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Peri-Urban Potential
How can landscapes for both people and production prosper within peri-urban Aotearoa through innovative spatial design, reconnecting New Zealanders with whenua and food?
David Wall
Project Details Ngā taipitopito
Project Status:
CompletedChallenge funding:
$130,000Research duration:
July 2022 – June 2023Collaborators Ngā haumi
BECA | Lincoln University
What are we doing?E aha ana mātou?
The productive land surrounding New Zealand cities is increasingly under threat from urban expansion. These peri-urban zones are vitally important to New Zealand’s settlements, communities, ecology, and economies.
The national housing crisis has created a conflict between protecting this land for food production, and removing restrictive barriers to urban growth. This project will investigate innovative land-use possibilities that benefit both people and production within the contentious peri-urban zone.
The research team will adopt bicultural design principles to develop Aotearoa-specific spatial land use typologies for the peri-urban zone that prioritise māra kai and mahinga kai, with the aim of re-connecting whānau, whenua and food.
How can the research be used? Ka pēhea e whai take ai te rangahau?
- This project will develop a set of spatial land-use alternatives specific for the peri-urban zone in Aotearoa New Zealand, based on international and local case studies, and prioritising the landscape principles of māra kai, mahinga kai and maramataka,.
- Embedding mana whenua values into spatial land-use design along the rural to urban continuum will offer new opportunities to both nourish the land and the communities that reside within it. Within the peri-urban zone, this research explores the interconnection between land and life, between production and people, between rural and urban.
- This project will produce a report and a peer-reviewed journal article that promotes healthy outcomes for whenua and whānau in a holistic and integrated way. The findings will be of interest to mana whenua, growers, residents, planners and designers, and territorial authorities, to inform how they approach the unique challenges and opportunities of peri-urban zones in Aotearoa.
Related research updates Ngā pānui mō te rangahau nei
Research team Te hunga i whai wāhi mai
Project Lead/Science Lead
Shannon Davis
Lincoln University
Richard Morris
Lincoln University
Hanley Chen
Lincoln University
Naomi Darvill
Lincoln University
Pablo Gregorini
Lincoln University
Tools & resources Ngā utauta me ngā rauemi
Video
Peri-Urban Potential webinar
Rethinking the land around cities can tackle both our food and housing crises. This webinar will share research showing that we could improve our food,…
Presentation
Peri-urban landscapes: Rethinking the land around cities for housing + food production
Slides from a webinar describing research on rethinking the land around cities for housing and food production.
Journal Article
Housing and Food Production: Resident and Grower Perceptions of Peri-Urban Food-Production Landscapes
The loss of productive soils and food-producing landscapes on the edges of cities is an increasing issue facing Aotearoa New Zealand. Like many countries globally,…
Summary
Growing NZ cities eat up fertile land – but housing and food production can co-exist
Cities around the world face a similar dilemma: population growth and housing shortages mean urban expansion often encroaches on rural productive land. Fertile soil is one of the reasons why…
Summary
Rethinking the Whenua Around our Cities Could Help Turn the Table on our Food Crisis
By making the fertile land surrounding our cities more sustainably productive, we can improve our food, housing and wellbeing all at the same time. As…
In the media Mai i te ao pāpaho
Lincoln University
12 July 2022
RNZ Nine to Noon, 28 September 2023
The Conversation, 13 November 2023
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