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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 ... -
Mautu i vae a vaea : weaving Fa'asamoa & landscape architecture
(2020)FESILI O LE SUESUEGA - RESEARCH QUESTION: How might Samoa utilize flooding as an opportunity to re-envision a future that embraces Fa'asamoa? (How can Apia reaffirm Samoan values to conceptualize sustainability through ... -
Designing for dementia : providing public spaces for inclusion, enjoyment and wellbeing
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can public spaces be designed to be friendly for relatively high functioning dementia sufferers? ABSTRACT: Dementia is a syndrome that generally affects people over 65 years of age. Sufferers ... -
Pūtahi a whenua : voices flowing as one
(2020)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can an enhanced tangata – whenua relationship strengthen hapū connection and identity? ABSTRACT: The connection of whānau to whenua is made through interactions of memory, story, affection and ... -
How will the children play? A participatory design response to Auckland's intensification & green space provision
(Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 2019-11)This paper discusses the process followed and the design outcomes from applying data gathered from a performance art-based urban design project (‘Lookout’) shared between children and adults, to the design of a small public ... -
The new urban catchment : cleaning up Cox’s Creek
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTIONS Main question: How can a decentralised design system protect harbour pollution by considering the urban catchment? Sub question: How to solve Cox’s Bay harbour contamination by evolving WSD ... -
Groundwater-architecture : improving the social value of groundwater
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can architecture improve the public awareness, understanding and appreciation of groundwater? ABSTRACT: Groundwater sources are disappearing from highly populated areas around the world. Over ... -
Lookout : applying a process of design participation with children
(2019)RESEARCH QUESTION: How can an alternative participatory process be applied in the design of green spaces for children in Auckland, as it densifies? ABSTRACT: Children face many challenges in urban life today, including ...
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