If you’re still making plans for 12.30-1.30pm today (Thursday 6 March) it’s not too late to join us online to listen to landscape architect and PhD student Nicki Williams introduce findings from her important research at Otago University into transport through the lenses of diverse women. Drawing from in-depth interviews […]
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To mark International Women’s Day 2025, the Urban Design Forum is proud to offer a lunch-time opportunity on Thursday 6 March 12:30pm – 1:30pm to collectively challenge our thinking on how women experience moving around our towns and cities. An online presentation titled Women on the move: Transport through the
With permission, Stuart Donovan, a Senior Fellow at Motu Research and urban economist, has allowed us to share this brief tribute he made on LinkedIn to Donald Shoup, an American engineer and professor in urban planning who died on 6 February. A tribute to Donald Shoup I read Donald Shoup’s
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Every year presents a smorgasbord of Conference events – here’s a taster of some of these for 2025. If you spot events that would be good to publicise to UDF followers please send an email to media@urbandesignforum.org.nz NZ PLANNING INSTITUTE The NZPI Annual Conference is being held 26 – 28
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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
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