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LIUDD and the community; Talbot Park

Can intensive urban development be green? And how have local residents found living in an intensification suburb which has taken a low impact urban design approach? These were two questions that Lan Continue Reading...

 
Contributed by
Kathryn Scott
Landcare Research
December 13, 2010

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What on Earth is LIUDD?

Can we design cities to cleanse urban waterways and increase NZ's biodiversity? Low Impact Urban Design and Development (LIUDD) is an approach which works with nature, using design features such as Continue Reading...

 
Contributed by
Claire Mortimer
Landcare Research
November 12, 2010

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Raintanks for Stormwater Management

How do you control flooding through nature and the home rain tank? Glencourt Place is a suburban neighbourhood in the North Shore, Auckland.  The area lacked any official stormwater reticulatio Continue Reading...

 
Contributed by
Claire Mortimer
Landcare Research
November 12, 2010
 
 
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