Auckland Council will invest more than $190 million into upgrading the playing capacity of the city’s sports parks over the next 10 years. This is a prime opportunity to apply green infrastructure philosophies. By Mark Bowater and Tracy Talbot.
Sports parks play a critical role in Auckland Council’s vision to become the world’s...
Developing a green infrastructure policy for the Auckland Council stormwater unit: In the first of a new series of technical briefings we highlight a paper presented at the recent 2016 Water New Zealand Stormwater Conference in Nelson.
Authors: Ian Mayhew (4Sight Consulting); Wolfgang Kanz & Claudia Hellberg (both Auckland Council...
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,...
Auckland Council recently invited Local Government Magazine to join a two-day think-tank looking at how the infrastructure that council provides affects liveability for everyone in the city.
Local Government Magazine sat in as people from council, CCOs, other local authorities, universities, consultancies and contracting firms openly...
