Renew Our City (ROC)™

Public Talks, click links below to view presentations

May 2012 :  Friends of the Art Gallery & WEA Talk

September 10, 2011 : SCAPE Panel Discussion, The City as Memory

August 24, 2011 : River of Life, Otakaro Avon River Potential

July 1-3rd, 2011 : 48 Hour Challenge, Team NZ Wood

June 30, 2011: Vibrant Stayers, Bird's Eye View Forum 

June 21, 2011: Let's ROC (Renew Our City), NZILA Workshop

June 16, 2011 : Respectful, Green & Funky Central City, ICON Community Meeting

June 12, 2011 : Change in Eastern Landscapes, Green Party's Public Forum 

May 25, 2011 :  Re-gardening Our City-Renewing the World Model, Diana Madgins' Garden City Forum 

April 20, 2011 : Land the Primary Determinant, Green Party's Public Forum

Renewed & resilient garden city responding to natural & cultural land patterning:

• Natural corridors forming substantial greenways along at risk waterway lands, providing pedestrian & cycle movement, recreation, ecosystem services and natural processes.
• River parkland corridor connecting Hagley Park to the coast.
• ‘Daylight’ and naturalise some former tributaries and wetlands.
• Avoiding structures encroaching on waterway systems. Minimising vehicle encroachment along waterways.
• Keeping the heritage grid, its north-south view-shafts to the Port Hills & mountains; but baffle the easterly in the east-west ones - greened corridors.
• Building mixed-use, low-rise (tree height) buildings with well-vegetated sites and surfaces, incl green roofs, and minimising piped runoff through site management.
• Buildings have friendly and elegant facades and uses adjoining public spaces.
• Reduced CBD, responding to natural & cultural cues, green-belted and separated from legible villages beyond.