Community Engagement

Golden Foot Walking Awards - nominations open now

The Golden Foot Walking Awards celebrate and recognise New Zealand achievements for walkers by acknowledging innovative new facilities, highlighting national best practice and rewarding ongoing commitment to walking and pedestrians. 

The awards are open to all - private companies and public organisations, not-for-profit groups, community organisations and individuals. We encourage you to submit a nomination. 

Nominations are open until 17 June 2024

Get your nomination in for the 2024 Golden Foot Walking Awards

Region (NZ): 
National level
Topics: 
Community Engagement
Free tags: 
Golden Foot Awards

Wellington Jane's Walk

We invite you to join us for the fourth Wellington Jane's Walk on Saturday 4 May, 2pm starting from the bottom of the Dixon St steps. Please RSVP wellington[a]livingstreets.org.nz if you would like to come along.

Join us for the fourth Wellington Jane's Walk, a citizen led conversation looking at the issues and developments along familiar streets in the central city, Saturday 4 May, 2pm

Town/City: 
Wellington
Contact details: 
wellington[a]livingstreets.org.nz
Meeting type: 
Face to face
Region (NZ): 
Wellington region
City/Town: 
Wellington
Topics: 
Community Engagement
Free tags: 
Jane's walk
civic walks
walks in wellington city

It's submission time for local government long term plans

Submitted by comms on Fri, 03/05/2024 - 08:28

It’s time to write submissions for our local government long term plans  to get the changes we deserve for the places where we live. 

All the good things we want need to be in these 10-year budgets, either as stand-alone items for big projects or in a funding bucket that will cover the smaller projects. 

Pedestrian projects are often high-value yet low-cost items that get rolled together in transport projects with anodyne names like ‘renewals’, ‘upgrades’, ‘improvements’, ‘operations’ and ‘maintenance’.

Topics: 
Community Engagement
Institution: 
Local government

In the local body elections, it’s time to Vote Climate – and vote for better walking

Submitted by timjones on Mon, 18/07/2022 - 10:06

Living Streets Aotearoa has joined the Vote Climate campaign because the importance of walking as climate action is a key part of our kaupapa.

Region (NZ): 
National level
Topics: 
Community Engagement
Institution: 
Local government
Free tags: 
local body elections
enrolment
voting
Vote Climate campaign

Golden Foot Walking Awards 2022

Nominations are now OPEN for our 8th Golden Foot Walking Awards.

Love that special place that makes you grateful to be on foot. Think your wheelchair has never rolled so well. Amazed that a place could be so good to be in. Or that special person who inspires you to stride out. Nominate them for a Golden Foot Walking Award.

Contact person: 
Ellen Blake
Region (NZ): 
National level
Topics: 
Community Engagement
Design and planning
Free tags: 
walk
best practice
Golden Foot Awards

Wellington Park(ing) Day 5 March - Take a walk on the green side

Join us on lower Cuba Street, Wellington and take a walk on the green side! Living Streets will be celebrating all the walking stars out there by repurposing car park space and letting you take your seat on the throne of walking goodness! Sounds like fun right

 

We are shamelessly taking ideas from many places, not least our President Andy Smith and his Auckland red carpet activities, and Australia's David Engwicht with traffic taming installations. But with a Wellington twist we hope you will enjoy

See you there from 8am - 5pm Friday 5 March.

Town/City: 
Wellington
Venue: 
Cuba Street
Contact person: 
Ellen Blake
Contact details: 
wellington[at]livingstreets.org.nz
Meeting type: 
Face to face
Organizer: 
ellen.blake
Region (NZ): 
Wellington region
City/Town: 
Wellington
Topics: 
Community Engagement
Free tags: 
street activity

Building better communities in New Zealand

Thought-leaders to share plans to improve the walking experience at second New Zealand Walking Summit

For the first time, Auckland will host the Walking Summit from 20 - 21 June - New Zealand's leading event for promoting walking-friendly communities.

Offering unique opportunities to hear from local and international experts on transport, accessibility and walkable communities, key topics this year include:

Region (NZ): 
National level
Topics: 
Community Engagement
Institution: 
Living Streets Aotearoa

Daniel Sauter talk in Wellington November 2014 "The flaneur and the sojourner - their place in a liveable city"

Submitted by ellen.blake on Sun, 09/11/2014 - 13:44

A highlight of the Wellington 2014 walking year was this talk from international walk researcher Daniel Sauter.  Daniel spoke about the important 4 "I's" of walking - Inspiration, Identity, Infrastructure and Institutional arrangements. He noted the joy of walking and 'being' in a place, were as important in a liveable city as moving through spaces, and had some interesting research to show how we spend our time. He commented that he particularly enjoyed the debate during his presentation - thanks to those attending.

Document Type: 
Presentations
Topics: 
Design and planning
Safety
Walking strategies
Transport
Policy
Case Studies
Recreation
Community Engagement
Walkability
Environment
Institution: 
International NGO or non-profit / community group

About Us

Living Streets Aotearoa is the New Zealand organisation for people on foot, promoting walking-friendly communities. We are a nationwide organisation with local branches and affiliates throughout New Zealand.

We want more people walking and enjoying public spaces be they young or old, fast or slow, whether walking, sitting, commuting, shopping, between appointments, or out on the streets for exercise, for leisure or for pleasure.

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