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 critically assesses New Zealand’s legislative and policy framework for climate change mitigation, using New Zealand's largest city Auckland as a case study.

This paper unpacks the rhetoric and discourses around two distinct approaches regarding affordable housing in Auckland, New Zealend to better understand the policy options being pursued and the storylines behind them.

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 extracts key findings from a larger research project investigating three cases studies of medium density housing in Auckland. The project investigated the efficacy of the underlying urban planning tools to deliver the compact urban form; resident perceptions of living in their medium density accommodation and the associated town centres; and understanding the price...