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The following posts are filed under: planning.
Toitū he Kāinga / Making Home
What is home? A roof maybe; but also a place for feeling safe, feeling you belong, that you can make your own. This event (Friday) is pretty timely, given “home” in our cities and Aotearoa-NZ right now…
Read MoreMoving the stuff so we can move better
Guest poster Derek experiences transport FOMO: he ponders whether Wellington is missing out on solving traffic woes by failing to consider alternative locations for major infrastructure such as Wellington Airport.
Read MoreEveryone’s job and no-one’s: regional planning in Wellington
Derek’s guest post has some pretty interesting ideas about moving stuff around in our region so things work better. It made us think: who’s actually in charge of figuring that out what goes where? There’s no Boss Baby but surely someone’s owning it…? Spoiler: nope.
Read MoreWriting the future by accident: Media and the Motorway
As we wait for Let’s Get Wellington Moving’s package to be announced, guest poster Tommo observes some patterns in local media discussion and gamely suppresses his conspiracy theories.
Read MoreNimbys, Bananas and beyond
Author Max Rashbrooke talks of beautiful neighbourhoods and challenges those who say no to the new.
Read MoreNewtown, new connections: a bike network* for the southern suburbs
Bike routes are on their way for South Wellington and through to the city centre (Newtown/Berhampore/Mt Cook), they won’t be shit, and with your support they could be great. (Don’t mention Island Bay, I did once but I think I got away with it.)
Read MoreStarting to get it right: Island Bay and the South
The Island Bay Cycleway’s influence on Wellington transport thinking, and public discourse, is really significant. (It helped give birth to Talk Wellington!) In an issue space that’s been rife with reckons, civic activation, politicising, good intentions, cockups and conspiracies, it’s an otter relief to know it’s really coming right.
Read MoreThe Low Cost of Ending the High Cost of Free Parking
Worldwide, what would you say is the single biggest thing that gets in the way of making streets better for people? Surely it’s cost? Maybe poor public engagement? Nope – it’s street parking. And it’s really, really hard to change. Stephen Davis of City Beautiful outlines how we’ve enshrined sacred cow status around storing your…
Read MoreCohousing: Part 3
In her final piece of the series, guest poster Biddy Livesey – housing policy analyst, researcher, and future resident of Cohaus – considers how cohousing is supported, and the specific planning challenge for an innovative collective housing development. This article was originally published on Greater Auckland, and is reproduced with permission.
Read MorePlaying with the Possibilities
Wellington kids have access to great playgrounds, with a brand new one about to be built for kids in the south. All the talk of new and improved play spaces has us pondering playground possibilities.
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