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NZILA 2009 'The Big Picture' Workshop - Queenstown
Held Thursday 2- Saturday 4 April 2009


Grahame Sydney and Brian Turner were guest speakers at the Welcome Function Thursday 2 April 2009

Grahame Sydney keynote speech here
(note this is members only area)

 

Sincere thanks to the Conference Committee, sponsors and delegates who contributed to the immense success of this Workshop


The Southern branch hosted The Big Picture 2-4 April 2009, a workshop style conference with the theme of examining large scale landscape change in New Zealand.

Like many visitor destinations internationally, the growth of the Queenstown Lakes district has been subject to pressures, forces and demands from outside the district and often outside New Zealand. Like New Zealand as a whole, visitor activity and overseas investment (often motivated by the beauty of our landscapes) directly brings economic activity; we rely upon it for our economic wellbeing and survival.

Queenstown Workshop

"The Big Picture" Workshop highlights were many, varied and personal. For many it was Grahame Sydney and Brian Turner's presentation on the opening night. Grahame's one comment sticks more in mind more than others "... green will be but one of the colours in the vast palette, not the only desirable one." - of the Otago landscape how true a word could be said.

The interpretation of the Workshop is best summarised by those present, opinions, impressions, feelings and how one was moved by attending is as personal as the landscape itself. So below is a pictorial essay to leave you to recollect and reflect again on what was a great occasion. Thanks again Ben Espie, Robin Rawson, Luke Porter, Helen Mellsop, Michael Steven, Anthony Rewcastle, Marion Read, Rob Boyd and Jo Dey for making it possible.

more reading:
Grahame Sydney keynote speech here (NB: this is the in the members only area)
Landscape Architecture Magazine Issue #2 (winter 2009 pgs 78-79

Renee with Brian Turner and Grahame Sydney
Thanks to our conference committee
Maccaferri

Sincere thanks to our sponsors

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     click to visit Maccaferri NZ Ltd

Formium Landscape Architecture
Darby Partners Ltd
Morgan + Pollard Landscapes
Lakes Environmental
Opus

The field tours were:

Landscapes of recreation:
Landscapes of rural living:
Landscapes of production:
Landscapes of energy
:

 

 

Landscapes of recreation:

This tour is to touch on issues such as the economic forces that make this sort of development viable, how these forces are changing/might change, energy consumption, the design of these landscapes - deliberately beautiful, the fact that these developments enable a great many people to appreciate these landscapes that would otherwise be the case, how do these developments display New Zealand/Otago particularity.

  

Landscapes of rural living:

This tour touches on issues such as the economic sustainability of farming, the changing of economic conditions that sometimes mean it is no longer desirable, what people want when they choose to live in a rural landscape, tenure review of pastoral leases, how large stations can be sustainably managed into the future with existing/future economic conditions, etc

  

Landscapes of production:

Issues touched on for this tour include the changing market forces through recent history that have led to changing productive use of the land and the resultant changing aesthetics, the part of nostalgia in landscape appreciation - should a landscape pattern be preserved because we grew up with it? The tour will illustrate how market forces determine productive land use and ultimately landscape appearance.

  

Landscapes of energy:

Issues brought into this tour is the seemingly endless increase in energy demand and how this affects the appearance of landscapes, the consequences of flooding for hydro production - has produced amenities that were previously not there in some cases, do people perceive these lakes as natural? - often they seem to, does it matter whether they are natural or not?

  

Lowburn Inlet

Kawarau Arm
 
more photos: courtesy: www.cromwell.org.nz


Clyde Dam

 

Clutha communities prepare to stop dams
Read this story
Courtesy: ODT: 15 Aug 2008

 Conference Committee
 Ben EspieChair
 Robin RawsonTreasurer
 Luke PorterGraphics & booklet
 Helen Mellsop Tour & General
 Michael StevenTour & General
 Anthony Rewcastle Tour & General
 Marion Read Tour & General
 Rob BoydSponsorship and Transport
 Jo Dey General
  
 Queenstown Websites to Visit
 Visit Central Otago - www.visit-centralotago.co.nz/html/bannockburn_central_otago.html
South Island Tenure - http://www.publicaccessnewzealand.com/files/high_country.html
NZILA High Country Landscape Group
Otago Wine History - http://www.otagowine.com/otagowine/history.html
Central Otago - http://www.nzsouth.co.nz/centralotago/

The Queenstown Lakes District has traditionally been the location of vast farming stations since colonial times.

