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WellUrban / July 2007

Personal reflections on urbanism, urban life and sustainable urban design in Wellington, New Zealand.

August 2007 | June 2007
    • Art at your feet
      • While there's a lot going on around the Buckle St section of the bypass, Karo Drive itself is going to take a long time to integrate into the texture of the city (sad, empty buildings don't help). Some citizens have taken things into their own hands and decided to give that most anonymous and downtrodden of icons, the pedestrian walkway pictogram, a bit of individuality.
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      • art
      • bypass

    • Kumutoto khazis
      • It may not have as rarefied a subject as the Memorial Park, but there has been another design competition going on: an internal contest among staff at Studio of Pacific Architecture, who have co-designed the public space at Kumutoto, for a combined public toilet and "folly" to go near the southwest corner of the Steamship Wharf building.
      • Tagged as:
      • architecture
      • waterfront

    • Greening Ghuznee
      • The pavements are still being dug up all along Ghuznee St, four months after the bypass was completed and a couple of months after the "remaining work" was supposed to be done. Some of it is finally starting to look like the pretty renders suggested, though it's hard to tell whether that will make up for the bits where the pavements have been sacrificed for more parking.
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      • blogs

    • Stupidly lazy?
      • A perceptive (though perhaps less than tactful) commenter said, in response to my post on the Johnsonville Town Centre Plan:The major flaw seems to be the assumption that J'Ville becomes a walkable community.
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      • johnsonville
      • transport

    • Building rumours 15: Forest and Turd
      • hanks to DeepRed for pointing this out: the so-called "Te Aro Towers" on the former Forest & Bird site on the corner of Taranaki and Wigan streets.Oh god. I'd been forewarned of its awfulness, but with higher-res images now available it looks worse than I expected. It really doesn't make it easy to promote high density urban living when unimaginative crap like this is what the market provides.
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      • architecture

    • Just the ticket
      • Many thanks to Greg for pointing out something that should be more widely known: for the month of July, Daytripper passes (unlimited bus travel within zones 1-3 after 9am weekdays and all day at weekends) are half price. At $3, that brings it down to the same cost as the carbon-unfriendly cheap weekend parking that was announced with much more fanfare than this bus deal.
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      • transport

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