A climate-resilient city that’s fun to live in.
Helicopter Progress
Pay Less Rates Now: Pay More Later!
Would the Olympic Pools go on the chopping block if there was a rates cap?
Forward Thinking Prevails for Karangahape Road
The Protection of Private Property Rights v Provision for the Public Good
Helicopters and Housing Don’t Mix
Consultation results. Orange dots oppose the helicopter consent. Blue dots support it.
The Social Housing Gap
Wilsher Village, Senior Housing run by Haumaru, a less well known Auckland Council CCO that is ready to grow.
The Making of Te Rimutahi, 254 Ponsonby Road
Current staff, elected officials and the community at the dawn blessing of Te Rimutahi.
The Provision of Parks
MOO at the Platt Arboretum, recently gifted to Aucklanders by Rosemary Platt. Pictured: Artist Jamie Pickernell with Rosemary Platt.
The Value of Precincts
Take a Pattern Book and Replicate . . .
Planners: out of control, or holding the line?
The Future of Senior Housing
Fragmented Farmland & the Impact on Food Security
Auckland Needs a Boarding House Register (updated 28 July 2025)
Loafers Lodge Fire, 2023, killed five people
Lessons on Greening and Climate-resilience from Singapore
Image, courtesy of WOHA, originally published in ArchDaily
Salvador Rueda talks Superblocks
Making the Blue Economy work for the Oceans
Snapper, Goat Island, taken from the Hauraki Gulf Forum. https://gulfjournal.org.nz/2024/01/how-will-the-hauraki-gulf-tikapa-moana-marine-protection-bill-impact-fish-and-fishing-in-the-gulf/
Reducing Risk from Floods
People navigating Brewster Avenue in Point Chevalier, in a kayak. Picture from Stuff, taken from Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand.