Urban intensification in New Zealand

Abstract

The author is a consultant urban designer/planner/architect and Director of Barry Rae Transurban Ltd, consultants on urban development, based in Auckland, New Zealand. He is a graduate of the Athens Center of Ekistics and a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). The text that follows is a slightly edited and revised version of a paper presented at the WSE Symposion "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century," Berlin, 24-28 October, 2001.