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Characterful medium density housing!
- Talk Wellington
- Who else is having conversations where someone goes “ooh but it’s all leaky soulless apartments, we don’t want that”? Here’s a feast for your eyes and balm for your worried soul Welcome to Talk Wellington’s random collection of neat medium-density examples to cheer you up, to show your friends, to tell the council you want … and to inspire density skeptics (presuming they’re in good faith, not just being awful). (Images’ links are in the image, caption or the text – click for more.) Enjoy! Characterful, “old”… medium density Montréal has a LOT of medium density residential neighbourhoods. They’re super liveable and beloved, and they are home to numbers of people that would sort out many of Wellington’s classic woes. Here’s some pretty historic-y medium density which has actual awesome neighbourhood vitality and character by the bucketload, for everyone. Medium density can be… no more than two storeys, with lots of mixed use and features like shop-top housing! No offence, Mt Vic / Khandallah / Thorndon / Woburn, but your neighbourhoods can’t hold a candle to the Castro for real liveable character, not just visual character. So leafy! Apartments you rent short-term: this is the Garden Wing of Singapore’s Shangri-La Hotel. It was built in the 1970s! Lush az. This is all open air How ’bout indigenous character! The stunning medium-density Utukoia replaces two detached homes on traditional quarter-acre sections with 14 new terrace homes (53 bedrooms total), communal facilities and a range of private, shared and public spaces. Phwoar. Check out the Auckland Māori Design Hub for more delicious stuff There are some smart folks stimulating Māori design and innovation at the Āpōpō accelerator right here in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, run by the Indigenous Design and Innovation Aotearoa / IDIA team. How about some modern character? Check out the beautiful high density of the Urban Habitat Collective, coming soon right in Newtown: Or the beautiful CoHaus (read their amazing story here) Even ol’ Kiwibuild is finally doing lovely stuff in Onehunga: How about the spaces in between the housing? Density done well brings your laneways to life as a part of people’s backyards, as in Queensland… Go large We really need comprehensive, multi-block developments to sort out whole areas of our cities. You can do ’em on something that’s underused space like… a golf course? Or even as a regeneration of… ooh, maybe a large area of detached housing, hello Kāinga Ora. So check out this thread on Vancouver’s Regent Park development. Hello #densitydonewell: a big uplift in density is helping fund all sorts of fantastic public amenities for the residents of the varied and accessible apartments: green space, schools, lovely public realm, community gardens, people-friendly street grid… That fourfold increase in density has helped to pay for generous public realm and community facilities including parks, athletic grounds, and an amazing aquatic centre #torontotweets #densitydonewell #citiesforall pic.twitter.com/cCy2dYq6V5 — Stuart (@HoughtonSd) September 11, 2018 Be still, our beating hearts…. And finally… DensityNOTdonewell While we tend to agree with Bernard Hickey that the battle over densifying suburbs is the battle of our generation, there’s plenty of reasonable property-owning folks who are genuinely, good-faith worried. They’re worried that crappy, ugly things will be built – and are vulnerable to being scaremongered by wild claims about housing values (hat tip Property Investors Federation). And let’s be honest: NZ has strong historical form in doing medium density badly – especially badly in construction, which means bad financially for those who bought in them. The cars seem to have the best of this bargain… And bad design is far from history: there’s still plenty of crap designs out there, thanks to our unfamiliarity with good-quality medium density. Here’s one example of rubbish medium density that appears to deny its residents most of the benefits of density done well like access to green space and social connection. So let’s also be clear: nobody wants crap design or construction, and we absolutely don’t have to accept it “because housing crisis”. So let’s get more and more people on the bandwagon for good medium density, #densitydonewell! What other examples of great (or grotty) medium density do you know? How do they make you feel and why?
