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dc.contributor.authorTurner, David
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-07T22:52:14Z
dc.date.available2021-04-07T22:52:14Z
dc.date.issued2021-03-18
dc.identifier.issn2463-4190
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10652/5260
dc.description.abstractPlanning systems in Auckland have been revised over a decade of complex realignments that followed the amalgamation of the region’s seven cities into a single planning administration. The city’s Unitary Plan, which came into force in November 2016, introduced new rules for housing design across the region, coordinating regional policies for the development of form, growth and density. Since 2016 these policies have been guided by two main drivers: planning for sustainability in the context of an annual rate of growth of 2.5 percent, and an underlying but potent principle of deregulation wherever possible. Sustainable cities, according to current theory, need to be more densely developed than Auckland is, and a healthy market economy needs to have a minimum of ‘red tape.’ To serve both objectives, intensification and deregulation, a new category of higher density housing, terraced housing and apartment buildings, has been introduced, stipulating maximum building heights and minimum floor areas but with no other density controls. This paper identifies two typologies preferred by developers under the new regulations: small apartment blocks and stand-alone, or ‘detached’ houses. The paper discusses the merits of these choices in light of the intentions expressed by the opening sections of the Unitary Plan, and its broader objectives. Conclusions suggest that some aspects of deregulation need to be revisited to protect the city’s housing stock from over-dense developments using inappropriate house types.en_NZ
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherUnitec ePressen_NZ
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen_NZ
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectAuckland Unitary Planen_NZ
dc.subjectAuckland (N.Z.)en_NZ
dc.subjectNew Zealanden_NZ
dc.subjecthousing in Aucklanden_NZ
dc.subjecthousing densityen_NZ
dc.subjecthouse typesen_NZ
dc.subjectstand-alone housesen_NZ
dc.subjectapartment blocksen_NZ
dc.subjecthigh-density housingen_NZ
dc.subjectprivacyen_NZ
dc.titleAnti-social distancing : revisiting Auckland’s Unitary Planen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
dc.rights.holderAuthoren_NZ
dc.subject.marsden1205 Urban and Regional Planningen_NZ
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationTurner, D. (2020). Anti-social distancing : revisiting Auckland’s Unitary Plan, Asylum 2020/4, 146-153en_NZ
unitec.publication.spage146en_NZ
unitec.publication.lpage153en_NZ
unitec.publication.volume4en_NZ
unitec.publication.titleAsylum 2020en_NZ
unitec.peerreviewedyesen_NZ
dc.contributor.affiliationUnitec Institute of Technologyen_NZ
unitec.identifier.roms68612
unitec.relation.epresshttps://www.unitec.ac.nz/epress/index.php/asylum-2020-4-4/en_NZ
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0001-9433-3436en_NZ
unitec.publication.placeMount Albert, Auckland, New Zealanden_NZ
unitec.institution.studyareaArchitectureen_NZ
unitec.institution.studyareaArchitecture


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