Good urban design = good community Urban Design can do one of two things: it can either build a great community or it can create desolate spaces and NO … Continue reading Building Community Through Urban Design. Run Up to Next #TransformManukau Chapters
Framing goes up I was out yesterday afternoon doing a Public Life Survey in the Manukau City Centre area (measuring pedestrian and activity counts) and saw the latest update … Continue reading Manukau Bus Station Takes Shape #TransformManukau
Exciting news ahead Two pieces of exciting news for Transform Manukau. The first one you will have to wait until Friday to see what it is. But it does … Continue reading #TransformManukau News Coming Friday. Also Manukau Gets New Hotel
Poor project management Updated with response from Auckland Transport It seems again the Manukau Bus Station (the key lynch-pin to the South Auckland Bus Network) has been delayed … Continue reading Auckland Transport’s Manukau Bus Station Now Delayed Until 2018. UPDATED
Updated for Version 1.4.2 It took a couple of days but some 246 pages and around 24,500 words later the #TransformManukau Omnibus has been complied into a single PDF edition. … Continue reading UPDATED: The #TransformManukau Omnibus (Version 1.4.2)
Moving Manukau from a 9-5 economy to a full-time economy To support the wider Southern Auckland population lifting itself socio-economically its population need to be able to access high … Continue reading Walkable and Transit Orientated Environments – They Attract Jobs #Part 20 of the #TransformManukau Series
Turning a former State Highway into a human people space Earlier in the Transform Manukau series I did comment and provide an alternative to Manukau Station Road (see: #TransformManukau … Continue reading Manukau Station Road Humanising Therapy #Part 19 of the #TransformManukau Series
Have a look at the Interchange now under construction While I did post on the Manukau Bus Station just recently since then I asked Auckland Transport for some higher … Continue reading Manukau Bus Station High Resolution Renders
A good investment There is nothing worse than a great honking wide motorway (or in some cases a main rail line) severing a place in half disconnecting it from … Continue reading A Park Connecting Manukau to Manukau City Centre?
Much delayed bus station due to start construction Amongst the news of the new Deputy Mayor and the Chairs of the Committees being appointed did this piece come across … Continue reading Manukau Bus Station Construction Starts Next Week
Talking Southern Auckland 