Resources

On this page you will find resources produced by the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities and other organisations we support, including non-peer reviewed publications such as our books, submissions and blogs. Other useful material to which we have contributed is also listed here.

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Leigh, L.

Penny, G.

(2024). Māori Wellbeing: A Guide for Housing Providers

New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities, University of Otago, Wellington

Māori Wellbeing: A Guide for Housing Providers (the Guide) was created as a learning and development tool primarily for housing providers.
Chen, Z.

O’Sullivan, K.

Dohig, R.

Pierse, N.
Jiang, T. Riva, M. Das, R.
(2025). Understanding Summer Energy Poverty and Its Impact on Public Health.

Climate Risk Management

48, 100698 Research Summary
Howden-Chapman, P.
Gatzweiler, F. Cooper, R. Luginaah, I.
(Eds.), (2023). Cities Under COVID-19: A Systems Perspective.

Springer Nature & Zhejiang University Press.
Howden-Chapman, P.

Pierse, N.

Fraser, B.

(2023). Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Public Health Communication Centre,

Public Health Priority Series 21 February 2023.

Read the full briefing: Housing and urban regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand
Human Rights Commission
(2022). Homelessness and human rights: A review of the emergency housing system in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Human Rights Commission,

Housing Inquiry, December 2022.

Homelessness and human rights: A review of the emergency housing system in Aote…
Howden-Chapman, P.

Bierre, S.
Cunningham, C.
(2021). TE TAPEKE FAIR FUTURES IN AOTEAROA

Royal Society Te Apārangi; ISBN (digital): 978-1-877264-48-1, ISBN (print): 978-1-877264-49-8

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Spotlight-on-housing-Te-Tapeke-digital.pdf
Olin, C.

O’Sullivan, K.

Howden-Chapman, P.

Ombler, J.

Witten, K.

Shearer, I.

Aspinall, C

Fraser, B.
Zhang, W.
(2021). Submission on Government Policy Statement on Housing and Urban Development (GPS-HUD).

New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities, Wellington

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2021.07.30-NZCSC-Submission-on-GPS-HUD-final.pdf
Viggers, H.
Kate Amore
Howden-Chapman, P.

(2021). Housing that lacks basic amenities in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2018 A supplement to the 2018 Census Estimate of Severe Housing Deprivation

He Kāinga Oranga - Housing and Health Research Programme, University of Otago, Wellington

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Housing-that-Lacks-Basic-Amenities-in-Aotearoa-New-Zealand-2018.pdf
World Health Organization (Eds.).
(2018). WHO Housing and health guidelines - Recommendations to promote healthy housing for a sustainable and equitable future.

World Health Organization.

The WHO Housing and health guidelines bring together the most recent evidence to provide practical recommendations to reduce the health burden due to unsafe and substandard housing.

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WHO Housing and health guidelines.pdf

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241550376
Love, K.
(2021). User Perceptions of Bus Stop Bypasses: Intercept Surveys of Pedestrians and Cyclists.

New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities, Wellington.

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Keren Love Bus Stop Bypasses April 2021.pdf

Blaschke, P.
Gyde, E.
Howden-Chapman, P.

Ombler, J.
Pedersen Zari, M. Perry, M.
(2019). Current and future green space supply and demand in central Wellington City, New Zealand.
Blaschke, P.
Shaw, C.
Howden-Chapman, P.

Shearer, I.

(2020). Submission by the NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities on Our City Tomorrow: Wellington’s Draft Spatial Plan.

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PfG-Submission-draft-Wgtn-spatial-plan-final-05.10.20-002.pdf
Blaschke, P.

Witten, K.

Keall, M.

Howden-Chapman, P.

(2020). Submission by the NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities on the RMA Issues and Options Paper, ‘Opportunities for Change’.

Wellington, NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities

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RMA-Issues-an-Options-on-RMA-rev2.pdf
Blaschke, P.
Gyde, E.
Howden-Chapman, P.

Ombler, J.
Pedersen Zari, M. Perry, M.
(2019). Green Space in Wellington’s Central City: current provision, and design for future wellbeing.

Report to Wellington City Council

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Report-Green-Space-in-Wellington’s-Central-City (1).pdf
(2018) Crisis? What Crisis? An Overview of the Fifth National Government’s Housing Policies.

Stardust and Substance: The New Zealand General Election of 2017

Stephen Levine (ed), Wellington, 2018, pp. 281-294
Randal, E.

Keall, M.
Shaw, C. Russell, M.
Woodward, A.

Howden-Chapman, P.

(2017). Why New Zealand transport policy needs to encourage walking and cycling.

In L Early & P Howden-Chapman (Eds.), Cities in New Zealand: Preferences, patterns and possibilities.

(pp.107-114). Wellington, New Zealand: Steele Roberts Aotearoa.
Blaschke, P.
Preval, N.
(2017). Does population density affect access to and satisfaction with urban green and open spaces?

Review for the Resilient Urban Futures programme strand on compact and dispersed development, NZCSC Policy Paper, NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities, Wellington

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Blaschke-Chapman-et-al-30may17-on-Density-and-UGOS-final-delinked.pdf
(Eds.), (2016) The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities 1840-1920.

ISBN : 9780947492434
(2013) Social Housing: Where Have We Come From.

Homes People Can Afford: How To Improve Housing in New Zealand

Sarah Bierre, Philippa Howden-Chapman and Lisa Early, (eds), Wellington, 2013, pp. 21-32
(Eds.),(2005) We Call it Home: A History of State Housing in New Zealand.

ISBN : 9780790009971