The Open Space Plan

While the shape of this city is a curse for trans­porta­tion plan­ners, it is a bless­ing for any­one who even just occa­sion­al­ly wants to get out­side, because the city’s edges are close by and full of oppor­tu­ni­ty. We don’t all take advan­tage of this though. There’s lots of good and bad rea­sons why peo­ple don’t, […]

A bunch of reasons to get outdoors

Look at that weath­er. Just LOOK AT IT. Woah! We’re going to assume from all the cars parked in Thorn­don that you’re already going to Gar­den Mag­ic events in the dell as part of  Sum­mer City,but here are some oth­er things you might wan­na con­sid­er: Pos­i­tive­ly Pasi­fi­ka: The win­ner of New Zealand Idol is going, […]

a visit to Zealandia

Over East­er, the weath­er sud­den­ly went all set­tled and warm. This is per­haps not unusu­al for autumn, but giv­en the crap sum­mer most parts of the coun­try have had for the past few months it was some­what unex­pect­ed. In fact the fore­cast for East­er was so dire that it played a rea­son­able part in us […]