Changing economic circumstances have meant that land management practices that we are all used to growing up with in New Zealand are often no longer desirable to rural landowners;

they no longer happen by default. Alternative ways of using the land resource are increasingly being pursued, whether productive or for accommodating residential living.

An increasing national energy demand and privatised energy production has meant that alternative methods of energy production are appearing in our landscapes.

Again, these do not always accord with the image of these landscapes that we have grown up with.

By the same token, the lakes created by the Think Big energy projects of the Seventies are now forming part of the landscape that a generation of New Zealanders are growing up with and recreating in.

Large scale changes to our landscapes can challenge our values, our sense of beauty and even our own regional identity

The 2009 NZILA workshop conference will explore these issues via site visits and workshop sessions relating to conflicting interests and pressures associated with managing large scale landscape change.


Bannockburn sluicings - now viticultural, previously gold sluicings
 
434ha bought for viticulture resort -
read this story
courtesy: ODT 6/11/08
 

Tenure Review - Mt Dewar Station

Fruit sculpture
 
 
2008 - Auckland 'SHIFT'

 

shift -

held 3-6 April 2008, Hyatt Hotel, Auckland

  


Sincere thanks to our organisers, sponsors, speakers and delegates who brought you SHIFT.

 
 
 

Speaker Profiles and Proceedings here

Referred Papers - here

  
 Sponsors and Conference Committee
   



New Design Practice in the Urban Realm

Currently at the forefront of the public imagination, landscape is a primary means for answering the environmental needs of a diverse and evolving society.

One of the features of recent societal change is a major shift in the landscape potential of our cities. Designers are developing new models of practice that include site-reprogramming, open systems design and performative practices that flow with the requirements of rapid urbanization.

The 2008 NZILA SHIFT Conference will highlight and discuss these emerging modes of design practice in the context of the fluid and unpredictable nature of urban change.

A diverse range of speakers will consider legal and planning implications, contemporary design initiatives, changing technologies and the challenges of serving the needs and interests of society as a whole.

 
 Brought to you by our Conference Committee & Sponsors
 
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 Conference Committee  
 NameOrganisationConference Role
 Rod BarnettAssociate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Unitec New Zealand Speakers and Conference Theme group head
 Sherry Berg Boffa MiskellFinance
 Michael CassidyBoffa MiskellConference Chairman
 Carol DrinnanWaitakere City CouncilConference Secretary
 Shonagh LindsayLandscape Architect/ Communications & MediaMarketing and Publicity Group Advisor
 Lance MillwardLA4 Landscape Architects LtdCollateral, Powhiri & General Group Assistant
 Heidi MonksHeidi Monks Landscape ArchitectAwards Convenor
 Sally PeakePeake Design LtdConference committee member/ sponsorship
assistant
 Mike Thomas-JASMAX Sponsorship group head
 Paula WilkinsonLandscape Architecture Department, Unitec New ZealandSpeakers group assistant
 Jonathan Wong-Boffa MiskellGeneral Advice & Assistance
 Jan WoodhouseWoodhouse Associates Landscape ArchitectsAdvice &
Assistance

held 3-6 April 2008 | Hyatt Hotel | Auckland NZ

 


Speaker Profiles
& Proceedings
See within each speaker's profile area for their proceedings. We will continue to post proceedings as they come to hand, please revisit.


Brian McGrath

Co-founder and principal of Urban-Interface
Brian McGrath is an architect and a co-founder of Urban Interface, a collaborative urban design group exploring social and ecological change through multimedia, and the interrelationship between designed and emergent systems in cities : profile

Conference Proceeding: here

Chris Reed
Landscape Architect, Principal and Founder of StoSS Landscape Urbanism
Chris Reed is founding principal of StoSS landscape urbanism, a Boston-based strategic design and planning studio : profile



Ngarimu Blair
Heritage and urban planner
Ngati Whatua o Orakei Maori Trust Board
Tamaki Makaurau – A Cultural Landscape

