. QUESTION: How do we develop integrated systems thinking and industry-wide collaboration to deliver resilient and liveable built environments in Aotearoa? This question is core to the Integration theme at this week’s long-awaited UrbanismNZ conference in Auckland this Thursday/Friday 27-28 April, and will be explored at two dedicated sessions sponsored […]
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Planning for Sustainable Urban Mobility (SUM) Here’s a question for planners, designers, agencies, government decision-makers, kaupapa māori organisations, policy writers, and people managers working in the urban development industry: How serious are you about planning for low-income groups, people with limited mobility, and people with disabilities? If you’re serious about
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Suggestions from overseas are frequently dismissed as irrelevances. But let’s take a closer look. Here’s an experiment: Next time you’re talking about cities to a fellow Kiwi, try citing a mainstream urban planning idea from Europe and see how far you get. If you can make 30 seconds without the
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. The name Gehl is so synonymous with urban design, that it’s hard to conceive of the days when it was virtually unknown. Current-day Partner and Managing Director Henriette Vamberg – an opening panelist for UrbanismNZ 2023 in Auckland on 27 April – has been with Copenhagen based Gehl (pronounced
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. As keynote speaker for the upcoming UrbanismNZ 2023 conference on 27-28 April in Auckland, Griffith University academic Dr Tony Matthews will be focusing attention on intense events that cause severe social, environmental and economic impacts – what Tony calls “transformative stressors”. These shock-causing stressors have been incredibly profound –
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