Christchurch’s Future is a Fat Banana

Christchurch is evolving from a small apple to a fat banana

Can Great Design Help Solve the Housing Crisis?

A Master Planned Block Proposal

Greater transport choice can help revive Christchurch

Rebuilding Suburbia

Perimeter Blocks and Hyperlocalism Can Help

Perimeter blocks and hyperlocalism can be tools that helps convert old suburbia into new livable neighbourhoods.

Streetscaped laneways would be better than infill housing ‘sausage flats’

Beginning to think about intensification at scale

What is the Future of Battery Trains in New Zealand?

Why tax house building in a housing crisis?

Adding fees and uncertainty to building projects is a disincentive to build.

Unravelling the strands of the urbanisation debate

To improve urban performance

Core worldview beliefs are often deeply rooted, and so are only rarely reflected on by individuals.

Do we need to think small to solve big problems like rising housing and transport costs?

Destigmatising Density

There are many proximate causes for New Zealand’s recent disputes about planning permission. The more distal causes are related to New Zealanders collective attitude towards urban development.