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Is Urban Design a Universal Language with Local Dialects?
Kobus Mentz delivered a number of key-note lectures and studio visits at six universities over just two and a half weeks in China, Africa, and Australia, before stepping into the Auckland urban design masters studio the day after his return. These institutions are all grappling with significantly different cultural and economic challenges. In China the […] more...
Urbanismplus Award for Excellence in Urban Design
In 2007 Urbanismplus established an award for excellence in urban design studies. This year’s recipients, Amy Zhu and Cameron Wallace, describe their projects below: Amy Zhu – Middlemore Town Centre Project I identified Middlemore as a strategic site for intensification, in the context of the Auckland Spatial Plan’s intensification strategy. It is well connected and […] more...
University of British Columbia Link Secured
A formal link between the University of Auckland (UoA) Masters of Urban Design and the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver has been established. The relationship was initiated by Kobus Mentz and secured by Prof. Errol Haarhoff, Prof. John Hunt and, Lee Beattie, Deputy Head of Planning Programmes at UoA, and cemented by a joint studio project […] more...