Publications

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BBHTC. (2018). Phase 2 Investment Process. Wellington: National Science Challenge 11: Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities.

BBHTC. (2018). Strategy for Phase II: 2019-2024. Wellington: National Science Challenge 11: Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities.

BBHTC. (2018). Revised Tranche 2 Strategy. Wellington: National Science Challenge 11: Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities.

BBHTC. (2015). Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities: Ko ngā wā kaingā hei whakamahorahora. Overview and research plan for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challange. Wellington: National Science Challenge 11: Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities.

BBHTC. (2015). Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities: Ko ngā wā kaingā hei whakamahorahora - Appendices . Wellington: National Science Challenge 11: Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities.

Fitt, H., Curl, A., Dionisio-McHugh, R., Fletcher, A., Frame, B., & Ahuriri-Driscoll, A. (2018). Think Piece: Autonomous vehicles and future urban environments: Exploring implications for wellbeing in an ageing society (Second ed.). Christchurch, NZ: National Science Challenge 11: Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities.

Fitt, H., Frame, B., Fletcher, A., Curl, A., Dionisio-McHugh, R., Ahuriri-Driscoll, A., Baldwin, N. & Hadfield, H. (2018). Four plausible scenarios for transport in New Zealand in 2048. Christchurch, NZ: National Science Challenge 11: Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities.

Curl, A., Fitt, H., Dionisio-McHugh, R., Ahuriri-Driscoll, A., Fletcher, A., & Slaughter, H. (2018). Autonomous vehicles and future urban environments: Exploring changing travel behaviours, built environments, and implications for wellbeing in an ageing society. Christchurch, NZ: National Science Challenge 11: Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities.

Fletcher, A., Fitt, H., Baldwin, N., Hadfield, H., & Curl, A. (2018). Initial scan of policy / issues relevant to autonomous vehicle development and deployment. Christchurch, NZ: National Science Challenge 11: Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities.

Dombroski, K., Diprose, G., Conradson, D., Healy, S. & Watkins, A. (2018). When Cultivate Thrives: Developing Criteria for Community Economy Return on Investment. Milestone Report No. 1 from Delivering Urban Wellbeing through Transformative Community Enterprise, 23pgs. Christchurch: BBHTC

Squires, G. & White, I. (2019). Resilience and housing markets: Who is it really for? Land Use Policy, 81, 167-174. ISSN 0264-8377.

Fredrickson, C. (2018). Land covenants in Auckland and their effect on urban development. Auckland Council technical report, 76pgs, TR2018/013

Fredrickson, C. & Saville-Smith, K. (2018). Covenants and risks to the supply of land for modest homes and affordable housing. Research Bulletin, 6pgs. Wellington: BBHTC.

James, B. (2018). Spaces in contention in the Western Bay of Plenty sub-region: Special Housing Areas and public consultation. 55pgs. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: The Architecture of Decision-Making, Life as Lived Component. August 2018. Wellington: BBHTC.

James, B. & Saville-Smith, K. (2018). Designing housing decision-support tools for resilient older people. Architectural Science Review, 61, 4, 1-8, Published online 2 August.

James, B. & Saville-Smith, N. (2018). Tenure insecurity and exclusion: older people in New Zealand’s rental market. 17pgs. Paper presented to European Network of Housing Researchers Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, 27-29 June 2018.

Opit, S. & Witten, K. (2018). Unlocking transport innovation: A sociotechnical perspective of the logics of transport planning decision-making within the trial of a new type of pedestrian crossing. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: The Architecture of Decision-Making, June 2018. Wellington: BBHTC.

Saville-Smith, K. & James, B. (2018). Resilience, Ageing, and Adapting to Change. In Roaf, S., Brotus, L. & Nicol, F. (Eds.), Design to Thrive - Legacy Document (pp. 47- 50). 33rd PLEA International conference 2017. Edinburgh: PLEA.

Saville-Smith, N. & Saville-Smith, K. (2018). Declining egalitarianism and the battle for affordable housing in New Zealand. Paper presented to European Network of Housing Researchers Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, 27-29 June 2018.

