Liveable streets: good change stings for some, and then it’s great

by George Weeks

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

The Let’s Get Welly Riding Vision

by Oliver Bruce and Brett Skinner

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.

Lizarding and cockroaching around the city … Say what?

by Eye of the Fish

Eye of the Fish looks at the way we move and congregate in urban spaces…

Let’s get out and play!

by Kōrero te Upoko o te Ika

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!

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Eco-City done well could solve housing crisis. Part two of three.

Brendon Harre | April 4, 2019

In part two of three, guest poster Harre dishes up possibilities for the proposed Wellington Eco-City, how housing could be integrated with rapid transit and how houses can be built affordably.

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Getting more diverse views on housing

John Polkinghorne | November 7, 2018

Our mate John up in Auckland has been out and about getting input from different sectors to learn more about the housing crisis from their point of view.

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What the Heck Is Residential Intensification?

Talk Wellington | September 19, 2018

Pop quiz. Do you know what urban density is? Or what residential intensification means? They’re not the latest world-famous-in-Wellington drum ‘n’ bass DJs playing at an underground city basement club. It’s a bit more suburban than that.

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