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  • Auckland's Growth on a Runaway Path? (PDF 222.58 KB)

    Published by Resource Management Law Association of New Zealand Inc - May 1995

    This is an abridged version of the speech Winder gave to the RMLA Auckland Branch luncheon. The speech discusses the growth pressures facing Auckland.

  • Curbing the sprawl: Urban growth management in the United States - lessons for New Zealand

    Published by Ministry for the Environment - April 2000

    The Ministry for the Environment's Deputy Chief Executive Lindsay Gow undertook sabbatical study in Minneapolis St Paul, Portland and Seattle to find out how growing metropolitan areas in the US ma...

  • Greenfield Plans Falter at the Implementation Stage (PDF 1.50 MB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - December 2005

    The rate of development on the outskirts of Christchurch City has inhibited the ability of integrated implementation. Several planning ‘hotspots’ exist on the urban edge and the Council has had...

  • Iwitinioplois: Past and Future Urban Regions (PDF 189.34 KB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - March 2000

    This article explores past and future patterns in population growth in New Zealand. The article concludes that the Auckland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty Regions are emerging as the dominant urban sys...

  • Land Capacity Analysis (PDF 1.01 MB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - January 2002

    This article looks at land capacity analysis as an effective planning tool for long term strategic land use planning and urban growth management. The article outlines the Northern Growth Management...

  • Managing Growth (PDF 0.75 MB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - December 2002

    Provides an overview of the Auckland Regional Growth Strategy, describes the development and implementation of the Liveable Communities Strategy 2050 and discusses community reactions to this strat...

  • Managing Growth Pressures (PDF 710 KB)

    Published by New Zealand Institute of Economic Research - July 2005

    This document by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research contains the results of a two-phase study of how regional growth pressures are currently managed. It also looks at whether there are...

  • Measuring urban form: Is Portland winning the war on sprawl? (PDF 1074 KB)

    Published by American Planning Association - 2004

    In this article the authors discuss how to measure urban sprawl and evaluate whether the Portland metropolitan area is winning the war on sprawl.

  • Partnerships in Sustainable Development (PDF 2.58 MB)

    Published January 1996

    Investigates themes such as urban growth, conferences on urban growth, community participation and capacity building, and discusses the brown and green agendas for global sustainability.

  • Peripheral Urban Growth (PDF 416.70 KB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - March 1997

    This article offers a perspective on peripheral urban growth that advocates the employing of a combination of strategies as an effective way of coping with urban growth in major urban centres.

  • Re-establishing a Sense of Community (PDF 0.52 MB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - January 2001

    This article discusses Project 2020, which is North Shore City Council's response to the challenge of the Regional Growth Strategy. The article discusses the village communities on the North Shore,...

  • Te Puke Into the Future (PDF 373.31 KB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - June 2004

    Te Puke is a small rural town known as ‘the kiwi fruit capital of the world’. This town reflects a New Zealand based example of how a vision based approach to strategic planning can feed the st...

  • Urban Design Intervention for Intensive Housing (PDF 0.96 MB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - January 2001

    This article discusses the growing problem of the sustainable management of urban expansion for the large urban centres of New Zealand, with particular reference to Auckland. The article also looks...

  • Urban Growth Management (PDF 311.40 KB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - December 1999

    Urban growth experiences in the United States can have implications on a smaller scale for New Zealand. This paper reviews the current range of urban growth drivers and problems in several key metr...

  • Urban Growth: Is it out of control? (PDF 1.58 MB)

    Published by Resource Management Law Association of New Zealand Inc - January 1996

    This paper looks at urban growth and whether growth is out of control in Auckland. It concludes that growth is not out of control and that adverse impacts need to be managed.

  • Urban Sprawl and Land Use Planning: Implications on Public Health (PDF 1.40 MB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - December 2005

    This article assesses the implications of urban sprawl on public health from a variety of aspects including effects from motor vehicles, effects of land use decisions, impacts on water quality and ...

  • Waimakariri District Council: Identification of Preferred Urban Growth Areas (PDF 56.98 KB)

    Published by Waimakariri District Council - September 2003

    Waimakariri District Council has used its district development strategy to identify preferred urban growth areas. When a request for a private plan change is made for a proposal within one of these...

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