We talk to Shamubeel Eaqub about City Centre Economics and Democracy
(0:00) Introduction
(0:30) What's Unique about Auckland City Centre
(2:12) How the City Centre Brings People Together
(3:08) How the City Centre Compares Internationally
(4:08) How Agglomeration Helps
(7:33) What Auckland Needs to Do to Keep Talent
(9:16) How the City Centre Adapts to a Changing Society
(12:19) The Priorities for Businesses and Residents in the City Centre
(12:19) How Productivity is Misunderstood
(14:24) How Productivity Depends on Geography Culture and Institutions
(16:59) How Leaders Help More than Managers
(19:43) How Politics is Getting in the Way
(22:02) Who We Trust Right Now
(23:09) The Role of Trust in Local Democracy
(25:15) How We Find Common Ground
(29:40) How Political Interference Disrupts Society
(33:45) How Independent Public Service Helps Society
(35:58) How Aucklanders Have More Values in Common
(41:06) How Local Government is Constrained by Rates
(48:00) What We Need in the City Centre
(50:20) What Voluntary City Centre Targeted Rates Reveals about Democracy
(52:30) Farewell
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We talk to George Weeks about masterplanning a dynamic city
We talk to George Weeks, lead author of the 2020 Auckland City Centre Masterplan (CCMP).
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Leonie Freeman discusses property's role in the city centre economy
Leonie Freeman discusses property's role in the city centre economy by A City of Neighbourhoods
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We talk to Simon Bridges about Business and Auckland
We talk to Simon Bridges about Business and Auckland by A City of Neighbourhoods
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We talk with Adrienne Young-Cooper about opportunities for the City Centre
In this episode, we speak to Adrienne Young-Cooper. Adrienne is a currently a full-time, non-executive company director and trustee on a number of entities and organisations. This follows a leading public-sector career and running a medium-sized consultancy. She has specialised in transport (land, aviation and maritime) sectors, social housing and urban and property development and investment.
In this episode, Adrienne shares her belief that Auckland's city centre would benefit from two things: increasing its residential population and turning it into the economic heart of the country by making it the primary location for our biggest companies.
As someone who spends time outside the city for work, she also acknowledges that the rest of New Zealand see that if Auckland does well, then the whole country benefits.
(0:00) Introduction
(1:16) Our issues are the same and they are very different
(3:51) What we can do to increase City Centre residents
(8:26) Why resistance to change is the same everywhere
(12:41) What solutions were there for homelessness in the City Centre
(15:36) How there is scope for more solutions to homelessness
(16:39) The solutions go beyond housing
(18:03) Where specialist governance can be successful
(23:25) How other parts of the country see Auckland
(26:49) Auckland's conditions demand different aproaches
(27:56) The economic priority for Auckland City Centre
(30:57) Farewell
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