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    • Your handy submission guide: LGWM City Streets proposals
      • LGWM has 4 surveys open for feedback on city streets changes they’ll make soon! This is good stuff that should’ve been done years ago, so take a couple of mins to whack in your feedback by midnight TUESDAY 23! The City Streets programme is the fastest-moving part of LGWM with good basic street changes for...

    • Public spaces today: familiar, but definitely not “neutral”
      • Public buildings illuminated with the trans flag colours, reinstatement of Māori place names, and rainbow pedestrian crossings have some people arguing this is “politicising” public space. But New Zealand public spaces have never been neutral – far from it. This post is for you, TW readers who don’t identify as being part of a group...

    • On the lack of importance of footway clutter
      • Ever notice how cluttered footpaths can be? This can cause serious issues but a lot of this clutter is necessary. Guest writer Craig Stansfield asks what if the solution is rethinking how our roads are laid out in the first place. This article was written by guest poster Craig Stansfield. Footways are important things. Those...

    • Changing Street Parking: strategy vs world
      • In city transport, if you sort out parking, everything becomes possible. And if you fail to sort out parking, everything will be way harder. Auckland’s followed Wellington in making a good parking strategy, so let’s hear how that went! Hosted by MR Cagney’s parking guru Scott Ebbett, it’s a great listen starring one of the...

    • Young girls and femmes in the city: visible yet forgotten
      • Cities can easily forget about or fail to serve certain groups of people; one of those is young people. Young girls and femmes learn to navigate the city in a unique way. What can we do to create spaces that work for and keep this demographic safe? We often try to give some insight into...

    • Say Yes to sensible street changes (Kate Sheppard would approve)
      • There’s humble and sensible proposals to make Thorndon and Kilbirnie a little bit friendlier for people, rather than just cars. The suffragettes didn’t do all that hard work for nothing: as onto-it citizens who now have a voice, put in your Yes by 5pm Monday 27th March! Long overdue, there’s finally some movement to make...

    • 15-minute cities (the latest conspiracy?)
      • If we didn’t know it already, humans are able to be afraid of the strangest things. The 15-minute neighbourhood is the latest and out of a morbid curiosity, we wondered how people are able to be scared of “have good life without needing car”… This is one of the typical videos we’ve found. A journalist...

    • A tasting plate: superb satire, bodies for buses, and wicked webinars
      • There’s heaps of good stuff recently, enjoy! Wicked Webinars! When we change (a little bit) the money and direction going in at the Very Top Of The Transport System, does anything change on the ground? Researchers have analysed the effect of the 2018 Government Policy Statement on Transport and … well, we’re agog to hear...

    • Do we really need to heritage list any more of central Wellington?
      • Heritage NZ are currently consulting on Category 1-listing the Hannah Playhouse. Some bigwigs support it but guest poster Peter encourages us to oppose it in the consultation – open til 3 March Much criticism of heritage listing modern buildings, particularly those of this architectural style, Brutalism, is rooted in architectural snobbery. This post is not about...

    • A picture of how it feels
      • Here’s a little homage to a classic image that blew our minds when we saw it, and now we see things differently everywhere we go Artist Karl Jilg created this for the Swedish Road Administration decades ago, and it’s still super powerful today. It was part of the “battle for hearts and minds” angle of...

    • Play in your city! (And dance, and …)
      • Where do we play in our urban areas? Where would it be good to play more? Good weather is a good time to think about this – and exercise the power of play for people. From chess to kickabouts to making a miniature metropolis in the mud… from chasing games to dragon drama to pokémon...

    • What’s under our streets (and why does the digging cost so much)?
      • This summer there’ll be roadcones, diggers and safety fencing aplenty in all Wellington’s towns, as councils dig holes to get the water (and poo) going where they should. So, what’s down there? First off, it’s harder than you think to simply find where the pipes are. And that matters quite a lot (cos if the...

    • A comprehensive guide to urban greening: more than adding trees
      • Melbourne’s been working hard at urban greening. And they’ve learned a lot about how it can be done, what mistakes get made, and how the public reacts. We can probably all get behind more greenery and green spaces in our towns. But what does that look like and what considerations come up? Melbourne has a...

    • The fading dream of home ownership
      • With unapproachable and expensive housing markets around the world, many young people are giving up on ever owning a house. Alice Capelle explores a theoretical system that rethinks the inheritance, owning, and buying of homes. Young people are feeling anxiety about the housing crisis. Prices are high, affordable housing is limited, and the market is...