Ngarimu Blair is Ngati Whatua o Orakei's spokesperson on heritage and environment. He is a heritage and urban planner specialising in urban sustainability issues and has developed plans for harnessing 21st century technology while returning the dormant values of kaitiakitanga : profile



Penny Allan
Program Director of Landscape Architecture, Victoria School of Architecture, Wellington.
Penny Allan has specialist experience in waterfront design, master planning, urban design, sustainable development, cultural heritage and interpretation. Current Program Director of Landscape Architecture at Victoria School of Architecture, she was formerly Principal of Hassell Pty Ltd, Sydney : profile


Steven Tupu
Steven Tupu is a New Zealand-born, New York based landscape architect.

In 2004 Steven founded terrain-nyc, a landscape architecture practice that focuses on the design and construction of urban landscape architecture and constructed ecologies : profile

Conference Proceeding: here




Mark Fuller
Principal of EDAW Australia

Mark Fuller is an AILA registered landscape architect and architect with over 25 years experience. He has been the master planner and design director for a number of public realm and mixed use and commercial projects in Australia, China, Malaysia and Indonesia : profile

Conference Proceeding: here



Dr Tony Wong
Principal EDAW's studios Melbourne and Sydney

Tony Wong has over 25 years experience in water resource management in rural and urban environments, with a recent focus on the water aspects of water cycle management and Water Sensitive Urban Design (WUSD) : profile


Jacqueline Osty
Principal l'agence

Jacqueline Osty, studied at Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage in Versailles, graduating in 1992. She is one of the best known of the current generation of French landscape architects, and will speak on the competition process and her innovative work in urban areas : profile

Conference Proceeding: here


James A Lord
Surface Design Inc
Re-interpreting Landscapes - A Site Specific and Collaborative Approach

James A. Lord received a degree in Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a professional degree in Architecture from the University of Southern California.

James Lord has extensive experience with large-scale urban design projects, including several award-winning master plans for Auckland’s Waterfront, Long Bay Township and Highbrook Business Park, in New Zealand; the master plan for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games as well as the 120-hectare environmental park associated with World Expo 98 in Lisbon, Portugal : profile

Referred Papers:

The city densifies while the cracks close on relictual play - here
Dr John Clemens (corresponding author) & Dr Shelley Egoz
Community engagement : a mutually beneficial shift in landscape design education - here
Assoc Prof Glenn Thomas & Wes Mortensen
How landscape architecture can effect a shift in attitude towards Auckland's suburbs - here
Sally Peake
The New Zealand Urban Design Protocol and sustainable urban environments - here
Yvonne Weeber

 


NZILA Landscape Charter Workshop
Sunday 6 April 2008 - 10.00 - 12.00

Facilitator Brad Coombs -

Discussion, input, reviewing the draft of the Landscape Charter

 Brad Coombs facilitates the 2007 Charter Workshop at the Landscape of Lifestyle Conference

2007 - Hawkes Bay 'The Landscape of Lifestyle'

THE LANDSCAPE OF LIFESTYLE

NZILA CONFERENCE HAWKE'S BAY 12 - 14 APRIL 2007

Visit Members Only | Members Services Page for proceedings

a selection of speaker & delegate
images

 

 

 

Wine Country. The brand that is Hawke's Bay. Formerly "Sunny Hawke's Bay" then "The Fruitbowl of NZ". Both brands were swept away by a decisive, simple, appealing and insightful slogan that encapsulates the emotion of the product and conjures up images of the landscape that produces it.

'major sponsor'
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But Wine Country is also a landscape of many lifestyles. Just as the agricultural lifestyle and horticultural lifestyle have made their mark on the landscape, so have viticulture and rural/residential subdivision, or "lifestyle blocks". The brand "Wine Country" depends not only on the "Wine" but also the "Country". With tourism a growth industry, along with net migration to the region, maintaining the country to meet the image of the brand is important.

This conference will explore the landscape of lifestyle, the impact that the pursuit of lifestyle is having on the landscape and how the Wine Country brand builds on and depends on this landscape.

A diverse range of speakers will discuss relevant demographic trends, planning and resource management implications, contemporary "lifestyle subdivision" design and development, best practice landscape assessment and photomontage techniques, and more.

