On the 20th of March, an enthralled audience in Wellington’s St. James Theatre witnessed talks by Salvador Rueda and Janette Sadik-Kahn. It was an urbanist’s dream come true. They represented a gathering of like-minded urbanists—people who live and breathe various forms of urbanism and, in many instances, like me, base […]
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The closing date for submissions on the Fast-Track Approvals Bill is this Friday, 19 April 2024. This week a submission response worked on at UDF will be sent to Parliament highlighting major points of concern about the Bill as currently framed, including the lack of transparency it represents and potential
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Since signing Coalition agreements the new Government has entered a fast lane on exiting a number of projects and programmes that had been expected to help shape future years of urban design in Aotearoa NZ. Even so, after a change of Government it can be surprisingly difficult to locate wayfinders
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The NZIA City Talks series for 2024 is underway at the City Gallery Wellington tonight, Monday 18 March, and will be livestreamed from 6.30pm. The headline for the event is Carbon Counts and the speaker for the evening is Ewan Brown of Tennent Brown. The livestream link is: https://youtube.com/live/aTxELhjOibU The series
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“The city is a paella, it’s all about the proportions.” So said Salvador Rueda, director of the Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona, at his talk at the Christchurch Art Gallery on Monday 11 March. His additional sage counsel was that the paella becomes inedible if it has too much salt. The
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