last wee while is finally confirmed: 4,000 new homes at … Continue reading Mt Albert Unitec Housing Project Formally Launches KiwiBuild
Example Given, Now need more! From The Spinoff: The team behind the Daisy apartment building respond to the fury it unleashed from Mike Hosking. Daisy exists because Ockham Residential … Continue reading The Daisy apartments: why did we do it?
Inter-Regional Planning Last year I gave a guest lecture to Geography and Environmental Planning students at the University of Waikato on the topic of inter-regional planning between Auckland, the … Continue reading Upper North Island Needs its Version of an Auckland (Spatial) Plan
Must be smarter as traditional methods are failing us As Auckland continues to boom the City is continuing to fail to keep up with the housing demand needed by … Continue reading Prefab Housing and Automation Key to Building Housing in Auckland
MAYOR, MINISTERS AND INDUSTRY UNITE TO BUILD MORE HOUSES IN AUCKLAND From the Office of the Mayor Phil Goff MAYOR, MINISTERS AND INDUSTRY UNITE TO BUILD MORE HOUSES IN … Continue reading Mayoral Taskforce Reconvenes to Advance Housing
Where is the action I see yet another housing taskforce has been set up to solve the housing crisis. From Radio New Zealand: Auckland crisis working group seeks fix … Continue reading More Chit Chat: Another Housing Taskforce Gathers to Solve Auckland’s Housing Crisis…
Rethinking our low and medium density suburbs This appeared originally at LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/urban-design-geography-green-utility-vs-city-budget-ben-ross/ Cities Skylines (the urban simulator from Paradox – Colossal Order) has from time to time provided … Continue reading Urban Design, Urban geography and Green utility vs the City Budget. A #CitiesSkylines Lesson
Some picks for 2018 If 2017 was the year change was going to sweep through (#SummerSeries 17/18 – The Year That Was 2017) then 2018 will be the year of … Continue reading #SummerSeries 17/18 – What Lies Ahead in 2018
Talking Southern Auckland 