For those focused on business, the parallel for professional practitioners will be explored, which is identifying their strengths and subsequent market niche, and how their brand reflects their landscape values.

The conference will also provide an opportunity to discuss and fine-tune the Draft NZILA Landscape Charter, possibly the most significant document the Institute has prepared since the drafting of the NZILA Statement of Philosophy.

A distinctly informal lifestyle is envisaged for the duration of the conference - the venue is a marquee in a vineyard, footwear will be optional, the social schedule will be demanding and the weather in Wine Country can be relied on to be great.

Look forward to seeing you there, and to saying cheers.

 

Proudly supported by:

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2006 - Joint AILA/NZILA 'TIME' Sydney, Australia
click to visit AILA Time Updates

 

Thank you to all delegates who attended who ensured the TIME conference was a great success. Sincere thanks to our colleagues at the AILA for their generosity and warm hospitality. We look forward to seeing you all again sometime in the future.

The book is available for purchase

Download the order form here | Individual papers also available online

TIME

The New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA) in partnership with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) and the Eastern Region of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) wish to invite all professionals involved with the built environment to this international landscape architecture conference.

The conference will explore the effects of TIME through three sub-themes:

TIME as Catalyst
Designing with
TIME
TIMEand Technology


The conference will open with a public lecture on Thursday 25th May 2006 followed by a cocktail reception. This will be followed by the two day (26th & 27th May) conference held within the Darling Harbour Conference Centre finishing late Saturday afternoon.

Above details subject to change over TIME

For updates and more information see: http://www.aila.org.au/time


 


2005 Dunedin 'Looking Forward to Heritage Landscapes'
NZILA "Looking forward to HERITAGE LANDSCAPES" 2005 Conference click here
NEW!
speaker abstracts available + order a CD of full proceedings click here

NZILA ECOPOLIS
- Vision and Means 2004 Conference
click here
EDS Partnered Conference, The New Zealand Coastal Conference | 2004
EDS Partnered Conference,
Reclaiming our Heritage | 2003
NZILA Urbanism downunder 2003
click here

 

"Looking forward to

28, 29 & 30 April 2005 Dunedin, New Zealand

 

HERITAGE LANDSCAPES"
Conference

Kia Ora, Welcome:

On behalf of the Southern Branch of the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects (NZILA), I am pleased to invite you to participate in the NZILA's 2005 conference Looking Forward to HERITAGE LANDSCAPES to be held in Dunedin, 28-30 April. The conference is being held within a significant heritage area, the University of Otago (the country's first university, established in 1869).

I believe the conference organising committee has prepared a programme that will involve speakers who are both dynamic and thought-provoking. The line-up of speakers represents the full spectrum of individuals and organisations that are involved with the recognition, protection and identification of heritage landscapes in New Zealand.

Finally the organising committee has worked hard to create a conference that will not only be stimulating and challenging but will also be memorable to all those who attend. Your attendance will be our reward.

Alan Petrie
Convenor, Organising Committee

Sponsors


The Conference Organising Committee acknowledges and thanks our sponsors for their generous contribution to this conference. Their support has enabled us to provide a comprehensive programme of quality content and excellent value for all participants.


Conference Themes:

  • What do we mean by 'Heritage Landscapes'?
  • Strategies for living with and in Heritage Landscapes
  • Specific engagements of Heritage Landscapes with an emphasis on local examples, resources and responses

This conference will appeal to a wide range of organizations and individuals, including representatives of local, regional and national government agencies, iwi / hapu, community groups, heritage organisations, professionals including landscape architects, urban and resource planners, heritage managers and academics including anthropologists, geographers, designers, educators and historians.


PROGRAMME
The programme featured a line up of key-note speakers representing a spectrum of organisations involved in the recognition, protection, interpretation and management of heritage landscapes in New Zealand. This included several leading international speakers invited to stimulate our thinking and give an international perspective to the discussion.

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS AND PROCEEDINGS NOW AVAILABLE

The 2005 Conference Proceedings have been produced as:

CDRom - ISBN 0-476-01601-0 ($40+ $5pp) and
soft cover paperback book - ISBN 0-476-0160120 ($120+ $10pp)
Please email info@nzila.co.nz if you wish to purchase either publication.

