Talk Wellington / July 2022
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Submission guide: biking between Botanics and the big blue briney
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- 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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Status quo bias and the infrastructure of an uncertain future
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- 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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Identity Development: Auckland’s special character vs intensification
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- 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?
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- 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**”
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- 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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