As a medium-density housing development specifically aimed at young families, Waimahia was developed by a consortium of Māori organisations and community housing providers (CHPs), to provide affordable, quality housing, with a particular focus on meeting the housing needs of low-income Māori and Pasifika families.

Although the service hub concept is most commonly associated with deprived areas of the North American inner city, similar clusters of facilities can also be found in other contexts. In this paper, we conceptualise urban campgrounds in Auckland, New Zealand as small-scale service hubs for long-term residents as well as more transient recreational campers, and...

This paper explores the rhetoric and symbolism of community deployed to sell residential properties at Hobsonville Point, a new government-owned master-planned medium-density development of over 3000 new, 10km to the northwest of Auckland’s CBD.

This paper reports on findings from focus groups with inner-city children 9-12 years conducted as part of the Kids in the City project. As the children talk about their lives, and moving and playing around neighbourhood streets, many describe distress and discomfort as they confront the likes of homelessness, drunkenness, massage parlours and sex shops.

This paper examines residents’ experiences and observations on what makes their neighbourhood pleasant and unpleasant for walking in four Auckland localities with contrasting built environment and socio-economic profiles.