Latest
The water is coming. What should we do?
Coming down from the sky, and up from the oceans: lots more of it, soon, and forever after. Eating our roads and pipes, coming into our homes. So what should we do “yesterday already”, pronto, and in our future?
Read MoreLiveable streets: good change stings for some, and then it’s great
It was one of the UK’s most controversial liveable street retrofit initiatives (and they’ve had some biggies). Guest poster George Weeks looks at the story and results of Waltham Forest’s Mini-Holland. Part one of a two-part post
Read MoreThe Let’s Get Welly Riding Vision
Riding e-bikes and scooters is often the most affordable and quickest way to get around Wellington, but the lack of safe infrastructure has been blocking people from choosing these new vehicles. Here we lay out a plan to create space for them.
Read MoreLizarding and cockroaching around the city … Say what?
Eye of the Fish looks at the way we move and congregate in urban spaces…
Read MoreLet’s get out and play!
Kids being able to play outdoors is such an allround good thing that it should be protected as a right, and fought for with at least as much passion as, say, street carparking. The UK has just boosted street play – hooray!
Read MoreWays to pay for big infrastructure: mass transit edition
We’re used to paying for roads, prisons, rail, schools. Now Auckland and the government are figuring out how best to pay for the mass transit the city needs. Take note, Wellington! This is us too.
Read MoreLand, ownership and homes: The Good Citizen
Here’s some good news about innovative (!) ways people are addressing our housing crisis
Read MoreThe shape of our towns: new direction
Spread out or high-density? What shape should suburbs be? How best to give everyone good places to live? A new National Policy Statement aims to help… consultation is open
Read MoreRoad To Zero: submission guide LAST CHANCE TODAY WEDNESDAY!
Quick! The best ten minutes you’ll spend today – less death in our times!
Read MoreAccess for everyone: now that sounds good
A city that everyone can access and use equally? What a cracking idea!
Read More
