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1 The Disappearance of the Next Middle Class 12
2 When Politicians have Visions the People get Nightmares 105
3 What is a Spatial Plan? – And Whose is it? 141
4 Long Live the Recession 175
5 The Economic Meaning of Village Markets 181
6 The Good News and the Bad News 106
7 Why do We Love Things that Just Don't Work? 259
8 Falling off the edge of the Pacific Rim? Thoughts on Wicked Problems. 262
9 No other Gods before Them 355
10 It’s a Small World – or it Should Be 219
11 The Invasion of the Money Snatchers 227
12 Taxing Property to Death 245
13 Pushing out the Boundaries – and stretching out the facts 267
14 Spontaneous Order – a Solution to Traffic Congestion 301
15 Closing the Gap – why we seem destined to fail 372
16 The Report of the 2025 Housing Task Force 457
17 When do fines become taxes? 287
18 Climate Change Reporting 277
19 Putting the Brakes on Growth 321
20 Freedom to Build 370
21 It’s About Productivity – Stupid! 420
22 It’s All About Control - Stupid 384
23 Digging Deep to find our Blind Spots 349
24 Greenhouse Gas Emmissions 395
25 Improving Auckland’s Ranking 811
26 Let’s have some Smart Thinking in our Cities! 999
27 Stop Funding the Sustainababblers 407
28 Getting down to the coal face 388
29 Why do Social Engineers Hate the Motorcar? 473
30 The P.M. has a Chief Science Advisor – but what should he do? 509
31 US Farmers sell their carbon credits – how come? 551
32 They’re still not sleeping in Seattle! 434
33 The Governance of a Multi-Nodal City 796
34 GETTING NZ BACK IN THE FAST LANE – FIVE 470
35 On Getting into the Fast Lane (Part Four) and Creating Jobs 500
36 On Getting into the Fast Lane (Part Three) – and getting rid of humbug 617
37 Getting into the Fast Lane (Part Two) 595
38 Getting into the Fast Lane Part One 498
39 The High Costs of Central Planning (Part 2) 558
40 The High Costs of Central Planning 639
41 Where we do we go from here? 615
42 Council Revenues Are Drying Up 616
43 Why R and D Tax Credits are not a Good Idea 571
44 Can a New Government Actually Change Anything? 614
45 The War on Dairy Has Begun 786
46 Evidence of Entrenched PC Ideas in Policy Statements 638
47 Oil Bubbles and Speculation Part 2 657
48 Oil Bubbles and Speculation 679
49 Dealing with Depression. 820
50 Cities face a choice – and they need to get it right! 712
51 Why Councilors should seek independent advice 853
52 Two Bubbles Bursting. 843
53 Houston – the well-planned City without a Plan 821
54 The Star City of the Lone Star State. 1122
55 Affordable Housing – how to get it 850
56 The Commissioners’ Dillemma 797
57 Council action could save many companies, and the life savings of many New Zealanders. 1104
58 Auckland’s Looney Tunes 950
59 When will we ever Learn? 793
60 Why Mobile Phones and Broadband are so good for Urban Transport. 804
61 What would life be like without the RMA? 938
62 One Week in Bali 1004
63 More myths bite the dust. 756
64 More myths bite the dust. Part A 780
65 Councillors or Commissioners? That is the question. 792
66 The Other “Clash of Civilisations”. 797
67 Fourteen Tips for New Mayors 840
68 “We looked up to the Environment and when we looked down the land was gone!” 838
69 Who knows how to make a Carbon-Neutral Pencil? 973
70 We can get by with some help from our Friends – a review essay. 790
71 Great News for Couch Potatoes! 759
72 Irresistible forces meet an Immovable Object? 751
73 Super City – or Mega Flop? 968
74 Some random thoughts on Sales, Marketing and Fair Trading. 756
75 Our Two “Established” Religions. 712
76 Does Auckland have a Death Wish? 769
77 Why Rush to Kyoto Judgment? 727
78 Why are Australians Richer than Us? 753
79 You must go down to the coast today 768
80 The Selfish Generation gets Greedier by the Day 863
81 Select Committee to Consider Housing Affordability 811
 


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