Urban development and regeneration can be good, bad or indifferent. Sometimes prioritising cars. Sometimes pedestrians. Sometimes architectural design. Sometimes people. It can be beautiful or ugly. It can be safe or dangerous. It's usually good for short term economic growth, but it's often not good for long term economic development.

Auckland's urban landscape is changing. Councils and other agencies build roads, state highways, railways, busways, ferry terminals, cycleways, and footpaths. Industrial, commercial, residential and horticultural land is developed, redeveloped, rezoned, and redeveloped. Ports land is redeveloped for public access and other purposes. But are these new places and spaces designed for people? Are they people places?

Places4People seeks an urban transformation - a new face for Auckland - where the best mobility solutions, combined with great people places and spaces, generate exemplary urban landscapes, whilst providing for economic vitality.

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