Landscape Architecture Conference Papers
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 resilient waterfront
(2018-04-13)Changes in forest cover Grove Park detention basin Height and FAR (Floor area ratio) -
Collaborative student and community design in a time of climate change : planning a flood-resilient waterfront in New Zealand
(International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP), 2018)The environmental effects of climate change pose numerous issues to urban development located along coastal areas. New Zealand, an island nation surround by the Pacific Ocean, is facing great challenges caused by sea-level ... -
Child-friendly urban design aesthetics : testing a 'shared dialogue' approach.
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018-10)Andy Field is an English performance artist who develops interactive projects that often bring people together in unusual settings and/or couplings to explore relationships between people and place (Field, 2016). For ... -
Agents of change or changed agents? Early missionary landscape translations through knowledge, culture and biota at Bay of Islands Missions, New Zealand
(SAHANZ and Unitec ePress, 2014-08)Transfer implies moving knowledge or objects through space or time – inevitably creating change in the translation process. Vectors facilitate transfer or spread – either as organisms that are agents of change or as a ... -
Bringing schools to life through a co-design learning approach with children.
(Architectural Science Association (ASA), 2015-12)This paper proposes that incorporating professional expertise (e.g. landscape architects and architects) in school ground greening projects, with a commitment towards engaging in a democratic ... -
Therapy in translation : landscape Ideas from the Whau Lunatic Asylum and Unitec Campus.
(SAHANZ and Unitec ePress, 2014-08-07)As noted by Julian Raxworthy,1 landscape architecture is different from other design discourses, notably architecture, because of its utilisation of ‘dynamic’ construction media such as plant materials, soils and water, ... -
Storm water management and improvement case of Freemans Bay Auckland
(2015-06)Freemans Bay is a vast and recovered industrial zone, encompassed by a petrol chemical storage facility and a tank farm. Major storm water outfall from the surrounding Freemans Bay catchment can cause contamination in the ... -
Under the Mountain - how a volcanic peak has influenced the culture, ecology and landscape history of Taranaki, New Zealand
(International Federation of Landscape Architects Asia Pacific (IFLA - Asia Pacific), 2015-09-07)Mount Taranaki/Egmont occupies a central place in the history and culture of Taranaki people – Maori and European. The mystical qualities of the volcanic mountain have influenced the culture, ecology and landscape history ... -
Preserving a green space network for a regional Auckland
(2015-11)As the largest urban region of New Zealand, Auckland is well known for its unique lifestyle with a clean, green environment. However, rapid urban growth and horizontal urban sprawl is threatening the very lifestyle that ... -
Unitec campus history : notions of therapy
(2015-03)One of the great things about working in one place for a long time is that you really get to observe it in detail, in all the seasons and over the years and you get opportunities to soak up the character of the place. ... -
The tempered edge : waterfront development in an age of climate change.
(Finland Futures Research Centre, 2014-06)Urban waterfront development has followed the Baltimore waterfront model since the 1970s. This model is characterised by the formation of a thin promenade of public space with carefully choreo- graphed event architecture, ... -
'Same, same, but different' : a comparison of rationales between historic and contemporary school garden development
(International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), 2015-06)School gardening projects are on the rise and as the current school garden movement reaches into its third decade, this is an opportune time to consider the involvement of Landscape Architects (LAs). As design specialists ... -
Swarm planning : development of generative spatial planning tool for resilient cities
(eCAADe (Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe), 2015-09)In dealing with unexpected impacts of climate change current spatial planning tools are irresponsive and inflexible. The outcomes of applications of these tools are very limited in number, producing static plans that if ... -
The Garden City of the 21st century
(International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), 2002-07)In 2014 the prestigious Wolfson Economics Prize (2014) was awarded to David Rudlin of URBED, for answering the question “How would you deliver a new Garden City which is visionary, economically viable, and popular?” The ...
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