What's the Shape of Our City Tomorrow?
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Planning for Growth Live It’s arrived. When A vision about how our city will look 30 years from now 6pm–7.30pm is taking shape, and we’re keen to know what you think. Thursday What’s the 13 August Wellington City Council is planning for 50,000 to 80,000 more people in the next 30 years. We know that people shape of want to see growth happening around the central city and Where suburban centres. That’s great for keeping our city compact, Te Papa and our city vibrant, and reducing cars on the road, but it means change live streamed for inner-city character, and higher buildings in lots of our tomorrow? residential areas. Register for a spot in the live audience. Join us online. Register at www.eventbrite.co.nz Isabella Cawthorn Gerald Parsonson Arron Cox Isabella Cawthorn is a highly-regarded facilitator Gerald Parsonson is director of Parsonson Arron Cox is a policy specialist for Generation Zero and consultant on the human aspects of street Architects, a seven person practice that works in in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington). With interests change, and editor of the urban blog Talk Wellington. an environment of collaboration, creativity and in transport, urban design and land use policy. He’ll Hailing from and living in Porirua, and working out sustainability with an interest in exploring the ‘spirit share his vision for Te Whanganui-a-Tara in 30 years of Wellington, she experiences daily the good, bad of place’. Gerald is an arts advisor to the Wellington an accessible and liveable city that has undertaken and the ugly of both cities’ transport and urban form. Sculpture Trust, an NZIA Fellow and has been a judge a just transition to zero carbon. She’s a longtime advocate for better public kōrero and convenor for the NZIA National Awards program. making cities better places to live. Chris Wilkinson John Milford Rebecca Kiddle Chris Wilkinson is the Managing Director of John Milford is Chief Executive of the Wellington Rebecca Kiddle is a Senior Lecturer, Urbanism Strategists, First Retail Group, well-known for their Chamber of Commerce, Business Central, ExportNZ at the School of Architecture. Her iwi are Ngāti work in developing city and town centre retail Wellington, Central and Hawke’s Bay (BusinessNZ Porou and Ngā Puhi. Rebecca’s research focuses strategies, regeneration and development. Recent network). With extensive experience in the private on: decolonising Aotearoa New Zealand cities and projects have included CBD strategies for Dunedin, sector, he has his eye on growth and opportunity, Indigenous place identities; Māori housing and urban Invercargill and Queenstown, while the company and what it can mean for the business community. design; Spatial Justice; rangatahi involvement in built has also delivered the Night Economy strategy environment decision-making; urban and suburban for Auckland’s CBD. In Wellington it has worked spaces for community building and third places; and extensively in Karori, Berhampore and Tawa, on the politics of the production of place. behalf of Wellington City Council. John Duguid John Duguid is as passionate about the role of urban planning and design in creating and shaping successful towns and cities as he is about his country-of-origin (Scotland). John worked on high profile projects including the transformation of Auckland’s city centre waterfront and the development of the Auckland Unitary Plan. He is the General Manager of the Plans and Places Department and Acting General Manager of the Auckland Design Office at Auckland Council. .