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Auckland housing and travel preferences
A survey of over 3000 Aucklanders reveals new insights into people’s neighbourhood, housing and travel preferences.
Posted in housing & building and news & events and NZ policy issues and research and transport on 7 December 2016 – 3:00 pmSustainable cities one-day courses
We offered one-day courses in February – Signposting the routes to active transport | Green space in the resilient city. Now closed.
Posted in behaviour change and health and news & events and NZ policy issues and transport and urban design on 5 December 2016 – 10:32 amVideo – Sustainable living: Housing, transport and the city
Housing prices around New Zealand are a hot topic. One view is that if we build more houses, prices should come down. But what sort of housing at what sort of densities should we be building? And with the prospect of more housing, what sort of infrastructure will be needed? Ralph Chapman and Morten Gjerde discuss how to incorporate sustainability into our response to the housing crisis.
Posted in housing & building and NZ policy issues and research and transport and urban design and urban governance and video & audio on 4 November 2016 – 2:51 pmLearning from the earthquakes: Community resilience, formation and housing in Christchurch
How did individuals and their communities respond following the 2010/11 Christchurch earthquakes? What has been learnt about how communities develop resilience, how they form, and the importance of house type and tenure in the wake of these events? We held a seminar on these questions with speakers Simon Kingham and Graciela Rivera-Muñoz. View the event video:
Posted in behaviour change and health and housing & building and news & events and NZ policy issues and research and transport and urban design and urban governance on 3 October 2016 – 7:54 amCycling and walking makes healthier NZ cities
A ground-breaking study of New Zealand’s six largest cities has drawn links between high rates of cycling and walking and their residents’ health.
Posted in health and news & events and NZ policy issues and research and transport and urban design on 25 August 2016 – 3:41 pm