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The urban agenda: what will New Zealand's new government bring for towns and cities?

  • Written by Jenny McArthur, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Urban Governance (Infrastructure Governance, Policy and Planning), UCL
Lower Hutt, population 105,000. Debates on urbanisation are usually dominated by Auckland, but most of New Zealand's urban population are in small and medium-size cities.Jam74/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

Almost 90% of New Zealand’s population is urbanised. Getting policy right for towns and cities will be crucial for the new Labour-led coalition...

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