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Countering misinformation & disinformation in our communities: power yourself up!
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- False information is really, *really* unhealthy and, unsurprisingly, it’s infiltrating the public discourse around even the most “no brainer” city changes.
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Don’t be resigned to renting being rubbish. It needn’t be!
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- Just your regular reminder that the munted way we do some things in New Zealand isn’t Just How It is. And, in fact, being better is straightforward! This is from a recent, generally cheerful update on the state of NZ’s housing market, where Ged Cann reports on a NZ Herald investigation of the impact of...
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Teeny local businesses…and what we need to make them common again
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- “Residential” zoning has a lot to answer for, including that thing where you have to get in the car and drive 10 minutes to fetch… anything. Little hyper-local neighbourhood businesses are great for 1,000 reasons so how do we let them come back? For a lovely summary of why tiny neighbourhood businessess are the best,...
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Public health & low carbon transport: what parties said
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- While the relationship between these might seem obvious to readers of Talk Wellington, public health researchers thought they’d ask political parties about this directly, and see what they said. The results are… We recently discovered that there’s a Public Health Communication Centre – how very useful! They’re doing a graet public service this election year:...
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Locally-driven civics: talanoa-wānganga and citizens’ assembly on climate change
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- Another of the many great local things to light up your pre-election world Every pre-election season it’s easy to feel a bit disempowered, as the Heavy Hitters make grand gestures about how they’ll change our country. It’s worth remembering that whatever the flavour of central government, the most meaningful and tangible changes come locally. Driven...
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Locally-driven civics: talanoa-wānanga and citizens’ assembly on climate change
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- Another of the many great local things to light up your pre-election world Every pre-election season it’s easy to feel a bit disempowered, as the Heavy Hitters make grand gestures about how they’ll change our country. It’s worth remembering that whatever the flavour of central government, the most meaningful and tangible changes come locally. Driven...
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Q: Is your city any good? A: Depends how green it is
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- “Why are you moving to That City?” “Well, a few reasons …but mostly it’s just greener than all the others we were considering” This is an interesting piece, arguing that cities are being increasingly defined by their sustainability and greenness. This was surprising as we’d only relaly thought of cities being “defined” fairly traditional definitions...
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Let’s be less rubbish about waste – have your say pronto!
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- This one almost got away on us: the Wellington Regional Waste Management and Minimisation Plan needs your shove – closing Friday 5pm! There’s a lot of good intention in there and it’s badly needed. We are a bit rubbish about waste in New Zealand, including Wellington region. At the Southern Landfill, which has probably the...
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Better trains for Te Upoko o te Ika? Tune in!
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- Wellington’s metropolitan (suburban) rail upgrade has been a long time coming, and a long time in the delivering. Tune in to a livestream Thursday 31st August to hear more. It’ll be a combined effort with Horizons Manawatū District Council as the outer parts of Te Upoko o te Ika are the focus of the talk:...
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Ebikes + community power = everyday magic
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- One of the many great local things to light up your pre-election world Every pre-election season it’s easy to feel a bit disempowered, as the Heavy Hitters make grand gestures about how they’ll change our country. It’s worth remembering that whatever the flavour of central government, the most meaningful and tangible changes come locally. Driven...
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e-scooters: don’t ban them by accident
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- A temporary exemption in official classifications means we get to have e-scooters in NZ. But that exemption’s expiring and there’s real “baby goes out with bathwater” risk, so pop in your 2c BY 5PM MONDAY 7th! If you want to do this real quick, scroll to …. you guessed, it, our friend the typing cat!...
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Got a bad street? Good news: it’s now easier to reshape it!
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- As of today it’s finally way easier to try out retrofits to our bad streets – you know, the ones that make it generally yuk to do anything except be in a car. Get onto your local council – they’ve now got all the tools! Last year you raised your voices with “A Big Fat...
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Three housing things
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- Fixing our housing crisis: it’s a hot topic and it’ll be one of our election deciders… but it’s also really easy to misunderstand. Here are three useful things about housing to add to your brain food this week 1. Rates and more homes One symptom of politicians showing they’re In Touch With The Populace is...
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Let’s Get Wellington Moving: please, councillors, keep your eyes on the prize
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- A bunch of WCC councillors are poised to throw not just the proverbial baby, but our whole reproductive system out with the bathwater. Sounds stupid? It is. Yet here we are, so please help keep their eyes on the prize! What’s happening on Thursday? Wellington city councillors have to vote whether to support or oppose...
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Development that can wash its own face
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- In NZ our most common urban landuse – the suburb – starts out looking financially good, then absolutely gobbles money from the city, i.e. everyone not living in the suburb. How’s that? And is there another way to do suburbs? The western world has been doing the “suburban experiment” for a few generations now and...
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Parking and Profit: sensible swaps for smart cities
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- We’ve all heard about the pandemic hurting hospitality businesses, especially those in city centres. Those temporary street parking for dining space swaps – parklets – have thown up some surprises Toronto is relatable for here. A pretty car-centric (i.e. normal) Canadian city, and its citywide association of business improvement areas (what we call BIDs) has...
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Sensible speeds by schools & centres: for once, it’s simple
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- ****** This is hard for us! This blog luuuurves to nerd out on things. We love saying things like “there’s more to it than meets the eye” and unpacking technical details, arcane legal stuff, political machinations. But for once, there’s an issue where it really is very simple – despite lots of folk trying to...
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Your handy submission guide: LGWM City Streets proposals
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- 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...
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Public spaces today: familiar, but definitely not “neutral”
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- 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...
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On the lack of importance of footway clutter
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- 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...
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Cautionary tales out of Auckland light rail: a good thing, being done badly
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- Make no mistake, Wellington city needs mass transit. And we’re watching with alarm how Auckland, in trying to get a vital component of its own mass transit system (that their fast-growing city needs ever more desperately), is kicking itself in the leg Just in case anyone listening too closely to certain councillors: there’s no other...
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Changing Street Parking: strategy vs world
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- 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...
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Young girls and femmes in the city: visible yet forgotten
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- 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...
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Say Yes to sensible street changes (Kate Sheppard would approve)
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- 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...
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Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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15-minute cities (the latest conspiracy?)
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- 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...
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A tasting plate: superb satire, bodies for buses, and wicked webinars
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- 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...
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Do we really need to heritage list any more of central Wellington?
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- 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...
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Hannah Playhouse, 12, Cambridge Terrace, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A picture of how it feels
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- 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...
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Play in your city! (And dance, and …)
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- 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...
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What’s under our streets (and why does the digging cost so much)?
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- 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...
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