Spending my Saturday afternoon at the Uptown Futures Festival. Featuring some great work from architecture students showing their vision for the area. Featuring a mix of mixed use, co housing, urban farms and green spaces.

Natalie Allen from The Urban Advisory talking about the students work.

Great panel discussion from @bernardchickey @pv_reynolds Chlöe Swarbrick Anahera Rawiri and Sibyl Bloomfield from AUT.

Interview on RNZ this morning with Greater Auckland and Greer O’Donnell from The Urban Advisory about the Carrington Rd development. rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

This is the first development in mixed use zone in Warkworth! (as far as I know). I enjoyed providing urban design input to support this successful application, which will positively contribute to the growth of the town centre. The Urban Advisory

EXCITING NEWS! 📣In between juggling a growing business and growing families, Natalie, Greer and the TUA team, have been hard at mahi to launch something pretty special, New Zealand’s Housing Survey! Help us spread the word, take and share the survey now! nzhousingsurvey.co.nz

Localism done well #Communitywealthbuilding white paper launch webinar as we speak with Local Government NZ, The Urban Advisory, Democracy Collaborative and Ngāti Toa Rangatira. weall.org.nz/news/community…

"We think this white paper is a fantastic and practical resource that provides insights into #communitywealthbuilding as an appraoch to deliver outcomes for community wellbeing across Aotearoa." Grace Hall, Director Policy and Advocacy Local Government NZ

"Increasingly we're thinking about localism as an approach that councils can use to devolve power and resources to communities to drive actions. They know the outcomes their communities and places need." Grace Hall, Director Policy and Advocacy Local Government NZ #communitywealthbuilding

"#CommunityWealthBuilding is an approach to economic development that has the potential to help New Zealand build more prosperous, equitable, sustainable and resilient local communities." - Gareth Hughes, Director WEAll Aotearoa

"We use the knowledge from successful community wealth building cases from across the world and show how this can be implemented in a New Zealand context" - Gareth Hughes, Director, WEAll Aotearoa.

"#communitywealthbuilding ensures wealth generated in the local economy is held and invested back into that local economy, and puts control and benefits into the hands of local people" - Greer O’Donnell, Managing Director at The Urban Advisory

"#Communitywealthbuilding a growing movement. Fundamental principles are Place-based, Self-determination, Partnership & Collaborations, Regenerative Systems. It's about creating a power shift to bring communities to the decision making table." Greer O’Donnell, The Urban Advisory

"#Communitywealthbuilding pillars are harnessing spending and local supply chains, prioritising fair employment, investing locally, diversifying ownership models, and making land and assets work for locals and the environment" - Greer O’Donnell, The Urban Advisory

"#Communitywealthbuilding is about economic system change, the current economy is not working for all people and planet. The economy is a social construct and we can construct it anyway we want." - Neil McInroy Democracy Collaborative

"Impacts we've seen in areas adopting #communitywealthbuilding in Scotland; up to 5% growth in new cooperatives, greater productivity in employee owned firms, improved mental health, growth in urban food growing, more spending with local firms." Neil McInroy Democracy Collaborative