James, B. (2017). Getting the housing we say we want: Learning from the special housing area experience in Tauranga and the Western Bay of Plenty. Paper 1 - National Policy and Initial Local Implementation. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: The Architecture of Decision-Making, Life as Lived Component. December 2017. Wellington: BBHTC

Murphy, L. (2017). Housing affordability, urban planning and Auckland's special housing areas. In: Howden-Chapman P., L Early & J. Ombler (eds.) Cities in New Zealand: Preferences, patterns and possibilities (pp. 67-78). Wellington: Steele Roberts Aotearoa.

Murphy, L. (2017). Land costs and affordability. Build 163, December 2017/January 2018, pp 59-60. Wellington: BRANZ.

Nandedkar, G. & White, I. (2017). Decoding housing messages. Build 163, December 2017/January 2018, pp 52-54. Wellington: BRANZ.

Saville-Smith, K. (2017). Investing in affordable homes. Build 163, December 2017/January 2018, pp 56-58. Wellington: BRANZ.

Saville-Smith, K. (2017). Thinking about the logics of affordable new build delivery: Some preliminary thoughts on the structural position of different types of new-builders. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: The Architecture of Decision-Making, June 2017. Wellington: BBHTC.

Saville-Smith, K., Saville-Smith, N. & Fraser, R. (2017). ADU Potential: Have we the potential to use our existing stock of homes to create a bigger stock of affordable, fit for purpose homes?. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: The Architecture of Decision-Making, December 2017. Wellington: BBHTC

BBHTC. (2016). SRA development: Making the architecture of decisions work for better homes, towns and cities - SRA 1. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA - The Architecture of Decision-Making, June 2017. Wellington: Author.

Saville-Smith, K., Saville-Smith, N. & James, B. (2016). Community housing providers, procurement and the building industry. Report ER21. ISSN: 2423-0839. Wellington: BRANZ

BBHTC. (2018). Māori Housing Think Tank Hui - Wednesday, 24 January 2018. Briefing paper, 6pgs, Wellington: Author.

BBHTC. (2018). Māori Housing Think Tank Hui - Wednesday, 24 January 2018. Hui Summary paper, 9pgs, Wellington: Author.

Menzies, D. (2018). Māori and indigenous housing annotated bibliography. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua (SRA5), 54pgs, Wellington: BBHTC.

Menzies, D. (2018). Ngāi Tūhoe do things differently: Interview with Tāmati Kruger. Culture, Opinion piece article on the Landscape Foundation website https://www.landscape.org.nz.

Smith, J. (2018). Towards a Kaupapa Māori Ako Knowledge Transfer System. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua (SRA5), 11pgs, Wellington: BBHTC.

Menzies, D. (2017). Interview with James Brown, Kaiwhakahaere, Ngāi Tai. Landscape/Opinion piece article on the Landscape Foundation website https://www.landscape.org.nz.

BBHTC. (2018). Māori Housing Think Tank Hui - Wednesday, 24 January 2018. Briefing paper, 6pgs, Wellington: Author.

BBHTC. (2018). Māori Housing Think Tank Hui - Wednesday, 24 January 2018. Hui Summary paper, 9pgs, Wellington: Author.

Kake, J. & Paul, J. (2018). Evaluating the application of Māori design principles to urban neighbourhood development projects to develop a Kaupapa Māori design framework and assessment tools. Paper prepared for 2018 Urbanism New Zealand Conference, 12pgs, Wellington: BBHTC.

Menzies, D. (2018). Māori and indigenous housing annotated bibliography. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua (SRA5), 54pgs, Wellington: BBHTC.

Menzies, D. (2018). Ngāi Tūhoe do things differently: Interview with Tāmati Kruger. Culture/Opinion piece article on the Landscape Foundation website https://www.landscape.org.nz.

Paul, J. (2018). 2018 Youth Assembly at the United Nations. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: Shaping Places: Future Neighbourhoods (SRA4), 16pgs, Wellington: BBHTC.

Paul, J. & Hatton, W. (2018). Te Aranga Māori Design Principles. Article for Landscape Architecture Aotearoa, Auckland: New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects.

