Introducing South Waikato Junction, and River View (Riverside) & More Insight into Ben’s planning methodologies! City Centres with their density, bustling cosmopolitan life and the chaotic environment need friends. And most often it is the inner suburbs that provide that friendship. Introducing South Waikato Junction and Riverside; with South Waikato to be an inner suburb […]
A game of two halves as work continues on the City Centre Layering the Cake in a game of two halves? Yep that is what it comes down to when building something as complex as your City Centre. In 6.1 I layer some cake as infrastructure work continues for Waikato City Centre. But much more […]
Those colour pens are back out again! If Spatial Planning is about Spatial Form Influencing Behaviour AND Behaviour Influencing Spatial Form, while Land Use Planning is to carry out the Spatial Plan, then what do both have in common? COLUR PENS (and paper)! So, let’s go Spatial and Land Use Planning with a new mod […]
Time for our SECOND review, as Waikato hits LARGE city status #urbanplanning When Waikato was first “reviewed” the city was at medium city status and around 50-62,000 cims. Now, after Part 5 of the Waikato Series heading into Part 6 the City has grown to 173,000 and definitely sits in LARGE city status for a […]
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It is highly frowned upon by the Planning and Engineering Institutes in New Zealand yet is Standard Operating Practice in the Northern Hemisphere whether it be used as a educational tool in High Schools and Universities or as a communication tool by Public Authorities.
Yet despite it being frowned up in New Zealand this fellow Spatial Planner and Urban Geographer has registered himself for the Cities Skylines Cities in a Snap!
What is Cities in a Snap? CIAS is where Cities Skylines players from all round the world come together to compete in who can build the best functional city in two hours – no more – no less.
Winners go through to the finals series where you can become Grand Champion.
There have been outstanding creations so far and all functional in the Cities In a Snap competitions. As I said I have registered myself down into hopefully the March qualifying rounds.
More once the details and contestants are confirmed!
What is frowned upon in NZ is a part of a major community overseas.
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