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

PLENARY SESSIONS
Professor Dame Anne Salmond: Ancestors in the land: New Zealand's heritage landscapes
Hon David Benson Pope: Looking forward to heritage landscapes
Environment Judge Shonagh Kenderdine: Heritage landscapes: developing legislative frameworks which allow for protection and change
Geoff Park: Germinal ground - the landscapes of landfall
Ian Smith: The coasts of Southern New Zealand as heritage landscapes
Mick Abbott: Designing heritage: back and forward across the coastal Otago landscape
Tim Heath: Two local case studies at Taiaroa Head and Curio Bay
Khyla Russell: Landscape: perceptions of Kai Tahu I Mua, Äianei, A Muri Ake
Janet Stephenson: Values in space and time: towards an integrated understanding of values in landscapes
Jeremy Salmond: Urban leftovers - heritage carparks and other cultural landscapes
Professor Geoff Kearsley: Heritage Landscapes and Tourism
Di Lucas: Taking up the challenge

URBAN HERITAGE LANDSCAPES
Bridgit Diprose: Uncovering hidden stories within urban heritage landscapes
Bruce Petry, John Adam and Miriam Stacy: Overview thematic history of Christchurch: three perspectives on the landscape
Chris Williams: Heritage and urban trees the biological and political needs
Jenny Moore: Just because its old is it heritage? A review of the Christchurch Botanic Gardens

POSITIONING HERITAGE LANDSCAPES IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF
CHANGING COMMUNITIES AND ATTITUDES.

Roland Foster and Harvey C Perkins: Intellectual Perspectives on the Authentic Bach: Reinterpreting Taylors Mistake
Dr Shelley Egoz and Tara Sieber: "It isn't a village anymore" - The disappearing rural heritage of New Zealand
Niall Simspon: Round peg in a square hole...or how do you fit centre pivots into a colonial farming pattern language
John P. Adam: Endangered gardens. saving the past for the future

CONTEMPORARY HERITAGE LANDSCAPES CASE STUDIES
Richard W Hart: "The Elms" garden heritage management plan
Lisa Grainger: Capturing the essence of our landscape: lessons from the Emerald Isle
Deborah Purss: Heritage landscapes - community ownership and sense of place - A Case Study. Kyla Park - Tuross Head, South Coast New South Wales, Australia
Maria Ignatieva: Case study: heritage landscapes in St.Petersburg, Russia: past and present

MODELLING HERITAGE LANDSCAPES: ASSESSMENT AND COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES
Eugenie Ombler: Photographs tell stories and they also ask questions
Rachel de Lambert, Bruce Petry and Sue Parsons: Character / heritage overlays as a tool to guide the future of traditional town centre 'landscapes'
Craig Batchelar and Te Pio Kawe: Nga Taonga Tuku Iho - taking a big picture view of heritage landscapes
Lars Brabyn: Characterising the natural component of our heritage landscapes

EXPLORING HERITAGE LANDSCAPES: INVESTIGATIONS INTO ITS MEANING AND APPLICATION
Phil Wihongi and Lucy Tukua: Taonga tuku iho - treasures of the ancestors, gifts for the future
Wendy Hoddinott: Passing time: a phenomenological approach to heritage design
Joan Ropiha: Writing about whenua: my journey home to Ngai Tu Ki Mahanga and the Whenua Ki Mahanga
Robin Simpson and Maxe Fisher: Industrialised landscapes; a new beauty, an unclaimed heritage*

PREVIOUS ENGAGEMENTS: THE ROLE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN PAST MAKINGS OF HERITAGE

Jenny Batty: The influence of late 18th to early 19th century landscape theory on Felton Mathew's 1842 proposed plan of Auckland
Sue Wake: Patriotism and play: examples of early 20th century design of parks for children
Matthew Bradbury and Matt Woodside: Harry Turbott, landscape modernist.
Paula Wilkinson: Mary Buckland profiled: the construction of the New Zealand landscape




Links

NZILA: www.nzila.co.nz

City of Dunedin: www.cityofdunedin.com

University of Otago: www.otago.ac.nz

New Zealand Historic Places Trust: www.historic.org.nz/index.html

 

 

2004 Christchurch 'Ecopolis'

 

ECOPOLIS - Vision and Means 2004 Conference

Hotel Grand Chancellor, Christchurch 4-6 April 2004

Click here for abstracts of speaker papers.

