The NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities has won a bid to host the 21st International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH 2025) in November 2025 at Tākina in Wellington. This is the first time the International Society of Urban Health's annual conference has come to our region and it is a major coup for our research centre and a tribute to the hard work and support of our partners Wellington City Council, Business Events Wellington, Tourism New Zealand and the University of Otago.
This week at Te Papa we held the last Knowledge Exchange Workshop for the Public Housing and Urban Regeneration research programme. This five-year research programme was funded by the MBIE Endeavour Fund and will conclude at the end of 2025.
Te Tapeke Fair Futures Exploring Equity and Equality in Aotearoa New Zealand
Venue: Aronui Lecture Theatre, Royal Society Te Apārangi, 11 Turnbull Street, Thorndon, Wellington 6011
Join experts from Royal Society Te Apārangi Te Tapeke Fair Futures panel as they highlight some of the important choices New Zealanders face in determining fair futures in this country. Our renowned panellists will share their unique expertise and inspire new ideas about a fair, just, and equitable future in conversation with journalist and writer Rebecca Macfie.
The new Pukehinau Kai Hub at Te Toi Mahana's Pukehinau housing complex is being studied by researchers interested in any impacts of the project on tenant and community wellbeing.
We held a seminar as an opportunity for policy makers to meet us, hear about our research and discuss how we can work together to facilitate the translation of policy into practice. Watch the video.
We held a seminar with speakers Crystal Olin and Farzad Zamani on Density Done Well in our Capital: The Importance of Design. Wellington faces many urbanisation challenges, how can densification and good design help contribute to the solution? Watch the video
Density Done Well in our Capital: The Importance of Design
We held a seminar with speaker Len Cook on the trends in imprisonment of young Māori men in Aotearoa New Zealand over the past thirty to forty years focusing on analysis of cohorts and age groups.