Paul, J. & Kake, J. (2018). ICOMOS 2018: Post conference overview. Reflections report for BBHTC on ICOMOS 2018 conference, Culture: Conserving it Together, Suva, Fiji, 1- 5 October 2018.

Smith, J. (2018). Towards a Kaupapa Māori Ako Knowledge Transfer System. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua (SRA5), 11pgs, Wellington: BBHTC.

Henry, E. (2017). Rangahau Māori (Māori Research): An Indigenous Perspective. 18pgs. International Social Innovation Research Conference, Swinburne University, Melbourne, December 12-15, 2017.

Menzies, D. (2017). Assessing the Māori cultural landscape. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: Shaping Places: Future Neighbourhoods (SRA4), 5pgs, Wellington: BBHTC.

Menzies, D. (2017). Interview with James Brown, Kaiwhakahaere, Ngāi Tai. Landscape/Opinion piece article on the Landscape Foundation website https://www.landscape.org.nz.

Paul, J. (2017). Exploring Te Aranga Design Principles in Tāmaki. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: Shaping Places: Future Neighbourhoods (SRA4), 10pgs, Wellington: BBHTC.

Paul, J. (2017). Urban Wā Kāinga: Integrating and embedding Te Aranga and Kaupapa Māori into communities. Negotiated study, Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Hons), 111pgs, Auckland: Unitec.

Whaanga-Schollum, D. (2017). Problematising generic co-design to practice respectful, reciprocal and relational co-design with communities.

Adams, B. & McKenzie, G. (2018). Crowdsourcing the character of a place: Character-level convolutional networks for multilingual geographic text classification. Transactions in GIS, Vol 22, 2, 394-408. doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12317

Berghan, J., Goodwin, D. & Carter, L. (2018). Remaking community: Building principles of communal tenure into contemporary housing developments. In Remaking Cities: Conference Proceedings, pp. 45-51. Melbourne: RMIT university.

Goodwin, D. & Berghan, J. (2018). A planning model to incorporate socially-based tenure principles into mainstream planning. FIG Congress 2018, Embracing our smart world where the continents connect: enhancing the geospatial maturity of societies. Istanbul, Turkey, 6-11 May 2018.

Ivory, V., O’Donnell, K. & Schindler, M. (2018). Potentials, problems and possibilities for developing New Zealand’s built environment through high-value geospatial information. Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online. DOI: 10.1080/1177083X.2018.1538053

Schindler M., Dionisio R. & Kingham S. (2018). A multi-level perspective of a spatial data ecosystem: needs and challenges among urban planning stakeholders in New Zealand. International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructure Research,Vol 13, 223-252.

van Weedenburg, D., Scheider, S., Adams, B., Spierings, B. & van der Zee, E. (2018). Where to go and what to do: Extracting leisure activities from Web data on urban space. under review

Ivory, V. (2017). Rebuilding great neighbourhoods, Build 160, June/July 2017, pp 68-69, BRANZ.

Saville-Smith, K. (2018). Following the money: Understanding the building industry’s exit from affordable housing production. Research Bulletin, 5pgs, Wellington: Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities.

Saville-Smith, K. (2018). Revitalising the production of lower value homes: Researching dynamics and outcomes. 16pgs. Paper presented to European Network of Housing Researchers Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, 27-29 June 2018.

Allen, N. (2018). Concepts of Neighbourhood: A Review of the Literature. Working Paper 18-02 for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: Shaping Places: Future Neighbourhoods (SRA4), 78pgs, Auckland: BBHTC.

Boarin, P., Besen, P., & Haarhoff, E. (2018). Post-Occupancy Evaluation of neighbourhoods: A review of the literature. Working Paper 18-01 for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: Shaping Places: Future Neighbourhoods (SRA4), 75pgs, Auckland: BBHTC.

Chowdhury, S. & Schnabel, M. A. (2018). A communication system in urban design process: An algorithmic neighbourhood design approach. In M. S. Uddin, S-Y. Yoon, L. Kim, C. Welty (Eds.), Virtual + Actual: Process and Product of Design (pp. 271-279). 2018 Design Communication Associations (DCA) Conference, Ithaca, New York.