Click here for full copies of the 2004 Ecopolis Conference papers. NB: You must be an NZILA member to have access to the members only area where these papers are posted. If you cannot remember your userid/password email the webmaster; or click here to find out more about joining the NZILA.

images from the Ecopolis conference, rollover image for caption

 

 

delegates
Di Lucas & Neil Aitken
Fellowship awarded to Rachel de Lambert with Di Lucas
Fellowship awarded to John Hudson with Steve Dunn
Fellowship awarded to Sarah Collins by  Pete Rough
Garry Moore, mayor of Christchurch  opening conference
Mark Hadlow, MC Awards evening
Renee Lambert & Simon Swaffield
Fellowship awarded to Melean Absolum with Di Lucas
cocktail function
Heidi Monks
Chet
George Malcolm, Jenny Moore and Simon Swaffield
Dushko Bogunovich

ECOPOLIS explored the complexities of our urban future and addressed its social, environmental and economic dimensions. Delegates were exposed to leading urban planning and design advocates who:

  • Provided contextual frameworks to current issues.
  • Explored visions for the future.
  • Shared lessons from completed works or works in progress.
  • Debated issues to be addressed.

1. click here to download programme
2. click here to download speaker profiles

 
 

The New Zealand Coastal Conference
Development and Conservation of our Coasts and Lakesides
August 6 & 7 2004, Waipuna Conference Centre, Auckland

Hosted by the Environmental Defence Society, in association with strategic partners the New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects and New Zealand Coastal Society. This event follows on from last year's successful Landscape Conference, co-hosted by EDS and NZILA .

This conference was all about 'raising the bar' for coastal and lakeside development. Speakers geared up for some dynamic sessions on best practice for these special areas, ensuring sound, quality outcomes. The line-up included John Darby, Principal of Darby Partners in Queenstown, James Lunday from Auckland's Common Ground Ltd, NZILA's Simon Smale and and an interview with Bluewater Holding's Peter Cooper. The Honorable John Tamihere joined us from Parliament, as did the Honorable Chris Carter, Minister for Conservation and Dr Morgan Williams, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.

We brought together resource management professionals from a broad range of backgrounds; landscape architects, lawyers, planners, coastal specialists and engineers, local, regional and central government, Maori, environmentalists and conservationists, real estate professionals and developers. Anyone with a special interest in the New Zealand coast was able to appreciate this conference and what it was trying to achieve.

Click here for Proceedings of the New Zealand Coastal Conference
Visit the EDS website for more information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 


Reclaiming our Heritage
: New Zealand Landscape 2003 Conference

From the successful 'New Zealand Landscape Conference: Reclaiming our Heritage' jointly hosted by The Environmental Defence Society (EDS) and NZILA in Takapuna in July 2003, EDS have now published the proceedings. Click here for more information


Reclaiming our Heritage - RURAL LANDSCAPE PROTECTION
POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS -
This workshop arises from the successful 'New Zealand Landscape Conference: Reclaiming our Heritage' jointly hosted by The Environmental Defence Society (EDS) and NZILA in Takapuna in July 2003
Christchurch Workshop: click here for report on the "NZILA Landscape Protection Workshop" held 7 April 2004

Waikato "The Changing Scene" Workshop


Please visit again soon, report on the landscape management workshop to be posted here
 

Click to see larger photo
Photo courtesy of Environment Waikato
click here for larger image

 
 

Urbanism downunder 2003

Transforming Cities in Australia and New Zealand
Sky City Conference Centre, Auckland, New Zealand - March 2003

The NZILA collaborated with Urbanism downunder 2003 as their 2003 Annual Conference, emphasising the contribution of their membership to creating exciting urban environments and robust public spaces.

Marian Hobbs, Minister for the Environment - keynote speech:

"This is a remarkable congress because it's a first for New Zealand. You've brought together all the professions involved in creating good urban areas – planning, architecture and landscape architecture, urban design, developers. And of course we're all residents so we know what we like and hate.

Your organising committee has involved local government, private practice and academia in producing a stimulating programme.

No one profession can create quality urban areas...." click here to read entire speech

 
 


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