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A participatory approach linking academia and councils
Philippa Howden-Chapman, Jan Logie, Ralph Chapman, Michael Keal, Geoff Fougere, Wokje Abrahamse
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Sustainable Cities workshop to be held in Wellington on March 26th.
This is a one day meeting that is being organised by the Wuppertal Institute in Germany and by Massey University, with support from both the German government and the Wellington City Council. The topic is also becoming increasingly important as will be clear from the introductions to be given by Celia Wade-Brown, Mayor of Wellington, and His Excellency Thomas Meister, Ambassador from the Federal Republic of Germany.
Entry is free, but you are asked to let Oliver Lah know if you will attend the workshop by emailing him at: oliver.lah@wupperinst.org
PDF: Sustainable Cities Workshop 26.03.2012
20 October 2011 – 12:08 pm
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18 October 2011 – 9:36 am
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Angus Hulme -Moir – Thesis
Minimum Parking requirements (MPRs) mandate that each new development provides enough parking to ensure ample provision at the time of peak demand. This approach tends to oversupply parking above the optimal level, and by bundling parking into the development costs, ensures that parking is free to the user. As a result, land-use and transport decisions are distorted. A case study of Porirua central business district (CBD) was undertaken to investigate the use of MPRs in the New ZEaland context, and to assess their impacts on transport and land-use patterns. Findings indicate that MPRs tend to oversupply parking relative to weekly mean and peak occupancies. Land use mapping found that 24 percent of CBD land is allocated to car parking and MPRs were shown to contribute to dispersed development patterns. Stand choice data and a cost recovery model for car parking highlight how free and ample car parking provision favours car driving and has distortionary impacts on travel decisions.
Angus Hulme-Moir
13 October 2011 – 12:37 pm
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Sustainable City 2012, 7 – 9 May, 2012, Ancona, Italy
Call for Papers
This conference aims to address the many inter-related aspects of the urban environment from transport and mobility to social exclusion and crime prevention. The meeting will build on the contributions made in previous conferences, which successfully managed to provide an international view of the problems facing modern cities and their solutions.
Urban areas produce a series of environmental challenges arising from the consumption of natural resources and the consequent generation of waste and pollution, contributing to the development of social and economic imbalances. All these problems, that continue to grow in our society, require the development of new solutions.
http://www.wessex.ac.uk/12-conferences/sustainable-city-2012.html
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This thesis addresses the loss of urban open space resulting from increasing demand for residential floor space within a limited supply of urban land. Demand for floor space is being driven by a number of factors – falling household size (meaning a need for more one- and two-person dwellings and a demand for more floor space per person); a growth in multi-generational households (meaning a need for homes with more than three bedrooms); the trend towards bigger homes; and steady population growth in New Zealand’s main urban centres, especially Auckland.
SJP_Executive Summary of Thesis
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The New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities and Landcare Research is pleased to post this, Wn ChCh Regeneration Book 11
This evidence-based report draws on the collective expertise of over 100 urban researchers, scientists and policy advisors who attended a sustainability workshop in Christchurch in April.
A limited number of printed copies will be available on request
