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    Linear City - Water City : how can an exchange between landscape and infrastructure generate an alternative Auckland Plan?

    Bradbury, Matthew; Bogunovich, Dushko

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    2014
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    Bradbury, M. A., & Bogunovich, D. (2014). Linear City - Water City: How can an exchange between landscape and infrastructure generate an alternative Auckland Plan?. X-Section Journal, 4 (Exchange), pp.1-4.
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    Abstract
    In 2011, Auckland consolidated its seven councils and the regional council into a single governing entity – the Auckland Council. Effectively, four cities and three rural districts were meshed into one city - region, with million and a half inhabitants. For a year the new Auckland Council worked on the Spatial Plan, a document to guide the development of a city expected to gain an extra million inhabitant in 30 years. The plan advocates a ‘compact city’ model, loosely based on New Urbanist thinking. The plan proposes a rough 70 - 30% split of development - 70 % within the existing cities boundaries , and 30 % outside. This paper outlines an alternative growth strategy for Auckland to the official ‘compact city’ vision. Our proposition recognizes that the link between density and sustainability is much weaker than commonly understood. It also anticipates that the topology and technology of urban infrastructure is bound to profoundly change over the next couple of decades. This will further entice the centrifugal rather than the centripetal forces in the shaping of metropolitan form. We argue that the next million inhabitants of Auckland should be allocated, roughly evenly, to four main zones of the city - region: urban, suburban, Peri-urban and ex-urban.
    Keywords:
    Auckland, New Zealand, compact city, planning future, linear city, water city, high density, low density, spatial plan, decentralization, Auckland Plan (2011)
    ANZSRC Field of Research:
    120507 Urban Analysis and Development
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