Note the full report on New Zealand’s Rack-Rent Housing Crisis can be read here. Nice work Brendon. Just need to start building at the low price end and offering finance to purchase/rent to buy/or simply rent. My observations are that: 1. Rents are way too high (Christchurch rents are starting to soften…

Rural and urban people when surveyed indicated the main good thing of living in a city was convenience and access to amenities, while the main negative thing was bad traffic, traffic jams and public transport. This paper is effectively part two of the Christchurch the Chicago of New Zealand paper…

It is just so weird to me that not too long ago someone with a regular old job could buy a house like an entire house with just their job money I hate media reports celebrating rising house prices, such as, “Will the average house price in Christchurch hit $1m…

The early use of government land sales as a land value capture instrument had a decisive effect on Canterbury’s transport spatial planning history. The establishment of rail in the region illustrates this well. Canterbury Rail-era from 1857 In 1857, the Canterbury province decided to construct the 2.6 km Lyttelton rail tunnel, a major evolution…

Case Study: Kashiwonoha Campus Station — Kashiwonoha campus station is located 32 km northeast from central Tokyo. The campus station land readjustment project is part of the Tsukuba Express suburban railway that opened in 2005. This is a 58.4-kilometre line which offers 130 kilometre an hour passenger services between central areas of Tokyo and multiple satellite…

“The American real-estate industry believed segregation to be a moral principle. …

Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves ~ Jane Jacobs Recently there was bipartisan support for…

“Water is the driving force of all nature.” — Leonardo da Vinci Local Government Minister Nanaia Mahuta has announced in December the Government will legislate to create four new water entities that will take on the water assets currently owned by councils. Controversially the government has decided that local government…

Design a thing by considering it in its next larger context — a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in a community, a community in a city… Eliel Saarinen Executive Summary Canterbury has a neglected transport system that isn’t fit for purpose, whether it be meeting New…