Change reflects evolving Auckland Targets on their way Today I will be at the Auckland Council Planning Committee watching the Councillors and Independent Maori Statutory Board ratify the Auckland … Continue reading The #AucklandPlan2050 – Tracked Changes and a Plan Looking Very Good (Submissions DO Work)
Many players try and a lot “fail” I caught an article about digital urban simulators not cutting the mustard floating through the Tweeters earlier this morning and decided to … Continue reading In Reply of “Gamespace Urbanism: City-Building Games and Radical Simulations” – Why #CitiesSkylines is a LOT More Complex Than You Think!
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DLC handles well with a few minor bugs Well one of those bugs is pretty major if I can not place down the International…
Apart from work (maybe) why shouldnt everything else be close to home In Auckland and even my Cities Skylines cities there is a tendency to struggle with building complete … Continue reading The Case for Complete LOCAL Neighbourhoods (Auckland Also Struggles at Planning for our Metropolitan Centres)
TRANSIT – build it not slash it Sydney is very much like Auckland in my opinion as an Urban Geographer. Both Cities are going rapid expansion and both Cities … Continue reading Parramatta’s Continued Rise as Sydney’s Second City Centre. Transit Also the Key for Less Well Off Areas. Lessons For Manukau and Auckland
What the Minister said Below is the released transcript from Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford to the recent Urbanism Conference held in Wellington on Monday and Tuesday. … Continue reading Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford’s Speech to the Recent Urbanism Conference. #letsdothis
Working with our edges in City Building One thing I have been critical of with Auckland and it’s planning is this fetish towards mono-centric planning. That is all focus … Continue reading Looking at Our Cities Differently: Interweaving our Green and Farms into the Urban Fabric
Pictures say a thousand words Two recent posts I did managed to flame some controversy. Nothing unusual as from time to time the blog does that in order to … Continue reading Why I Use #CitiesSkylines in my Urban Geography Posts?
Looking at inter-regional spatial planning Somewhat interestingly a job advertisement from a Government agency (okay it was NZTA) had me revisiting a previous post I wrote last year on … Continue reading Urban Geography: The Ultimate Expression in Inter Regional Spatial Planning, Developments and Behaviours
Need to sort out our structures The recent deaths of two pedestrians by a bus in Papatoetoe and the critical injuries a cyclist received while using the road in … Continue reading Urban Geography, Urban Planning, Urban Design and Engineering: We are in a Mess Folks
Talking Southern Auckland 