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  • Everyone should care about urbanism, and here’s why

    New Zealand cities have so many good things going for them, but they’re let down by inadequate housing and transport. Mouldy old homes rent for exorbitant sums. Traffic-clogged roads are unpleasant (or even unsafe) for anyone not in a car. It doesn’t have to be this way. Read more

  • Urbanism for Women: what is, and what could be (Book Review: Feminist City)

    Daphne Lawless reviews Feminist City: A Field Guide by Leslie Kern. Read more

  • Jacinda Ardern’s housing policy: Appear to be doing something, but don’t scare investors

    In its fourth year of government, Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Ardern government continues in its failure to substantively deliver on its housing promises. Read more

  • Book review: Europe’s New Strongman

    Book title: Orbán: Europe’s New StrongmanAuthor: Paul LendvaiReleased: 2019Review by: Byron Clark While there has hardly been a shortage of strongman leaders for the right to admire in recent years, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has stood out. Last year Vox referred to him as “The American right’s favourite strongman”1 and British far-right figurehead Tommy Read more

  • Book review: Culture Warlords

    Book title: Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White SupremacyAuthor: Talia LavinReleased: 2020Review by: Will Howard Culture Warlords functions as a look at some hard truths of the world. It’s not very fun to be immersed in white supremacy, so I shy away from it. I let them have their corners, and Read more

  • Book review: Troll Hunting – “she deserved it”

    Book title: Troll Hunting: Inside the world of online hate and its human falloutAuthor: Ginger GormanReleased: 2019Review by: Karen Effie I like Ginger Gorman a lot. She would make a good, thoughtful friend. She’s open about her life and the difficulties she had with the book: the shaky boundaries between her and the trolls she Read more