Chowdhury, S. & Schnabel, M. A. (2018). An Algorithmic Methodology to Predict Urban Form. In T. Fukuda, W. Huang, P. Janssen, K. Crolla, S. Alhadidi (Eds.), Learning, Adapting and Prototyping (pp. 401-410). Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference - Volume 2, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 17-19 May 2018.

Kake, J. & Paul, J. (2018). Evaluating the application of Māori design principles to urban neighbourhood development projects to develop a Kaupapa Māori design framework and assessment tools. Paper prepared for 2018 Urbanism New Zealand Conference, 12pgs, Wellington: BBHTC.

Mohammadzadeh, M. (2018). The Disruptive Mobility and the Future of our Neighbourhoods. Working Paper 18-03 for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: Shaping Places: Future Neighbourhoods (SRA4), 59pgs, Auckland: BBHTC.

Paul, J. (2018). 2018 Youth Assembly at the United Nations. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: Shaping Places: Future Neighbourhoods (SRA4), 16pgs, Wellington: BBHTC.

Paul, J. & Hatton, W. (2018). Te Aranga Māori Design Principles. Article for Landscape Architecture Aotearoa, Auckland: New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects.

Paul, J. & Kake, J. (2018). ICOMOS 2018: Post conference overview. Reflections report for BBHTC on ICOMOS 2018 conference, Culture: Conserving it Together, Suva, Fiji, 1- 5 October 2018.

Schnabel, M. A. & Chowdhury, S. (2018). Virtual Instruments for Urban Design Decision-Making Process. Adv Civil Eng Tech. 2(2). ACET.000534.2018. DOI: 10.31031/ACET.2018.02.000534

Chowdhury, S. & Schnabel, M. A. (2017). Generating urban codes for neighbourhoods. In M. A. Schnabel (ed.), Back to the future: The next 50 years (pp. 139–148), 51st International Conference of the Architectural Science Association. Wellington: Architectural Science Association.

Chowdhury, S., Schnabel, M. A. & Zhang, Y. (2017). An alternative means to generate urban codes: An instrument for urban design. In proceedings: Disruption, divergence and designed intervention – Making change happen, 10th International Urban Design Conference, pgs. 14, Gold Coast: Association for Sustainability in Business.

Haarhoff, E. & Beattie, L. (2017). Can higher density enhance liveability? Build 160, June/July 2017, pp 70-71. Wellington: BRANZ.

Henry, E. (2017). Rangahau Māori (Māori Research): An indigenous perspective. 18pgs. International Social Innovation Research Conference, Swinburne University, Melbourne, December 12-15, 2017.

Menzies, D. (2017). Assessing the Māori cultural landscape. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: Shaping Places: Future Neighbourhoods (SRA4), 5pgs, Wellington: BBHTC.

Paul, J. (2017). Exploring Te Aranga design principles in Tāmaki. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities SRA: Shaping Places: Future Neighbourhoods (SRA4), 10pgs, Wellington: BBHTC.

Paul, J. (2017). Urban Wā Kāinga: Integrating and embedding Te Aranga and Kaupapa Māori into communities. Negotiated study, Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Hons), 111pgs, Auckland: Unitec.

Haarhoff, E. (2016). Shaping places: A role for urban design?. Architecture New Zealand, 2016 (2), 29-31.

Haarhoff, E., Beattie, L., & Dupuis, A. (2016). Does higher density housing enhance liveability? Case studies of housing intensification in Auckland. Cogent Social Sciences, 2(1), 1243289.

Haarhoff, E. & Beattie, L. (2017). Can higher density enhance liveability? Build 160, June/July 2017, pp 70-71. Wellington: BRANZ.

Levy, D., Hills, R., Perkins, H. C., Mackay, M. & Campbell, M. (2018). How can local property entrepreneurs be enabled to contribute to the regeneration of regional settlements? The 24th Pacific Rim Real Estate Society Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 21-24 January 2018. Page 70.

