Too many cooks spoiling Auckland’s broth

Too many cooks spoiling Auckland’s broth
Auckland: too big to fail (Image: Getty)
Pattrick Smellie
Auckland needs its own dedicated research and policy agency if it is ever to realise the potential being lost by the current dominance of central government decisions on the future of the country’s largest city, says a new study.Commissioned by Auckland Council and its development agency, Auckland Unlimited, the 95-page report from Auckland university’s Koi Tu: Centre for Informed Futures also pushes the city to consider new, more grass-roots forms of participatory democracy to improve buy-in and the quality of local decision-making...

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