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The Breathe Urban Village Competition: Why did it fail to deliver?
No full textSuccessful urban regeneration projects generate benefits that are realised over a much longer timeframe than normal market developments and benefits well beyond those that can be uplifted by a market developer. Consequently there is substantial evidence in the literature that successful place-making and urban regeneration projects are usually public-private partnerships and involve a funder, usually local or central government, willing to contribute ‘patient’ capital. Following the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes that devastated the centre of Christchurch, there was an urgent need to rebuild and revitalise the heart of the city, and increasing the number of people living in or near the city centre was seen as a key ingredient of that. In October 2010, an international competition was launched to design and build an Urban Village, a project intended to stimulate renewed residential development in the city. The competition attracted 58 entrants from around world, and in October 2013 the winning team was chosen from four finalists. However the team failed to secure sufficient finance, and in November 2015 the Government announced that the development would not proceed. The Government was unwilling or unable to recognise that an insistence on a pure market approach would not deliver the innovative sustainable village asked for in the competition brief, and failed to factor in the opportunity cost to government, local government, local businesses and the wider Christchurch community of delaying by many years the residential development of the eastern side of the city. As a result, the early vision of the vitality that a thriving residential neighbourhood would bring to the city has not yet been realised
The sustainability façade: An analysis of the Ruataniwha dam debate
No full textThe sustainability façade: An analysis of the Ruataniwha dam debate'National Party', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/national-party (accessed 19 December 2017
Landscape Architecture Student Choice: Profession or Provider
No full textSecondary school students face many choices about tertiary education. Some will have a career path in mind and choose to attend an institution that offers a relevant programme, while others will choose a programme offered by an institution that has been selected for other reasons. This paper investigates whether students enrolled in one of the three accredited landscape architecture programmes in New Zealand first chose their career rather than first selected an institution. It also reports on the factors that influenced these choices. Ninety-seven first-year landscape architecture students were invited to complete a self-administered questionnaire. Seventy-five per cent chose a career in landscape architecture first, rather than first selecting an institution. In choosing a career, extrinsic motivations were more important than family or institutional influences, but institutional influences were more important than family or extrinsic factors when selecting a provider. The main factors influencing choice have implications for the profession; they also have implications for institutions regarding programme distinctiveness. Many factors play a role in these choices, including selection of subjects at school. Survey respondents reported on their choices of subject at secondary school and the usefulness of those subjects to their landscape architecture programme. A particular combination of secondary school courses may be a useful signal for students to consider landscape architecture as a possible career path
The Garden of Entangled Paths: Landscape Phenomena at the Albany Bulb Wasteland
No full textOver four decades, the Albany Bulb in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States of America metamorphosed from a dumpsite to a thicket harbouring a clandestine community. Since the forced decampment of this spontaneous society, the site has endured as a living ruin that continues to inspire the explorative impulses of visitors. While residual structures and decaying scrap-sculptures represent the tangible face of the site and its heterotopic past, more nuanced underlying landscape phenomena ground this cultural legacy. In exploring these phenomena, this paper offers a counterpoint to the tendency to engage with wastelands programmatically and pictorially while overlooking the influence of the corporeal landscape. The emergent nature of these phenomena suggests that the agency of design might circumvent typically fraught interactions with undesigned waste-scapes by assuming characteristics of the gardener
Net Environmental Benefit in Urban Centres
No full textA theoretical model is proposed to assess whether activities associated with urban development create net positive environmental benefits. The rationale is that the application of no net loss and preferably a net gain goals for biodiversity values associated with offsetting development impacts requires a shift away from the usual regulatory pursuit of minimising harm toward requiring benefit. A catchment-based decision-making framework is used to demonstrate the process. Limitations include outcome uncertainty and deciding on baselines related to cumulative effects, and dealing with transaction costs
Making a place for climate-impacted displacement in the Paris Climate Accord
No full textMaking a place for climate-impacted displacement in the Paris Climate Accor
Planning approaches that provide an alternative to modern planning: A critical assessment
No full textPlanning approaches that provide an alternative to modern planning: A critical assessmen