by Rodney District Council | 9 Sep 2011 | Development design guide
Rodney District Development Design Guide Part 3 Issues that affect all development types Site and context analysis The most critical element of successfully designing to avoid, remedy, or mitigate adverse effects lies in understanding how a proposal will react and...
by Rodney District Council | 9 Sep 2011 | Development design guide
Rodney District Development Design Guide Part 3 Issues that affect all development types Defining the use and ownership of space The clear definition of space between areas of private and public use is the single most critical element of functional built environments....
by Rodney District Council | 9 Sep 2011 | Development design guide
Rodney District Development Design Guide Rodney is currently the second fastest growing district in New Zealand. Reflecting this, there is increasing demand for development of all types. This demand brings with it many opportunities to further improve the quality of...
by Rodney District Council | 9 Sep 2011 | Development design guide
Rodney District Development Design Guide What is social, economic, and cultural well-being? The Resource Management Act definition of sustainable management (section 5) focuses on social, economic, and cultural well-being. This is a very broad outcome and people with...
by Rodney District Council | 9 Sep 2011 | Development design guide
Rodney District Development Design Guide What is urban design? Urban design is broadly defined within the Ministry for the Environment’s Urban Design Protocol: Urban design is concerned with the design of the buildings, places, spaces and networks that make up our...
by Cimino | 5 Sep 2011 | Nuclear power
It will shortly be four years shy of half a century. In November 1965, the United States president’s science advisory committee warned: Carbon dioxide is being added to the earth’s atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil and natural gas at the rate of 6 billion tons...
by Cimino | 28 Aug 2011 | Motorway, Science
It would cost about 7% of the planned Pūhoi–Wellsford motorway. But rather than generate more greenhouse gases and trust to luck that its ministers will never have to face an international climate court, the government could fund an urgently needed and long overdue...
by Cimino | 24 Aug 2011 | MMP
There is nothing put at risk, bar the possible dashing of preconceptions. Such is the beauty of models; they allow scenarios to be explored virtually, at very little cost—once the software has been written, the model can be run again and again with the only...
by Cimino | 22 Aug 2011 | Climate and neoliberalism
Dogma continues to dog civilisation. An example is the market-forces mantra that governments should resile from picking winners, because they invariably get it wrong. Such dogma flies in the face of the wealth of examples of governments getting it gloriously and...
by Cimino | 19 Aug 2011 | Visitor strategy
As visions go, it is less than galvanising. It presumably is not intended to form part of any promotional material for the area. Aside from being bland, the 58-word vision statement set out in the draft Pūhoi to Pakiri Region Visitor Strategy 2012–2017 could apply to...