Mackay, M. & Perkins, H. C. (2018). Analysing the architecture of agri-tourism. Working paper presented at CAUTHE 2018, Newcastle Business School, The University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 5-8 February 2018.

Perkins, H. C., Mackay, M., Levy, D., Campbell, M. & Hills, R. (2018). Putting peripheral places on the tourism map: a tale of three New Zealand towns. Working paper presented at CAUTHE 2018, Newcastle Business School, The University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 5-8 February 2018.

Preston, K., Maré, D.C., Grimes, A. & Donovan, S. (2018). Amenities and the attractiveness of New Zealand cities. Motu Working Paper (18-14), Wellington: Motu Economic and Public Policy Research.

Apatov, E. & Grimes, A. (2017). Impacts of higher education institutions on local population and employment growth. International Regional Science Review. First Published March 22, 2017: DOI: 10.1177/0160017617698742.

Cochrane, W., Grimes, A., McCann, P. & Poot, J. (2017). Spatial impacts of endogenously determined infrastructure investment. In: Shibusawa, H., Sakurai, K., Mizunoya, T., Uchida, S. (eds.), Socioeconomic Environmental Policies and Evaluations in Regional Science: Essays in Honor of Yoshiro Higano (pp. 227-247, Chapter 12). Singapore: Springer.

Fleming, D., Grimes, A., Lebreton, L., Maré, D. & Nunns, P. (2017). Valuing sunshine, Motu Working Paper (17-13), June 2017. Wellington: Motu Economic and Public Policy Research.

Grimes, A. (2017). City growth and infrastructure. In: Howden-Chapman P., L Early & J. Ombler (eds.) Cities in New Zealand: Preferences, patterns and possibilities (pp. 29-40). Wellington: Steele Roberts Aotearoa.

Grimes, A., Matlaba, V. & Poot, J. (2017). Spatial impacts of the creation of Brasília: A natural experiment, Environment and Planning A, 49, 4, 784-800.

Mackay, M. & Perkins, H. C. (2017). DIY Dreams and the Potential of Home. Housing, Theory and Society, 1-17. DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2017.1408679.

Mackay, M. & Perkins, H. (2017). Supporting regional settlements, Build 160, June/July 2017, pp 66-67, BRANZ.

Mackay, M. & Perkins, H. C. (2017). The globalising world of DIY house improvement: interpreting a cultural and commercial phenomenon. Housing Studies, 32(6), 758-777.

Meade, R. & Grimes, A. (2017). Welfare costs of coordinated infrastructure investments: The case of competing transport modes. New Zealand Economic Papers, 51, 2, 109-121.

Fabling, R. & Grimes, A. (2016). Picking up speed: Does ultrafast broadband increase firm productivity?, Motu Working Paper (16-22), Wellington: Motu Economic and Public Policy Research.

Davies, K., Wilkinson, S. & McMeel, D. (2017). A review of specialist role definitions in BIM guides and standards. Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon), Vol. 22, pg. 185-203, http://www.itcon.org/2017/10

MacGregor, C. (2017). Preparing for the future, Build 163, December 2017/January 2018, pp 49-50. Wellington: BRANZ

Tookey, J. (2017). Putting knowledge into action, Build 163, December 2017/January 2018, pp 44-46. Wellington: BRANZ.

Wilkinson, S., Tookey, J., Potangaroa, R., MacGregor, C., Milicich, M., Ghodrati, N., Adafin, J., Stocchero, A. & Bayne, K. (2017). Transforming the building industry: State of Nation knowledge report. Working Paper for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities, Strategic Area 6: Transforming the Building Industry, pgs 106. Wellington: BBHTC/Urban Research Network

Dyer, M., Hinze, A. & Dyer, R. (2018). Building Research Capacity in Communities: Community Workshop Feedback Report #1. Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities: Urban narratives (Contestable Research), 41pgs, Waikato: BBHTC.

Moores, J., Batstone, C., Simcock, R. & Ira, S. (2018). Activating water sensitive urban design for healthy resilient communities - Discovery phase: Results and recommendations . Report for Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities: Activating water sensitive urban design for healthy resilient communities (Contestable Research), 103pgs, Wellington: BBHTC.