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The following posts are filed under: intensification.
Better growing, everybody! Direction-setting in a messy environment
Greater Wellington is updating its Regional Policy Statement, with some bold direction-setting. It needs and deserves a general thumbs up from us the citizenry – do it by 5pm 14th!
Read MoreSuburbia is subsidised: here’s the maths
Fun fact: Inner-city areas are subsidising suburbs – to the tune of hundreds of millions every year. A great video lays out this big fact that’s hidden in plain sight.
Read MoreThe housing crisis: how we made it and how we fix it
An important report from Te Waihanga|The Infrastructure Commission shows that our current housing crisis wasn’t inevitable. Hear more from Te Waihanga’s own experts at the next Urbanerds this Tuesday!
Read MoreThe Missing Middle Mystery: housing detectives on the case!
A housing crisis is a great time to ask “where are all those other types of housing?”
Read MoreGetting denser better: NIMBYism and developers (dispatch from San Diego)
Worldwide, unreasonable neighbour resistance (“Not In My Backyard”) is one of the greatest hurdles to the land-use intensification that modern cities need to be sustainable, accessible, and liveable. Talk Wellington are looking at different ways to overcome it – here, profiling some progressive developers’ coalitions in San Diego, California.
Read MoreClimate change and intensification: Mandate for leadership! …now what?
Wellington region people have handed Wellington City Council a mandate on a platter to be strongly progressive and sustainable. Will we finally see some change?
Read MoreLet’s Get Wellington Moving 3: Planning For Our Future!* (*in goldfish years)
In our third of three substantive posts, Talk Wellington looks at Let’s Get Wellington Moving’s approach to moving Wellington’s imminently burgeoning population. First: some city transport basics. Then: LGWM… and goldfish time.
Read MoreIt’s gonna get intense!
Wellington is finally starting to acknowledge how badly it needs more intense development. Isabella hopes we don’t have to suffer a Welly version of Auckland’s toxicity to achieve a good balance of density. The Wellington City Mayor’s Housing Taskforce report is just out and it’s got some great stuff. While it misses an…
Read MoreFacing towards our water
Why do we love being near water? The best bits of Wellington’s towns bring people to water, and Riverlink is now turning Lower Hutt’s face to Te Awa Kairangi. The Hutt River, Te Awa Kairangi, has been engineered hard over the last century to reduce the frequency of flooding (and massively raising the stakes). Despite…
Read MoreNew life in old buildings
Conversions of old commercial buildings to apartments are picking up pace. But are developers building for the future, or the present? Recently this popped up over at Eyeofthefish: There’s more of this going on now, thankfully, given our painfully tight residential property market. Two examples beyond the Wellington CBD are Post Offices:…
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