Category: Comment
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Postcard from Washington DC
# CommentI’m here in Washington DC, with the Victoria University team for the Solar Decathlon 2011 competition – building and running the First Light House. The month started off with the pre-assembly from containers of our modular house, and the competition proper started last night. Wish us luck! We have spent the last few weeks
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Are Auckland Learning From Us?
With the launch of the Centre City Plan discussion document, has Auckland shown that it is more prepared than Wellington to put in place some realistic 21st Century, urban design thinking?
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Memorial Car Park
# CommentSince the unveiling of the NZTA schemes for around the Basin now almost a month ago, we have been having a good look at their back issues – the NZTA publications that they have been storing up away from prying eyes. Now, however, a good number of them have been published and are available on…
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Peak Oil, Peak Car, and Resilient Cities…
Sure it was ‘only’ an aspirational vision, but way back in 2007, there was this idea that we might become the first carbon neutral capital in the world – big promises to be sure, but just how are we doing…
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Traffic Congestion, Part 1: why are the DomPost being such d1cks?
I’m sorry for the slightly profane character of the title to this post, but really, the Dominion Post editorial: Time for roading talk to go up a gear has raised my ire.
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The common ‘sense of place’.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done
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Overground? underground? … wombling free?
While the Wombles spent their lives underground and overground, they never really had to negotiate the politics of overpasses.
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Flyovers: residual spaces, community severance…
…or, sculptural celebrations of inspired engineering and urban design? Kind of just a gallery post this one, and timely to consider against whatever NZTA might deliver in tomorrow’s big release of the proposals for Transportation Improvements Near the Basin Reserve.
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Let’s not get pwned by the RoNSter
Save the Basin and Save Kapiti are organising a “Rail Against the Road/Expressway” rally at Parliament on Wednesday July 6th.