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The Good Citizen

by The Spinoff

The Good Citizen is a complementary podcast to the live talk series of the same name that takes place monthly in the Britomart neighbourhood in downtown Auckland, New Zealand. It features host Jeremy Hansen interviewing a wide range of guests, with a common focus on how to create successful urban communities with good architecture, urban design and smart thinking.

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Episodes

  1. Richard Goldie

    It’s a place ready to bestow its golden glow on people who attend sports games or concerts or any of the other events that might be held under its ethereal-looking roof. The softly lit renderings carry an implicit promise of an exciting future beyond the Ports of Auckland’s big red fence: a place...

  2. The Good Citizen – Anahera Rawiri

    New Zealand’s housing crisis is a systemic failure on so many fronts: a rapidly growing population, insane house prices, a drastic shortage of quality homes, a volatile renting market, tight lending restrictions, no capital gains tax and so much more. All of it is interdependent and complicated,...

  3. The Good Citizen – Jacqueline Paul

    Landscape architect, housing advocate and aspiring local body politician, Jacqueline Paul (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga), isn’t sitting around waiting to be heard. She’s speaking up, and speaking loudly. She doesn’t want to hear about hope. In fact, she’s over it – so...

  4. The Good Citizen – Ben Van Bruggen

    WH Auden once said “we would rather be ruined than changed”. It’s a quote urban designer Ben van Bruggen refers to when I ask him about how we might change the minds of Auckland’s legions of NIMBYs, opposed as they are to increased density, e-scooters, cycle lanes, and anything else that…

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  5. The Good Citizen – Fonteyn Moses-te Kani

    From a mostly-Māori rural community to the centre of one of the country’s biggest banks: in the latest episode of The Good Citizen, Fonteyn Moses-Te Kani tells Jeremy Hansen how we can do diversity better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  6. The Good Citizen - Henry Crothers

    “We need to stop chickening out.” Landscape Architect and Urban Designer Henry Crothers is playing a guiding role in the creation of many of the best bits of a whole lot of New Zealand towns and cities, but he thinks it’s time for more bravery when it comes to the reinvention of the places we...

  7. The Good Citizen – Jade Kake

    In the first episode of The Good Citizen Jeremy Hansen talks to Jade Kake about how the work of the Māori design movement can make life in Aotearoa better for all its citizens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The Good Citizen is a complementary podcast to the live talk series of the same name that takes place monthly in the Britomart neighbourhood in downtown Auckland, New Zealand. It features host Jeremy Hansen interviewing a wide range of guests, with a common focus on how to create successful urban communities with good architecture, urban design and smart thinking.

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The Good Citizen is a complementary podcast to the live talk series of the same name that takes place monthly in the Britomart neighbourhood in downtown Auckland, New Zealand. It features host Jeremy Hansen interviewing a wide range of guests, with a common focus on how to create successful urban...

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