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 […]