Urban waterfronts are liminal zones of heightened sensory experience, particularly haptic experiences: the immediate bodily experiences of touch, proprioception and kinaesthesia (body position and movement). Such experiences are generated through direct contact with natural and built environments, strongly mediated by cultural and historical meanings, and they are crucial to forming physical and emotional understandings of...

This paper presents findings from a study that includes a new investigation of the Tarikaka settlement in Wellington, New Zealand. The housing settlement was constructed in 1928-29 by the Department of Railways with the houses rented to their workers.

The chosen area of study is the brick chimney which provided heat, hot water and cooking facilities in the timber houses of Auckland 100 years ago. Demolition of these chimneys is common as adaptive reuse of the older houses of Auckland occurs. The number of chimneys present in four representative streets will be counted, using...

Public spaces are seen as expressions of the local community and, in many instances, of the wider society in which they exist. Streets bring people together as they travel from place to place, using the street as its most common function, that of movement. Because people move along the street businesses set up to offer...

This paper explores the nature of a landscape design and planning process that could ensure the resilience and sustainability of suburban public space, and presents an argument that: