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1 Straight Thinking Digest: The Flood of Dissent 46
2 A Tsunami of Dissent – Part Two 54
3 Straight Thinking Digest: A Tsunami of Dissent 73
4 End of Year Launch Pad for the New Year 135
5 Getting Local Government back on the Rails 75
6 Time to get our Councils Back 105
7 The Ongoing War on the Home Front 113
8 Straight Thinking Digest: Roger Kerr In Memorium 68
9 Special Digest: Update on Kaipara District Plan 140
10 Grand Plans 103
11 On Oil-spills, Demographics and DURT 109
12 Digging through the DURT 110
13 More Questions and Comments on Urban Plans, both here and there 111
14 Men Plan – the Gods Laugh! 117
15 Housing Shortfall begins to make Waves 123
16 Maori at the Crosswords 193
17 Unleashing New Zealand’s full Potential 102
18 Some Puzzlements 145
19 Special Straight Thinking Digest – Affordable Housing 191
20 Special Straight Thinking Digest – Affordable Housing 1 184
21 “Done Deals” destroying Trust 154
22 Fostering Innovation and Change 150
23 How Accountable is your Council? 137
24 Centre for Straight Thinking Digest 471
25 Let’s Build the Auckland Brand 130
26 Project Costs and Benefits 184
27 The Brake on Budgeted Growth 233
28 The Recipe for Unliveable Cities 194
29 Unproductive Ideas that Restrain our Productivity 168
30 The Public Transport Revolution – Why does it never Arrive? 179
31 Special Digest – Productivity Commission and Affordable Housing 200
32 Special Digest – Retro Visions vs Current Realities 160
33 Mini Digest – Irish and Birthday Thoughts 183
34 Special Digest – Retro Visions vs Current Realities 276
35 Challenging the Conventional Wisdom 168
36 What kind of Cities do we Want? 171
37 Public Policy Intended to “Close the Gap" 200
38 Underpining A Truly Evidenced Based Spatial Plan 174
39 PreSurgery Digest 394
40 Digest - National Policy Statements 460
41 Taking back our Communities! 369
42 Digest - Competitive Cities 473
43 Digest - Auckland Evidence 540
44 Digest - Watching Auckland 459
45 Digest- Making Auckland Work 456
46 If I was going there, I wouldn’t start from here 378
47 The Puhoi to Wellsford Highway 693
48 Digest 27 August 2010 520
49 Local Councils and Restrictive Regulations 438
50 Digest 13 August 2010 510
51 The Impact of the Simplifying and Streamlining Amendments to the RMA. 625
52 New Bridge Spells the End of Visions of City Airport Rail Link 648
53 Digest- Business Friendly 617
54 Digest 16th July 2010 602
55 CRMS SuperCity 529
56 Digest 21 June 2010 578
57 Digest 21 May 2010 784
58 Digest 7 May 2010 651
59 Digest 29th April 2010 680
60 Digest 10 April 2010 693
61 Digest Easter 2010 527
62 Digest 25th March 2010 653
63 CRMS Digest 12th March 2010 697
64 Digest 4th March 2010 610
65 Digest 21st February 2010 565
66 Digest 23rd December 2009 828
67 How to Kill the Goose that Lays the Golden Egg 618
68 Digest 11th December 2009 859
69 Digest 6th December 2009 726
70 The Climate Research Unit (CRU) E-mails 550
71 Digest 20th November 2009 696
72 Digest 13th November 2009 685
73 Digest 6th November 2009 837
74 Digest 1st November 2009 807
75 Digest 23rd October 2009 784
76 Digest 10th October 2009 952
77 Digest 5th October 2009 862
78 Digest 23 Sept 2009 921
79 RMA Digest 4 September 2009 982
80 Digest 25th August 2009 977
81 RMA Digest 12 August 2009 1780
82 What will the Christchurch Mayor and CEO learn about light rail in the US? 1288
83 Digest 17th July 2009 1192
84 Digest 9th July 937
85 The View from the Cordillera – Achieving Excellence in Local Government 622
86 CRMS Digest 17 June 2009 738
87 Nick Smith says RMA shake up needed PART TWO 715
88 Ranking of Councils by R.I. 731
89 Nick Smith says RMA shake up needed 644
90 Great News on Development Contributions 708
91 Centre Digest 5 June 2009 901
92 Special Digest: RMA Amendment Bill Submission 737
93 Auckland Dominates 944
94 Papers for the Seattle Conference 717
95 Updates on ETS, RMA Amendment bills and Auckland Governance 1174
96 Auckland Governance 1082
97 New Zealanders Express their Location Preferences 734
98 Local examples needed for Select Committee 858
99 DIgest12 March 09 1000
100 Resource Management Amendment Bill 1148
101 US grasslands get carbon credits- Why not NZ? 782
102 NBR Column et al 1085
103 Waitangi Day Digest 1074
104 Further Responses to RMA Reforms 894
105 National-led Proposed Reforms of the Resource Management Act 771
106 Timely Reminders 1086
107 A Cure for the Crisis 1126
108 Entertainment – and some best wishes for the New Year 970
109 The Risks of Deferring to Authority 792
110 50 year plans: Visions or Hallucinations? 1120
111 Can we increase the Security of Rural Industry? 786
112 The High Risks of Growing Food 999
113 The Housing Bubble and the Boomer Generation 937
114 How NOT to Increase the Housing Stock 798
115 How Excessive Regulation Constrains Productivity 831
116 The Local Government Act-the Impact of the 2002 Reforms 818
117 The Ministers Responsible for Ending the Depression 768
118 The Centre's Thoughts on Reforming the RMA 876
119 Will the National Party's RMA reforms satisfy business? 904
120 Two Views on the Outcome of the Election 742
121 Who Cares About the Cost of Food? 793
122 The ARC has not Learned a Thing! 791
123 Environmental Defence Society and RMA reform 1336
124 Jim Anderton says Global Warming Sceptics Ill Informed 826
125 Infrastructure Australia, NSW Premier Carr, Sydney house prices 890
126 The RMA – Appointment of Commissioners 878
127 Root Causes of the Financial Crisis by Wendell Cox 1050
128 Viscount Monckton's Open Letter to Senator John McCain 781
129 Renewable Electricity Generation Submission 791
130 Are We Falling out of Love with our Cars? 876
131 A Reminder of the "Benefits" of Amalgamation 1315
132 Does DoC Really Need More Land? 889
133 How to cut the Spending of a Government Department 838
134 Treaty Principles and Sustainability 824
135 Were "Cats in Dairies" Unsustainable too? 800
136 The Opening of the Books 810
137 The New Zealand Case in a Nutshell 887
138 Different Places, Different Cases 818
139 Al Gore's Contribution 1014
140 More on the UK – from a curiously anonymous commentator 958
141 The UK Financial Disaster 825
142 And Another Flutter 797
143 Another Fluttering Butterfly 835
144 The Butterfly Wingbeats which developed into a Hurricane 812
145 The Meltdown – the General Case 791
146 The National Policy Statement on Urban Design 1000
147 Current Proposed National Policy Statements 957
148 They Want to Steal Your Home 964
149 Rail Won't Save America – or New Zealand. 907
150 Emissions Trading Scheme-the basics 999
151 Telecommuting and Mixed Use 918
152 The Section 32 Issue-RMA. 1342
153 Queenstown and Linkage Zoning – a Study in Section 32 918
154 RMA Reforms: – The Environmental Legal Assistance Fund 1052
155 September 5th Digest 857
156 Emissions Tax Scheming Bill and Cows 912
157 RMA and problems with renewables-Wind 857
158 California or Houston- Where to Own a Home? 892
159 The NZ Transport Agency 926
160 RMA Regulatory Review Committee of Parliament 951
161 RMA and Policy Statement on Urban Design 936
162 Special: Two Essays 971
163 How are Drivers Actually Responding to High Gas Prices in the US? 924
164 Good Sense on Air Pollution – Lessons from London and Beijing 1053
165 Who Really Caused all our problems - the planners, the bankers, or both? 1159
166 Who Really Caused all our Housing and Finance Problems? 1021
167 What does the end of cheap oil mean to our urban futures? 1344
168 Wellington Protects its Golden Mile, and Two proposed changes to RMA 1052
169 Bubbles Beget Bubbles 1000
170 We are in for a long recession 1138
171 Are all these trains really necessary? 1069
172 Why Tunnels? 1072
173 This morning the Centre appeared before the Finance and Expenditure Select 1062
174 Digest 2nd May 2008 1015
175 Three activities, and Three Items, in this Monday Digest. 1348
176 Correction and Four Special Items in the Short Digest. 1028
177 Easter Digest 986
178 Mini Digest - Yet another carbon initiative? 1027
179 How to destroy an Urban Economy - lessons for Auckland. 1033
180 Digest Feb 1st, 2008 1243
181 Request for Proposed Reforms to RMA, spatial determinism and housing affordability 1031
182 Urban Fringe Prices in Sydney and Dallas/Fort Worth 3684