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Green infrastructural urbanism and climate change = 绿色基础设施城市主义和气候变化
(Beijing Forestry University, 2021-09-18)[Article has Chinese language version first followed by English translation] 气候变化产生的环境影响：雨水污染加剧、城市洪水、海平面上升和城市热岛效应，已成为全球性问题。绿色基础设施（GI）越来越多地被推广为解决气候变化导致的环境恶化的“灵丹妙药”，尤其是在城市地区。 城市本质上为高密度且不透水的空间，仅有少量的绿地来吸收预计增加的降雨量。位于沿海地区的城市容易受 ... -
Being (back) there : travel sketches that evoke a previous temporality
(AP2 Open Access Journals, 2020-12-30)During the recent Covid-19 lockdown I stumbled upon an sketchbook of my first trip overseas to the USA (in 1986). More particularly my month long stay in Manhattan, (where one didn’t need a car to get around). Within this ... -
Onehunga waterfront and climate adaptation : a Unitec Landscape/Architecture studio
(2021-03-18)This paper discusses the potential of a landscape/architecture student joint studio to develop design strategies for a waterfront development that adapts to the environmental challenges of climate change. The authors ... -
Hīhīaua : a Unitec Landscape / Architecture Studio
(Unitec Institute of Technology, 2017-11-21)In 2015 Whangārei District Council initiated the development of an urban strategy document for the development of the city centre. The Hīhīaua Peninsula was identified as a site for a waterfront development. The proposed ... -
Linear City - Water City : how can an exchange between landscape and infrastructure generate an alternative Auckland Plan?
(Unitec Institute of Technology, 2014)In 2011, Auckland consolidated its seven councils and the regional council into a single governing entity – the Auckland Council. Effectively, four cities and three rural districts were meshed into one city - ... -
Wild spirits : the remarkable heritage of Waikumete Cemetery is very much alive, in its joyous array of wildflowers
(Fairfax Magazines, 2014-02)The burst of colour that comes with spring is much anticipated by gardeners, and when that patch of colour is found outside the garden boundary – in an entirely unexpected place – the pleasure seems somehow intensified. ... -
In the public realm
(AGM Publishing Ltd. & New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects, 2014)Renée Davies attended the 51st IFLA World Congress 'Thinking and Action ; Earth, Home and Landscape of Places' in Buenos Aires, Argentina and encountered a rich platform of ideas and inspiration. -
A delicate balancing act
(Unitec Institution of Technology, 2016)This paper examines a bicultural approach to the development of planting strategies for landscapes and asks the question: In what ways can vegetation help to create a bicultural landscape? The case studies discussed include ... -
Inconsistent coherence in post-quake Christchurch, New Zealand
(University of Moratuwa (Sri Lanka), 2016-04)This paper discusses some of the complexities of interactions between people and places in the making and remaking of cities. The paper uses as a case study, Christchurch, New Zealand, which has in the past had the reputation ... -
Landscape and cultural exchange [: landscapes of prophecy]
(Unitec Institute of Technology, 2015-11-11)This paper proposes the use of prophecy as an investigative tool for landscape analysis and explores how it could produce more culturally meaningful landscape outcomes. It investigates the relevance of indigenous prophecy ... -
Cultural emergence : living in Aotearoa
(Unitec Institute of Technology, 2015-11-11)Treaty settlements in Aotearoa New Zealand have not only changed the economic base of Māori groups, but have also provided a catalyst for social, political, cultural and environmental change. The post-settlement period is ... -
A new peri-urban agricultural system for Auckland
(Unitec Institute of Technology, 2015-11-11)With population growth predicted for Auckland, there will be a rise in the food production required to feed the city. Auckland is already the country’s largest customer of food markets, but the fossil fuel based agricultural ... -
Auckland volcanic field build resilient framework on public open space
(Unitec Institute of Technology, 2015-11-11)Auckland is a city built on volcanoes. Although the special volcanic landscape has brought benefits such as attracting foreign tourists and providing leisure for residents, it also brings potential risks. Volcanic eruption ... -
The emergence of a green network for a future regional Auckland
(Unitec Institute of Technology, 2015-11-11)This paper discusses how a green network for regional Auckland could emerge from a close study of both the ecological and social forces at work in contemporary New Zealand urbanism. The paper begins by reviewing the ... -
What is bottom-up design?
(Unitec Institute of Technology, 2015)There is a substantial body of research that points to energy descent (1,2,3,4,5). In lieu of this, other significantly different forces could drive a number of changes to current thinking in landscape architecture. Examples ... -
Drawing as a fundamental tool for thinking in landscape architecture
(2015)This paper considers the role of drawing and representation as a tool for capturing the more ephemeral aspects of the landscape. These aspects include ideas about change, chance and transformation. The importance of ... -
Revealing the Rainforest - discovering the dynamic interchange between landscape and culture
(Unitec Institute of Technology, 2014)Landscape architecture embodies the symbiotic relationship between society and environment and this human-nature interaction is manifest at its most profound within those places that are referred to as cultural landscapes. Within ... -
The Polycentric City: What does it mean for Christchurch?
(Studio Christchurch:, 2014)Almost three years after the Second Earthquake, it is becoming clearer that the CBD has a long way to go to full recovery. It may take 20 rather than 10 years before a new Central City Christchurch emerges from the present ... -
Sydenham 2020 - Industrial Occupation
(Studio Christchurch:, 2014)East Sydenham, traditionally a working class area on the southern fringe of Christchurch is today an inner city suburb with interesting potential for redevelopment. South of Moorhouse Ave, it reveals a remarkably consistent ... -
Suburban interventions : understanding the values of place and belonging through collaboration
(Unitec ePress, 2012-05-23)How can a socially defined project facilitate meaningful knowledge transfer between community, corporate and institution? In order to address this question, this paper focuses on an ongoing live project in suburban Auckland ...
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