The city’s new underground rail stations are also impressive public spaces, showing how infrastructure can go well beyond the functional bare minimum.
Articles on Auckland
Displaying 1 - 20 of 22 articles
New research highlights the overlooked role of road dust in Auckland’s air pollution, with heavy vehicles having an outsized impact.
Auckland has settled on how congestion charging could work. But overseas experience shows the alternatives to driving are just as important.
Interviews with 55 Aucklanders reveal how gaps between housing, health, income and justice services can make it harder to find a path out of homelessness.
A rediscovered academic paper from 1921 suggests New Zealand’s classic ‘fush and chups’ vowel sounds may have emerged fastest in Auckland’s colonial melting pot.
Past, present and future intersect at 18 Wynyard Street, where Māori and European stories are entwined in remarkable ways.
Strong public reporting has helped locate and destroy early nests. Sustained effort over the next few months will determine whether eradication succeeds.
The cost of ‘network disruption’ due to accidents is more than normal estimates suggest, casting doubt on the logic of raising speed limits to boost productivity.
Other countries have learned to harness the economic and cultural energy of their super-cities, but New Zealand is held back by Auckland’s failure to thrive.
Shared e-scooters are much more regulated and monitored than privately owned e-scooters, which are likely to pose greater risks as a result.
Changing work habits and shifting environmental priorities demand new models of urban redevelopment. Architectural ‘exaptation’ uses the past to reimagine the future.
Despite multimillion dollar price tags, rugby stadiums rarely cater to events outside of the sport. So why should communities cover the hefty bill when there is limited benefit to the wider community?
By moving to scrap the Auckland regional fuel tax, the government continues a decades-long pattern of transport policy U-turns that leave the city – and country – without a sustainable way forward.
New Zealand’s Medium Density Residential Standards already didn’t go far enough. But by abandoning bipartisan support for them, National risks throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
After a successful trial, an on-demand public transport service in Auckland has been optimised to increase patronage – without the cost of buying new vehicles.
The debate over new urban density rules is further dividing an already divided city. The challenge for Auckland is to stop social and spatial fragmentation being baked into its character forever.
A single open-air car park takes up land that could potentially house hundreds of people.
Auckland has risen to the top of a global liveable cities survey on the back of the country’s pandemic response. But that’s not the full picture.
The America’s Cup challenges have been key to Auckland reclaiming its waterfront to give the public a chance to see more of the racing.
Genetic analysis of virus samples from New Zealand’s latest COVID-19 cases is now much swifter. It’s providing key information, but hasn’t yet answered the question of where this second wave started.
Top contributors
-
Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
-
Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
-
Lecturer, Environmental Planning, University of Waikato
-
Senior Researcher in Architecture & Urban Design
-
Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology
-
Senior Lecturer in Marketing , University of Otago
-
Adjunct Researcher, Cities Research Institute, Griffith University
-
Professor of Ecology and Entomology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
-
Dean of Creative Arts & Industry, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
-
PhD Candidate in Māori Studies, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
-
PhD Candidate in Law, Charles Darwin University
-
Professor in Transport Management, University of Sydney
-
Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Engineering and Design, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
-
Lecturer Mental Health and Addictions, Auckland University of Technology
-
Researcher | Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology