AV’s and their consequences on the Urban Geography environment There has been a lot of chatter around how Autonomous Vehicles could help out congested cities. This concept needs a … Continue reading Autonomous Vehicles, Transit, The City and Urban Geography. An Urban Geographer’s Look
Lessons for Auckland as we are in the EXACT same boat “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” — Dr. … Continue reading Weekend Reading: Why the Vancouver Transit Referendum Was Savaged
Focus on Quality As Auckland continues to evolve and intensify the City will be met with new challenges; the biggest being livability. This editorial from the Vancouver Sun … Continue reading Liveability in a Growing City – A MUST
Continued Inspiration to Develop a 21st Century Manukau After the Developing a 21st Century Auckland and Manukau Presentation to the Auckland Development Committee last Thursday in which some successful … Continue reading Continuing to Develop a 21st Century Manukau
Manukau’s 21st Century Development Part of the “Looking at Developing a 21st Century Auckland” Series At the moment I have zoned in on Manukau as the centre point of … Continue reading Manukau’s 21st Century Development
Talking Auckland Series – 21st Urban Design Through until the end of the year I will be running a series on “Looking at Developing a 21st Century Auckland.” Brent … Continue reading Coming Up – Looking at Developing a 21st Century Auckland
Another video from All About Auckland, this time in regards to the Unitary Plan. Check the interview with Dr McAfee on “Vancouver City Plan Done By Lunchtime – Dr Ann McAfee.” Note the governance differences between Vancouver and Auckland as well as the maturity from Vancouver politicians to pause their planning discussions during an election cycle. Something I don’t think we can count on here much with Auckland and the Unitary Plan?
While again I did take notes myself I did notice Dr McAfee’s reference to those aged between 20-29 need to have a near if not critical importance in the role, discussion, and formation of the Unitary Plan. Something I have been doing very extensively with the Unitary Plan thus far as seen in these two examples:
But check the video out none the less as it is really informative
BR:AKL: Bring Well Managed Progress
The Unitary Plan: Bringing Change
Auckland: 2013 – OUR CITY, OUR CALL
Talking Southern Auckland 