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Zeroing in: A community-based approach to the design of public space for zero-carbon living
(Architectural Science Association and RMIT University, Australia, 2022-12-01)This paper addresses our need to shift to a zero-carbon lifestyle. It begins by considering how public space can contribute to this and what other cities are doing about it. A case is then made for a community-based ... -
Status and implementation of integrated green-grey infrastructure in residential street retrofitting
(2022-12-02)Since the early 20th century, residential streets in low-density suburban neighbourhoods in developed countries have been designed as car-oriented, wide, paved spaces. These conventionally designed streets have increasingly ... -
Space for zero: A Masters in Landscape Architecture research project
(2022)RESEARCH QUESTION How will net-zero living impact the design of urban public space? ABSTRACT This research addresses our need to shift to a net zero lifestyle. It considers how public space contributes to this and ... -
Affected by covid-19: Investigating how to improve the resilience of existing parks
(2022)RESEARCH QUESTION How can public parks be more resilient to epidemic crises through their design? ABSTRACT Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in 2019, for the whole world, life has changed. This disease is currently spread ... -
Using green infrastructure to improve water quality in Napier
(2022)RESEARCH QUESTION How can we use green infrastructure to improve the stormwater quality in the suburb of Ahuriri? ABSTRACT Due to changes in the world climate, Napier, a city on the west coast of New Zealand is facing ... -
The green guards: Mitigating urban heat island by small scale green interventions in high-density urban areas
(2022)RESEARCH QUESTION How do small green space interventions alleviate UHI effect in high-density urban areas with limited spaces in Lanzhou, China? ABSTRACT The development of urbanisation brings not only many benefits ... -
Gardening the interior: Odo Strewe inside the 1960s
(Victoria University of Wellington, 2022-12-13)Odo Strewe arrived in New Zealand in 1938, a refugee from Nazi Germany. After release from internment on Matiu (Somes Island) as an Enemy Alien during World War Two, he married and moved to Auckland where he started a ... -
Managed retreat: Climate change and the polycentric urban region
(2022-10-12)The things that made Tāmaki Makaurau so desirable to Māori and Pākehā now make the city vulnerable to the effects of climate change; sea-level rise and flooding. Let’s think about how we as LAs engage with a potentially ... -
Urban flood adaptation plan
(2022)RESEARCH QUESTION How can climate change flooding be ameliorated through urban design? ABSTRACT As Aotearoa moves into the era of climate change, our urban landscapes are becoming more vulnerable to flooding. Along ... -
Green infrastructural urbanism and climate change = 绿色基础设施城市主义和气候变化
(Beijing Forestry University, 2021-09-18)[Article has Chinese language version first followed by English translation] 气候变化产生的环境影响:雨水污染加剧、城市洪水、海平面上升和城市热岛效应,已成为全球性问题。绿色基础设施(GI)越来越多地被推广为解决气候变化导致的环境恶化的“灵丹妙药”,尤其是在城市地区。 城市本质上为高密度且不透水的空间,仅有少量的绿地来吸收预计增加的降雨量。位于沿海地区的城市容易受 ... -
The fires of ambition: Te Awa Tupua 2040
(2021)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can New Zealand cities be decolonised to re-establish mana whenua ahikātanga? SUB-QUESTION: How can design based on Whanganuitanga re-establish mana whenua ahikātanga at Pākaitore? ABSTRACT: Since ... -
Safer cycling networks in Auckland
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can cycling networks become safer in Auckland? ABSTRACT: High-density cities worldwide are trying to reduce the amount of motorised transportation mode usage and use a sustainable alternative ... -
Identifying the barriers to building back better : a case study of Christchurch (Ōtautahi), New Zealand
(2019-07)BROAD FOCUS: how to build sustainability into the city of Christchurch following the 2010-11 earthquakes NARROW FOCUS: the place of renewable energy in this process RESEARCH METHODS: • Key-informant interviews ... -
Being (back) there : travel sketches that evoke a previous temporality
(AP2 Open Access Journals, 2020-12-30)During the recent Covid-19 lockdown I stumbled upon an sketchbook of my first trip overseas to the USA (in 1986). More particularly my month long stay in Manhattan, (where one didn’t need a car to get around). Within this ... -
A collaborative design studio approach to safeguard waterfront resilience in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
(International Society Of City And Regional Planners (ISOCARP), 2020-12)This paper discusses the potential of an interdisciplinary design studio to develop innovative thinking in response to the climatic and social challenges facing contemporary waterfront redevelopments. Climate change has a ... -
Ngā kite hauora nō Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Pourewa Gardens : blending Māori tradition and contemporary design towards a healthier future for Ngā Uri o Tūperiri
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can mātauranga Māori guide the development of a contemporary multi-purpose garden for Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei? ABSTRACT: Gardens were critical to Māori survival in Aotearoa New Zealand since their ... -
Nature’s prescription : making room for green spaces in highly dense cities to combat urban stress
(2021)Continuous urban growth and sprawling city development in the outskirts of Metro Manila means less and less areas to develop and thus the city is left with few open green spaces. Despite of being the nation’s major center ... -
Landscape regionalism : sketching Auckland as a resilient city-region
(2020-10-02)Conventional urban and regional planning is dominated by economic development agendas and ignores urban growth issues resulting from complex geography and landscape. This paper proposes an alternative approach, based on ... -
Onehunga waterfront and climate adaptation : a Unitec Landscape/Architecture studio
(2021-03-18)This paper discusses the potential of a landscape/architecture student joint studio to develop design strategies for a waterfront development that adapts to the environmental challenges of climate change. The authors ...