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
We have the Law, we have the National Spatial Plan, now for the Regional Spatial Plan In the previous post we met; Maia, Tane, Alex, and Kahu. The four characters … Continue reading Time for that 30-Year Regional Spatial Plan
From Planning Legislative Theory, to Actual Design Place-Led Placemaking! With my submission for the Planning Bill now with the Environment Select Committee (My Submission to the New Zealand Planning Bill … Continue reading Introducing our Design-Led Placemaking: Ambassadors Maia, Tane, Kahu and Alex
Continuing from Legislative Theory to on-the-ground Design-Led Placemaking Situation: Look out your window and be honest: you are looking at a design failure. For most of us, the street below … Continue reading The Urban Upgrade: 5 Radical Truths Hidden in the Future of Our Cities
Moving from Legislative Theory to Design-Led Practice on the Ground For decades, our cities have been designed as “dormitory suburbs”—monolithic zones that function merely as storage for people and cars. … Continue reading The Urban Operating System: 5 Surprising Ways Aotearoa is Rewriting the Rules of the City
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
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
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
Time to face the Truths About Our Streets Introduction: The Invisible Architecture of Our Daily Commute Have you ever felt a surge of anxiety stepping off a curb to cross … Continue reading Ben goes Planning Part 7.1 – Why our Streets are Failing: More Lanes, More Danger: 5 Counter-Intuitive Truths About Our Streets
Reconnecting the lost art (and science) of city, town and community building! With all the chatter about housing, housing shortfalls, loneliness, and resistance to brownfield developments (intensification), it could be … Continue reading The Missing Middle: Enabling the Complete Package, including those Universal Connections!
Talking Southern Auckland 