Saturday, September 20, 2025

New Green Cities in Countryside for New Zealand

A possible alternative to more urban high rise apartments I have not heard floated in New Zealand is completely new human-scaled cities in the country between existing cities.

Cities designed from scratch to be completely green.

Roads wide enough for bike, bus and scooter lanes.

15 minute city neighborhoods: work, play, essential shops, rest, heath care, social-communing space, nature, participatory politics within walking distance or short commute.

Self-sufficient in energy with renewables including gas from sewerage.

A genuinely diverse economy geared at least as much to self-reliance as external trade (reducing, at least to an extent, the usual need to be located near a port).

High rise minimal and scattered evenly to increase local community self-reliance rather than centralization.

Sections with large gardens or nearby community gardens should be easy to to get.

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