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The Fast Track Aprovals Bill: Your Submission Guide
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- Your handy guide for a submission that supports Aotearoa’s towns and cities becoming more prosperous and sustainable, faster – without the dodgy stuff! Submissions close 11.59pm Friday 19th! Here’s one of the famed Talk Wellington submission guides. For background, whys, hows and wherefores, read on. If you’re wanting to whack in a submission on your...
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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, in particular, learn to navigate the city in a unique way. What can we do to make city spaces that work for this demographic as well as for everyone else? This is...
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How high-rise is “native”?
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- A new development in Canada showcases some stunning contemporary indigenous design and planning – and surfaces a lot of dodgy assumptions about “indigeneity” and urban form. Plus, surprising facts about skyscrapers! The Squamish First Nation, partnering with a private real-estate developer, are doing some big – really big – developments on their land in the...
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How we got here: housing
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- There’s a lot written about housing in Aotearoa New Zealand but one piece we’d recommend in early 2024… It’s a piece by Eleanor West and Marko Garlick, pillars of the Wellington pro-density urbanism movement A City For People. It’s called Upzoning New Zealand, published in the online magazine Works In Progress. The standfirst says it...
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Cool events coming up!
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- There’s a swag of neat events in Pōneke in the week of 18-20 March… They’re being organised around the 2WalkandCycle conference, and are open to the public! Check out the array in this PDF. They’re labelled “industry events” but we reckon they’re great for anyone nerdy about walking, cycling, scooting, and how they fuel great...
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Some February-March happenings
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- It’s always busy at this time of year but there’s an extra lot happening right now! Talk Wellington tries to keep up with this roundup, and please add things we’ve missed… By the way, we highly recommend Greater Auckland’s weekly roundup, always featuring lots of nationally-relevant stuff as well as Tāmaki-Makaurau things. Bus boardings across...
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Some January-February happenings
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- It’s always busy at this time of year but there’s an extra lot happening right now! Talk Wellington tries to keep up with this roundup, and please add things we’ve missed… Congestion charging may finally get on the local agenda: Wellington mayor asks councillors to vote to lobby Government for it (amongst many other cost-cutting,...
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Why density though?
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- Answered by A City For People’s Luke Sommervell, to attendees of March 2024 gathering of Wellington Urbanerds. Why density? Why now? It’s a conversation that has come up recently, a lot. Young people are flocking to places like Melbourne, Sydney, and London. And raving about trains, trams, apartment living with the same level of excitement...
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Regular people, change and Wellington: the District Plan and the movement
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- Of course 2024’s first Urbanerds gathering had to be about Wellington’s battle for a District Plan that lets the city evolve. In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the evening featuring A City for People, the War for Wellington and record turnout of new faces! Urbanerds co-host Matt McCallum welcomed folks and introduced...
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Pukehinau-Lambton citizens: do the vote thing!
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- From time to time there’s a byelection and it’s easy to get distracted and not vote. In Wellington, right now, that could well mean lots of regrets. Here’s a few tips to make it easy for those with a byelection to vote in! While it was done for the general election, the Talk Wellington Sniff...
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Come together: diversity, discourse and the magic of place
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- Our national day is a pretext to be deliberate about our big, important conversations – our constitution, our identities, our senses of fairness.
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Summer happenings
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- Urbanism never sleeps… and despite NZ’s traditional shut-down and quiet period over the summer, it’s been a big time! Here’s some urbanism-relevant stuff you may have missed (and please add stuff we’ve missed – especially from Porirua, the Hutt valley and Kāpiti!) Just before Christmas: The new Transport Minister cancelled central funding for a slate...
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Summer, sun, socialising – speeding?
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- Summer! With loads more people outdoors, it’s more obvious how local streets are performing for their communities. Here’s some tips for local citizens to seize the opportunity for some productive local conversation about driving speeds. As more of us want to get to cool parks, al fresco dining spots, beaches and other destinations outdoors, and...
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Draft District Plan, Hutt City: so hot right now! Here’s your submission guide
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- Famously (amongst nerds) Hutt City is the first “city” to enable a denser, more vibrant urban environment by removing old barriers to people doing more good stuff with land – or at least proposing to. Submissions close 15 December Our experts are crafting a great submission guide for you, and it’ll be up in the...
