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4º Distrito de Porto Alegre: Um panorama histórico-temático dos planos e ações governamentais das últimas três décadas (1991 - 2021) = 4th District of Porto Alegre: A historical-thematical overview of governmental plans and actions of the last three decades (1991 - 2021)
(Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geografico do Rio Grande do Sul, 2022)RESUMO Nas últimas três décadas, uma série de planos e projetos foram elaborados pela Prefeitura de Porto Alegre visando a reestruturação urbana do seu antigo distrito industrial: o 4º Distrito. Através do resgate e análise ... -
Anti-social distancing
(2021-06-17)In this excerpt from the 2020 iteration of Unitec Institute of Technology's recently re-imagined, peer-reviewed journal, Asylum, Dr. David Turner revisits Auckland's Unitary Plan and explores how the housing density changes ... -
Anti-social distancing : revisiting Auckland’s Unitary Plan
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)Planning systems in Auckland have been revised over a decade of complex realignments that followed the amalgamation of the region’s seven cities into a single planning administration. The city’s Unitary Plan, which came ... -
Architecture as a tool for inclusion and community building : Women in Fabrication at Zayed College for Girls
(Unitec ePress, 2021-03-18)Women in Fabrication is a collaborative platform that empowers female high-school students, architecture students and young architects through design and construction. The project partnered with Zayed College for Girls to ... -
Backyard death in Auckland
(Unitec Institution of Technology, 2017-11-21)This paper is an extension of Griffith University urban form professor Tony Hall’s work on private open space. In his book The Life and Death of the Australian Backyard 1 ; and the journal entries Where have all the Gardens ... -
The Brazilian metropolitan regions in the context of the statute of metropolis: the importance of collaborative governance.
(Instytut Metropolitalny, 2016)The current urban situation is represented by issues that go beyond municipal boundaries and by increasingly complex arrangements between cities. Part of this complexity arises from the polycentric character of metropolitan ... -
Can form-based codes be the opportunity to achieve a quality built environment in Aotearoa New Zealand?
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 2023-11-21)This article suggests that our current land-use planning is routinely failing to make good places where people want to live. The inability of land-use zoning to generate mixed-use neighbourhoods is one reason. Instead of ... -
Climate change and housing: Exploring a New Urban model to help build resilience to climate change
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-21)The environmental effects of climate change and the provision of affordable housing are seen as essential yet disparate issues in contemporary urban discourse in Aotearoa New Zealand. We argue that these two critical ... -
A contemporary Pacific village: A proposal
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 2023-11-21)This paper proposes a contemporary Pacific village as a response to the pressing housing issues of Pacific communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. More specifically, the proposal explores this at the scale of a neighbourhood. ... -
Courtyard housing: A mid-density alternative
(AGM A Division of BCI Central, 2022-10-27)At a time when housing markets in Aotearoa New Zealand are slowing down, there might be an unexpected opportunity to revisit some of the regulations that direct our urban housing policies. -
Courtyard housing: A mid-density alternative house-type
(Unitec ePress, Te Pūkenga, 2022-12-27)The main objectives of housing policy in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland are to increase the city’s density and to increase its total stock of affordable housing. In the current market, family housing for lower-priced mid-density ... -
Decolonising and re-indigenising neighbourhood design
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 2023-11-21)How do we create a fairer, more equitable future? How do we create neighbourhoods that serve and nurture us; spaces that reflect us, that bring beauty, that inform our identities? Urbanists are generally reluctant to address ... -
Defining the methodology of integrated research in the process of digital documentation of architectural heritage: case study Lizori, Italy
(University of L'Aquila, Italy, 2019-12)The aim of this paper is to define the methodology of integrated research in the process of digital documentation of architectural heritage. The thematic framework of this work was stimulated by participation in a professional ... -
Density, energy and metabolism of a proposed smart city
(Anglo-American Publishers, 2017)This paper reports on a detailed analysis of the metabolism of the Island City of Mumbai should the Indian Government’s proposal for ‘smart’ cities be implemented. It focuses on the environmental impact of increased ... -
Design dialogues : ambiguity of “design” within Architectural Studio
(2017)The ambiguous nature of the word “design” offers up a complex dialectic dialogue for the architectural studio lecturers to impart to their students. Discussing the “design”, more commonly referred to as the programme or ... -
The design of the Dilworth Building
(Unitec ePress, Te Pūkenga, 2022-12-27)The Dilworth Building was architecture firm Gummer and Ford’s first significant building. It was completed in 1927 and sits on one of the most prominent locations in Aotearoa New Zealand, the corner of Queen Street and ... -
Designing neighbourhoods to facilitate intercultural encounters: Negotiating between self, society and place
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 2023-11-21)Globalisation, and the consequent migratory processes, have radically transformed many countries across the world. A greater number of people with diverse backgrounds have been travelling to more places for numerous reasons. ... -
Developing urban furniture by Unitec students for an emerging urban fabric in Auranga, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland: The socio-ecological dynamics of creative sustainable prototyping production during the Covid-19 crisis
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 2023-11-21)As the number of suburban communities in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland grows, it’s essential to consider the social component when planning and developing these communities in order to improve social resilience and reduce social ... -
Dirt under our fingernails: Daylighting waste at the Dome
(enigma : he aupiki, 2022-03-29)[...] How might this “productivist bias” be countered by taking erosion, breakdown and decay as our starting points? In this article I explore this possibility with respect to a controversial proposed landfill in Dome ... -
Distributed resource centre: A soft Infrastructure for neighbourhood creativity
(Unitec, Te Pūkenga, ePress, 2023-11-21)This article presents the Distributed Resource Centre as a soft, low-cost, generative, and fun decentralised infrastructure for neighbourhood creativity. The article defines the concept (as flow vs stock), outlines some ...