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Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Metlink school bus routes for start of Term 1 2020
- Wellington High School
- Morning services 713 – Miramar – Kilbirnie – Newtown – Basin Schools 7:45 Miramar-DarlingtonRd (124) 8:36 BasinRes (sch) Daily 715 – Lyall Bay – Kilbirnie – Hataitai – Basin Schools 8:00 LyallBay-HungerfordRd (2) 8:28 BasinRes (sch) Daily 725 – Houghton Bay – Southgate – Island Bay – Basin Schools 7:45 HgtnBayRd nr Cave 8:31 BasinRes (sch) Daily 726 – Island Bay – Owhiro Bay – Berhampore – Wellington High School 7:55 Esplanade opp Beach 8:25 MasseyUni-WallaceSt (opp) Daily 8:05 Island Bay-ReefSt at ShorlandPk 8:25 MasseyUni-WallaceSt (opp) Daily 734 – Brooklyn – Kingston – Vogeltown – Basin Schools 7:50 OhiroRd at Bretby 8:10 AdelaideRd at Basin (12) Daily 736 – Karori (Wrights Hill) – Kelburn – Wellington College 7:40 KaroriMall-BeauchampSt 8:13 BasinRes (sch) Daily 7:50 GippsSt at Cooper (sch) 8:20 BasinRes (sch) Daily 737 – Karori – Kelburn – Wellington College & Wellington High School 7:43 Karori-AllingtonRd 8:29 BasinRes (sch) Daily 7:45 Karori-AllingtonRd 8:29 BasinRes (sch) Daily 7:47 Karori-AllingtonRd 8:33 BasinRes (sch) Daily 743 – Wilton – Wadestown – Thorndon Colleges & Basin Schools 7:55 Wilton-SurreySt 8:35 BasinRes (sch) Daily 8:00 Wilton-SurreySt 8:40 BasinRes (sch) Daily 746 – Khandallah – Ngaio – Basin Schools – St Patrick’s College 7:35 HuttRd at Rangiora 8:25 BasinRes (sch) Daily 764 – Karori – Wellington College 7:55 Karori-AllingtonRd 8:43 BasinRes (sch) Daily 768 – Mairangi – Wellington, St Patrick’s & Rongotai Colleges 7:50 Mairangi-NorwichSt 8:22 BasinRes (sch) Daily 770 – Kowhai Park – Kingston – Vogeltown – Basin & Kilbirnie Colleges 7:50 KowhaiPk-MitchellSt 8:15 AdelaideRd at Basin (12) Daily Afternoon services 718 – Wellington High School – Newtown – Seatoun 15:30 TaranakiSt (217) 16:00 SeatounPk-HectorSt Daily 719 – Wellington High School – Kilbirnie – Miramar North 15:30 WgtnHighSch (sch) 15:56 ParkRd at Rotherham (86) Daily 726 – Wellington High School – Berhampore – Owhiro Bay – Island Bay 15:25 WgtnHighSch (sch) 15:44 IslandBay-ReefSt opp ShorlandPk Daily 15:30 WgtnHighSch (sch) 16:10 IslandBay-ReefSt opp ShorlandPk Daily 734 – Brooklyn – Kingston – Vogeltown – Basin Schools 15:36 AdelaideRd at Basin (13) 15:50 Brooklyn-A Daily 740 – Wellington College – Kelburn – Karori 15:30 TaranakiSt at AbelSmith 15:58 Karori-KaroriRd Daily 15:31 TaranakiSt at AbelSmith 15:59 Karori-KaroriRd Daily 15:32 TaranakiSt at AbelSmith 16:00 Karori-KaroriRd Daily 742 – Basin Schools – Miramar Heights 15:40 BasinRes (sch) 16:18 MiramarShops-A Daily 769 – St Patrick’s & Wellington Colleges, Wellington High School – Northland – Wilton 15:38 TaranakiSt at AbelSmith 16:10 Wilton-SurreySt Daily 770 – Basin Schools – Vogeltown – Kingston – Kowhai Park 15:49 AdelaideRd at Basin (13) 16:29 KowhaiPk-MitchellSt Daily
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Tennis Central’s premier interclub grand finals 16 March
- Wellington Tennis Club
- Wellington’s tennis season climax coming Saturday 16 March … head on down to the Renouf Centre to watch the big showdown in Tennis Central’s Premier Interclub Grand Finals: Men: Tawa Tommy’s vs Thorndon Women: Lower Hutt vs Khandallah Both finals are going to be a cracker! All the action starts at 4pm.
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Massive sales at Thump sports till 8 Feb
- Wellington Tennis Club
- Thump Sports is having a massive sale at the Khandallah store with a lot more stock than is on their website.
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Thump sports annual demo and sale on Saturday
- Wellington Tennis Club
- Thump Sports holds its annual Tennis Demo Event and Sale at the Khandallah Tennis Club this Saturday 26 Sep, 10-3pm.
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Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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When the media advocate racism to hide the real culprits behind bad driving
- Jack Yan
- This op–ed in the Fairfax Press smacks of typical yellow peril journalism that has come to typify what passes for some media coverage of late.
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Titahi Bay, Porirua, Porirua City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Who are the single season points and try scoring record holders?
- Wellington Club Weekly
- Above: Brandyn Laursen (left) and Mike Clamp (right) who we think hold the respective Wellington club rugby single season points and try scoring records.
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Grab some gravel
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Take some hard fill for your home and garden projects this weekend - and help protect your community from flooding.
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Found a Facebook bot? Facebook wants you to leave it as reporting option vanishes
- Jack Yan
- Facebook appears to be giving up on the bot fight.
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Summer Interclub Round 2 Results
- Table Tennis Wellington
- Week 2 results are below: 2015-Summer-Interclub-4-March-results Premier 2015-Summer-Interclub-4-March-results Divisions FYI the draw schedules are here.
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Khandallah, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6035, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Commuting by bicycle in Wellington
- Cycling in Wellington
- In the past few years the number of people I see on bikes riding from Newtown to town in the morning has literally quadrupled. Unfortunately, many of the people I see stopped at the lights are on seriously terrible bikes. I’m see rusty, too-big or too-small mountain bikes with brakes that barely work and people look unconfident and uncomfortable on their bikes. Riding the wrong bike can actually make cycling seriously not fun. Recently several of my colleagues have gotten bicycles with the intention of cycling to work. I have noticed that they too seem to have missed some items that to me are essential for bike commuting. Namely:
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