Browsing by Degree Name "Master of Planning"
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An Investigation into how the Built Environment can Increase Happiness
The world is increasingly urban and managing urban areas has become one of the most important challenges of the twenty-first century (United Nations, 2014). For urban dwellers, cities do design their lives; the city can ... -
Are outdoor spaces important? An investigation into the provision of outdoor space for medium density housing developments
The provision of a large backyard, the ‘quarter acre dream’, has historically been a key feature of housing development throughout New Zealand. However, in Auckland, due to a rapidly increasing population, rising housing ... -
Are we learning from past practice: The potential for follow-up as an environmental management tool in New Zealand
All development has the potential to cause adverse effects to the environment. Worldwide, environmental concern regarding these effects has significantly increased over the past forty years. This has led to the implementation ... -
Arts and Crafts Architecture: Local Visionaries & Modern Interpretations
Heritage buildings are important assets to cities. More than just their physical presence they embody values of the society, economy and the time which they are from. The Arts and Crafts movement was an international ... -
Brownfield and Greenfield land in Dunedin: From Inner City Industry to Life on the Plain
This research investigates the current status of ‘brownfield’ and ‘greenfield’ land in Dunedin City, namely where such land is located; the nature of land uses; and indicative patterns of historical and present development ... -
The Challenges of Coastal Setbacks in New Zealand
Coastal setbacks are a popular land use and hazard planning tool to avoid development in areas susceptible to coastal hazard risk. Controversy and debate however surround coastal setbacks, from determining the line, through ... -
Clean Green New Zealand? Transit-Oriented Development as an Urban Development Strategy in Aotearoa?
The past fifty years has seen urban design and planning largely prioritise private vehicle use, resulting in among other things, an increase in vehicle ownership worldwide. This trend has resulted in the underutilisation ... -
Community Participation Limitations in Tourism Planning in Papua New Guinea
This study examines issues relating to community participation limitations in tourism planning. It focuses on the communities associated with the Boluminski Cycling and Tigak Sea Kayaking Product Plans in New Ireland ... -
Community planning in North East Valley
Community planning is when a community makes decisions about issues that matter to them. There are diverse views on the role, function and process of community planning, depending on who is driving it. From the formal ... -
Community-Based Groundwater Management in Andhra Pradesh, India
Increasing concern surrounds groundwater management throughout South Asia. The Green Revolution that emanated from the 1960s intensified agricultural practices in India has led to the overexploitation of groundwater in ... -
Conservation Planning for the North Island Brown Kiwi (Apteryx mantelli): An investigation into the role of district plans to facilitate landscape scale conservation of the North Island brown kiwi in Northland, New Zealand
Impacts resulting from human activity have lead to a dramatic decline of all species of kiwi (Apteryx spp.). Today, approximately 8,000 North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) remain in Northland. Many of these kiwi are ... -
Counter-urbanisation and the Rural Idyll
Rural areas are no longer seen primarily as places of production. Instead they are increasingly valued as places to live, work and recreate. However, these values are perceived as being under threat from the increased ... -
Cultural Values of Landscape
Landscape is a complex term. Planning acknowledges the importance of landscape, but how landscape is understood and what best practices are for assessing landscape is unclear, especially with regard to the more intangible ... -
Cumulative Effects and New Zealand’s Resource Management Act: An Institutional Analysis
Cumulative effects (CE) on the environment are among the most difficult effects to manage in an anticipatory manner, because of the small size of individual effects, the diverse, and dispersed character of sources, and the ... -
Cycling Towards Europe : Opportunities for assisting cycling in Dunedin through a developed planning framework
The current dominance of the private car in New Zealand is contributing to a compromised efficiency, connectedness and environment within New Zealand cities. Recognition that future challenges will restrict the availability ... -
Decision-making for Living in Flood-prone Areas
On the 26th April 2006, a small community was flooded by the overflow of water from the Silver Stream on the Taieri flood-plain, Otago, New Zealand. The flood event has raised questions as to why people live in these ... -
Disability Strategies - Do they work?: An analysis of Dunedin City Council and New Plymouth District Council’s Disability Strategies
Seventeen percent of the New Zealand population has a disability, many of whom are reliant upon local authorities to support their lives, remove physical or social barriers, and create inclusiveness. Several policies and ... -
Dunedin’s Post Industrial Response
This study is grounded in the context of how Western cities have transitioned from the industrial era to the post-industrial era, and will specifically investigate how Dunedin in New Zealand has responded to these ... -
E kore e mimiti te puna, ka koropupū, ka koropupū: An investigation into Māori participation in freshwater management in Taranaki
To many Māori communities throughout New Zealand, freshwater rivers and streams are highly revered and respected. However, in recent times, Māori are increasingly concerned that land-use practices such as dairy farming are ... -
Ecosystem Services Based Management: Evaluation of an approach to coastal management planning and decision making in New Zealand
The ecosystem services based approach to management offers the potential to improve resource management planning and decision-making under the Resource Management Act 1991 by providing a way to draw together the often ...