Blogs / July 2022
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Review: Shift Your Paradigm
- The Wellingtonista
- Shift Your Paradigm Reviewed by Lox Dixon Shift Your Paradigm (No Chairs Required) begins by welcoming us into the Dome space at BATS Theatre, for a chair seminar. The stage is sparse. Two cheap desks are set up, one to either side of stage, and an object (presumably a chair) covered by a sheet, sits […]
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Submission guide: biking between Botanics and the big blue briney
- Talk Wellington
- Safe cycling and scooting between the Botanic Gardens and the harbour needs needs your support to become real – because of course “just being a no-brainer essential thing” isn’t enough. Biking and scooting safely between the Botanic Gardens and the harbour is something that’s vital for the city, a route identified by exhaustive analysis and an...
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Wellington Botanic Garden, Salmont Place, Paekaka, Wellington Central, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6145, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Mayor of Gotham City
- Eye of the Fish
- Yes folks, the Wellington race for a new Mayor has so far been a bit of a limp affair. So far we appear only to have been attracting the joke candidates, rather than the real main contenders.
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A Detailed Wellington Airport Guide [from a local]
- Where in Wellington
- Whether you’re a frequent visitor or coming to Wellington for the first time, there are a few tricks to getting around Wellington Airport that will make your experience that much... The post A Detailed Wellington Airport Guide [from a local] appeared first on Where In Wellington.
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LGWM: The Gauntlet
- Eye of the Fish
- Hi fishes. Well the LGWM thing was announced supporting the big, most expensive package. As you know I got my issues, discussed in 3-Big-Flaws here. Thought I’d come back and address a few bonus thoughts. First up: The Gauntlet Tunnel. To recap. The selected package aims for trams to Island Bay, frustratingly bypassing Newtown, and a busway to Kilbirnie and Miramar frustratingly attached to a new highway tunnel.
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Review: Dying Swanologues
- The Wellingtonista
- Tutus and trauma: a delicious slice By Talia Carlisle It’s never too late to join the ballet bandwagon, unless that wagon is the Tempest season of Dying Swanologues at BATS Theatre, in which case you have sorely missed out. The short and sweet season from July 5-9 was made shorter with two last minute cancellations […]
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Sir Michael Fowler
- Eye of the Fish
- It’s a rare thing for an Architect to become a Mayor – and even rarer for an Architect to become a Knight. We (NZ) have only got a couple of benighted Architects, and there has only ever been one person who has attained both honours. Our only knighted Architect Mayor, Sir Michael Fowler, has sadly just passed away. I was not in Wellington when he was around, and only knew of him in a second-hand manner at the time, so I have asked an esteemed contributor to the site if he would like to say a few words. And lovely words they are.
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Status quo bias and the infrastructure of an uncertain future
- Talk Wellington
- So why do we keep doing essentially the same stuff with infrastructure, when we know it won’t give us the change we need? An expert’s take… This is a guest post by freelance journalist Stephen Olsen of Palaver Media. Check out their great cities content on Medium. Geoff Cooper, GM Urban Strategy at the nation’s brains trust...
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Feedback time again
- Eye of the Fish
- Slowly but surely, at a majestic but glacial pace, Let’s Get Wellington Moving are moving forwards. Well, moving, at least. Maybe it is forwards. Maybe it is sideways. But at least it is not backwards. They’ve released some proposals, and want your / our feedback. And that means it is time for a closer look.
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Identity Development: Auckland’s special character vs intensification
- Talk Wellington
- We’ve seen debate in recent months over protecting Auckland’s special character housing. These structures are important to some as a matter of history and identity. All this talk has some examining why certain areas get developed and others preserved. Auckland’s special character houses are protected from densification efforts. These buildings are said to provide history...
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We keep doing the same, but expecting something different to happen… til now?
- Talk Wellington
- Finally, it seems, we may be getting less insane (in Einstein terms) in how we plan, build and experience transport infrastructure… “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” These great words (attributed to Einstein) come up a lot when we think about transport. You know the feeling: we...
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Govt & NZ: “reduce emissions”. Other govt: “yeah but BUILDING THINGS plus **votes**”
- Talk Wellington
- Some influential voices are pointing out the climate weaknesses of Let’s Get Wellington Moving big-ticket programme. Will anyone listen? What’s new? Te Waihanga, the NZ Infrastructure Commission (lots of big brains, but no powers to compel the government to do anything) has just released some analysis. It’s here and here, and LGWM’s response is here....
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Celebration
- Eye of the Fish
- In an announcement released quietly on 4th July, by MBIE, there is some massive cause for celebration. “MBIE advises seismically vulnerable buildings can remain occupied”...
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Luit Bieringa 1942–2022
- Te Papa's blog
- It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Luit Bieringa on 21 June.
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