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Water: a chance to get our basics right! Your submission guide
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- The stream in your neighbourhood, the water at the beach: how clean is clean enough? How dirty is too dirty? Submissions close 15th!
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400+ urban researchers descend on Wellington: “Pacific Futures: Australasian Cities in Transition”
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- This week the hills of Kelburn will be alive with the sound of more than 400 urban nerds gathering for the State of Australasian Cities conference. Guest poster Becks Newnham has the lowdown 2023 is the first State of Australasian Cities conference (SOAC) to be hosted in Aotearoa, with researchers, policymakers, advocates and practitioners are...
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A good place: functioning? Liveable? Loveable??
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- For decades we’ve taken a prosaic approach to our towns and cities, focussing on physical infrastructure, and, recently “liveable” places. What could we see through a lens of “loveable” places? Is a loveable place different from a liveable one? Does a place’s loveability compensate for some basic things being broken? Consultancy firm GHD has come...
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Wellington’s Future Development Strategy: your submission guide (quick!)
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- Our region’s Future Development Strategy will say what big, important stuff goes where, setting the course for our towns and cities for decades. A Talk Wellington reader lays out why it matters, and how to submit – ASAP! This post contains some introductory information, and then a submission guide based on the Talk Wellington kaupapa....
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Money! Funding crisis! Household budget crunch! Welcome to Long Term Plan season
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- Local councillors across the country are grappling with their council’s 10-year budget, AKA Long Term Plan. It’s a fiscally grim outlook for households, councils and central government alike so the perfect time to get some perspective! In 2023, with the rolling maul of COVID effects and sea level rise and climate change and our chronically...
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A tool to prevent gentrification?
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- Everyone wants their neighbourhood to be a better place to live, but how do you avoid the fundamental laws of the market forcing people out who’ve often lived and loved there for generations? One tool can help… Gentrification. It’s one of the few genuinely bad things about the otherwise process of making nicer places to...
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Listening recommendations! Housing and climate
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- Two killer podcast recommendations: a great myth busted, and some hard facts reiterated Both of these deserve their own “Review” post so if you’re keen to pen something please sing out! The great housing supply myth Also known as the conventional wisdom of “housing is incredibly expensive because there’s a supply shortage so we just need...
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City future-making: get amongst it this Thursday!
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- Another great local thing to light up your post-election world Every election season, regardless of your views of the parties, it’s easy to feel a bit disempowered: it’s all about the Heavy Hitters making grand gestures about how they’ll change our country. So it’s worth remembering that whatever the flavour of central government, the most...
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Vote your power for better urban New Zealand!
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- For your empowered voting enjoyment… We hear at Talk Wellington that you our readers appreciate us being really unequivocal and evidence-based about urban policy and whether it’ll make for fairer, more sustainable, more prosperous towns and cities and people. We’re into it, whoever’s proposing it! So, dear urban citizens of Te Upoko o te Ika and 84%...
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It’s a news roundup!
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- There’s just been a lot happening in the Wellington region in the last few weeks. Here’s stuff that may’ve slipped past your nose… In no particular order… It’s actually real! The Golden Mile revitalisation is officially underway! Cities and neighbourhoods: they’re complex ecosystems, they’re always changing – nice piece on incomings and outgoings in Te...
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City space: for some, for all, for a while: great event this Tuesday
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- LettingSpace was an extraordinary phenomenon and there’s now a book about it. So first: enjoy learning about LettingSpace, and then: go to the book launch! It’s good for everyone when street-facing commercial property in city centres is actively used – because vacanct premises are the lowkey Dementors of street life, chilling the soul and sucking...
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Taxes, rates, value and land: Common Ground Aotearoa
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- Rates, taxes and whatnots: are there better options than New Zealand’s current system of getting money to fund public services like pipes? Post from Common Ground Aotearoa, nerdy advocates for a better way Principles of taxation and how our rates system stacks up Principles of taxation When determining how to raise revenue, governments should try...
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Rainy day watching and listening fun
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- Some great city-building watching and listening we’ve been enjoying… PODCAST: Infrastructure construction, and how to f*ck up (spoiler: it’s quite easy!) There’s (rightfully) lots of noise at the moment about New Zealand’s staggering infrastructure deficit, and some really big talk about what big infrastructure things politicians promise they’ll build for us (especially the kinds of...
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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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