This week (30 November – 2 December) the University of Auckland’s School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics has been hosting an international conference themed as “Re-imagining the City: Legacies, Challenges, Possibilities”. Areas of interest posed when this under-publicised event was being planned included: To what extent can we conceive of […]
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UDF AGM Guest Speaker COMMUNITY BASED PARTICIPATORY DESIGN: LEARNING FROM DENMARK UDF is excited to introduce Anne Margrethe Wagner, tenure-track assistant professor at the Section of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Design at the University of Copenhagen, as our guest speaker at the upcoming AGM on Tuesday 28th November. Please register
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Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar (Penguin, 2023) Reviewed by: George Weeks “No city of any size could have permitted everyone to come by car and retained a vibrant downtown” Henry Grabar, (p. 77) Paved Paradise (2023). To the uninitiated, a book on car parking sounds like the dullest, greyest topic
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Urban Design Forum (UDF) celebrates its 21st anniversary this year. It was initially formed by a small group of built environment professionals keen to exchange ideas and strive for better quality in our urban environments. In 2003 UDF organised the first Urbanism Downunder conference here in Tamaki Makaurau and tapped
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On Tuesday 17 October, 6-7.30pm, Te Pūtahi is putting medium density housing under the microscope to learn how it can be done well at ‘Reaching a happy medium in urban housing’, the third Christchurch Conversation for 2023. As more medium density is on the cards in Ōtautahi Christchurch, they
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