OP-ED BY DAVID HATTAM Urban issues clearly matter to New Zealanders. We care about the quality of our towns and cities. But the level of understanding of what makes a good city is low. Nothing illustrates this better than the recent changes to resource management reform, and how they are […]
David Hattam: We Need to Talk about the Value of Design Read More »
The formal emergence, this week, of the Urban Designers Institute Aotearoa (UDIA) is set to break new ground for urban design professionals – as earlier canvassed at the UrbanismNZ conference held in Auckland in 2023 and after a lengthy gestation. See also: UDF and the new Urban Designers Institute Aotearoa
Introducing the Urban Designers Institute Aotearoa (UDIA) Read More »
As we pass the halfway point of 2024 details of the Coalition Government’s direction setting on a raft of salient fronts for urban design – namely infrastructure, resource management, transport and housing – continue to emerge, piece by piece. Since the policy watch put together here in March, some of
Housing in the headlines … and Granny Flats Read More »
