Billions of dollars of local government infrastructure and assets are at risk from sea level rise, according to recent research by LGNZ and Tonkin + Taylor. The impacts will be most significant for water infrastructure and roads. Thousands of properties and businesses are also under threat. Patricia Moore talks with specialists from four...
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AsureQuality, with a history dating back over 100 years, is best known today for providing assurance services to our food and beverage industry. However, as biosecurity surveillance manager Deirdre Nagle explains, the organisation also provides extensive biosecurity services to local and central government.
“We...
When it comes to public spaces, everybody wants progress, nobody likes change.
So says media manager and engagement strategist Mark Ames. Kathleen Kinney reports on the soft skills needed to handle people’s emotional attachment to places.
There’s no question that undertaking public realm projects – whatever their scale – can...
The benefits of an integrated approach for a multi-jurisdictional metropolitan area.
The Local Government Commission has been working with local authorities in the Wellington region on ways to collectively strengthen and support effective and resilient growth. Recent studies focused on how more integrated planning could help address the...
Shared spaces, special interests and the online conversations shaping our cities and towns. Kathleen Kinney, communications adviser, Boffa Miskell.
Whether it’s shaming motorists who park in cycle lanes and across sidewalks, pointing out the design flaws in less-than-welcoming town centres, or singing the praises of shared spaces on a...
Two and a half years ago, the South Taranaki District Council and the Hawera Business Association commissioned a strategy to redevelop Hawera’s town centre. The Campbell Lane project has revitalised the town centre and re-energised private sector investment. The town’s retail tills are busier than before. And Campbell Lane is just...
Three Auckland projects show how engineering-led projects can evolve through early consultation and involvement of landscape design, low-impact stormwater design and ecology. By Sarah Collins and Larissa Moyle.
We have learned through our experience as landscape architects that infrastructure development or upgrade projects can be...
In the first of our new series focusing on the future, Mary Searle Bell asks what local authorities should expect when it comes to placemaking and urban design.
For James Rosenwax, market sector director for cities at AECOM, great places in our cities are achieved when there is “a mixture of flexibility, spontaneity, diversity,...
Boffa Miskell’s Stuart Houghton challenges councils to get placemaking to a point where it takes care of itself.
When it comes to cities, placemaking as a term and activity has quickly become ubiquitous. So it is rapidly losing its real meaning or sense of purpose, in the way that all fashionable movements and trends inevitably do....