    • Who knew? Sponges are punk
      • What happens when you combine sponge city and solarpunk city? A beautiful, nature-friendly and delightful place to be… Freethink, whose tagline is “let’s explore that!”, have made this cool video about sponge cities, their benefits and their caveats. As we know, sponge cities integrate green and blue infrastructure to help rainwater get back into the...

    • Under Construction: keeping a transitional city usable and attractive
      • Cities are always under construction. It’s unavoidable. But that doesn’t mean the sites have to be ugly. It’s a common sight for towns and cities to be full of cones and detours. It can feel never-ending. But just because something’s a construction site doesn’t mean it can’t be beautiful or even add to the community....

    • Here, what do people really want from cities and neighbourhoods?
      • ICYMI, here’s the recording of the fascinating webinar by the University of Waikato’s Dr Iain White, talking about the new research that investigates this fascinating question in the 15-minute city. 15 minutes under your own steam is a fundamentally sound premise for arranging the stuff of life – so it’s no accident that it’s being...

    • Hot reads: resource management law reform
      • It’s a busy time and our whiskers are twitching about lots of things we’re seeing. One of a few hot topics this week – and add any good reads in the comments! There’s a general vibe that the RM reforms released a couple of days ago are… marginal improvements on what’s in the current RMA....

    • Q: Is your city in chains right now? A: Depends on parking
      • It doesn’t matter how good everything else is: if your city’s wrongheaded about private car parking everything else will be in chains. But happily the converse is also true… tune in Wednesday 23rd for details! Parking of different kinds is an essential ingredient in a well-functioning city. And it can be a huge set of...

    • How Commune’s coliving promises to house and support single parents
      • French start-up Commune is creating cohousing for single-parent families in France and (in time) beyond. Coliving is already in huge demand. Why does Commune stand out among the rest? Commune is France’s first coliving development made just for single-parent families. This cohousing experience hopes to support the particular needs of single-parent households. Commune hopes to...

    • Who should pay for what, so we and stuff can get around?
      • Who pays for what is always a really vexed question. The Ministry of Transport is trying to “input crowd… output insight” right now, and you should have your 2c by 4th November! Because we’ve funded much of our transport system from a tax on petrol and diesel, as we (finally) start to reduce the amount...

    • Bringing cars up to our level: How crossing design gives cars the power
      • Different countries handle crossing the road differently: some with ease and others chaotically. Wherever you are there are subtle ways crossings communicate who’s entering whose domain. This video from Not Just Bikes shows how crossing design makes streets dangerous where it doesn’t have to be. Depending on where you are, crossing the street can be...

    • Integrated ticketing for public transport: eavesdropping on nerds
      • At long (looooooong) last, Wellington’s getting integrated electronic ticketing for our PT. And soon a nationwide system will replace it! Is it all worth it? We had a great time nerdily eavesdropping on an even nerdier Twitter debate, with some interesting takes on nationwide integrated ticketing, public transport operating costs, and government procurement. (For a...

    • House the People! Tune into the webinar tonight!
      • Come along to the free webinar tonight (13/10/2022) at 6:30 pm! A talented panel will discuss our current crisis, lessons from overseas and what we need to secure quality affordable homes for our communities. Join us tonight for a fantastic online panel discussion, House the People! The event is free and starts at 6:30 pm,...

    • MOVIES: dive into cool places
      • two/fiftyseven welcomes you to a free film series on the places we live, our relationship to them, and how we make them our own Wellington’s grooviest collaborative space – above Unity Books – is showing some ace movies! The next one is Wed Oct 19th –  short NZ films about our place. November’s is called Ever...

    • Better growing, everybody! Direction-setting in a messy environment
      • Greater Wellington is setting its Regional Policy Statement, with some bold direction-setting. It needs and deserves a general thumbs up from us the citizenry – do it by 14th! TL; DR – tell me what to do while I wait for my coffee Good onya. Scroll to our faithful friend, the typing cat! Greater Wellington...

    • Buckets of money vs real world change: transport edition
      • Money and effort goes in, lots of good sounding words are crafted, then… some strange stuff happens on the ground. What’s going on? GreaterAuckland’s Heidi O’Callaghan takes a look into the machinery This month we’re hearing a lot from wannabe local leaders about “doing this or that with transport money”, including “we’ll pressure Waka Kotahi...

    • Go on, do the vote thing
      • This is a post from your friendly editor Isabella. If you’re like me, you’re putting off voting cos it’s complex and a bit depressing. This post gives you a broad steer, and some top tips. Go on, do the vote thing! A top tip from all voting advice is: have a broad sense of the...

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