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Free event reminder: Nicki Williams’ lunchtime talk today to mark #IWD2025
If you’re still making plans for 12.30-1.30pm today (Thursday 6 March) it’s not too late to join us online to listen to landscape architect and PhD student Nicki Williams introduce findings from her important research at Otago University
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#IWD2025 event: Insights on how diverse women experience moving around our towns and cities
To mark International Women’s Day 2025, the Urban Design Forum is proud to offer a lunch-time opportunity on Thursday 6 March 12:30pm – 1:30pm to collectively challenge our thinking on how women experience moving around our towns and cities. An online presentation
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A tribute to Donald Shoup (1938-2025)
With permission, Stuart Donovan, a Senior Fellow at Motu Research and urban economist, has allowed us to share this brief tribute he made on LinkedIn to Donald Shoup, an American engineer and professor in urban planning who died on 6 February.
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A starter menu of Conferences for 2025
Every year presents a smorgasbord of Conference events – here’s a taster of some of these for 2025. If you spot events that would be good to publicise to UDF followers please send an email to media@urbandesignforum.org.nz NZ
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Your reading list for 2025: Why not start with Innerland?
While not written specifically for urban designers or landscape architects, Matt Vance’s innerland: a journey through the everyday landscape of New Zealand – published by Potton & Burton in the last quarter of 2024 – offers thoughtfully surprising insights aplenty for both.
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Best wishes for the holiday season … and into the New Year!
Kia ora UDF members! The Urban Design Forum National Committee for 2024-2026 wishes all our members and supporters a Meri Kirihimete, peaceful holiday season and happy beginnings to another challenging and fulfilling year of urban design mahi ahead in 2025. The