Stephen Olsen

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. In its neatly threaded and accessibly understated scholarly […]

Several decades after his untimely death, the intensely private and solitary architectural photographer Duncan Winder (1919-1970) has not escaped the attention of scholars. Clarke observes that Winder managed to both accentuate the library building’s “monumentality” while also taking advantage of its vantage points through to shafts of cityscape, still visible

The headline event to look back on for urban design and urbanism in 2023 was without doubt the Urbanism NZ 2023 Conference held in Auckland in April. Since then some detailed summations of Event Outcomes have been added to the event site and a notice was posted to announce a

With end-of-year functions bringing UDF members together this week,  here are six questions that should provide some good conversation starters – as well as good food for thought over the Christmas-New Year break. (Plus you can add your own!) When and why did you first start identifying as an urban