Matthew Paetz

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Matthew Paetz is Professional Teaching Fellow in Urban Planning at the University of Auckland. In 2013, his work on medium-density housing policy in Adelaide received multiple awards from the Planning Institute of Australia. More recently, he led the development of the Queenstown District Plan and was an urban policy advisor at the Ministry for the Environment.

Taking notes from Japan

People | The New Zealand government’s Minister of Housing, Chris Bishop, has very publicly professed admiration for the Japanese urban planning system. Matthew Paetz looks at what might be lost in translation.

Six storey love song

Practice | Matthew Paetz grapples with new density controls in the National Policy Statement on Urban Development 2020, perhaps the most significant government policy for cities in Aotearoa New Zealand of the past 30 years.