Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: Built heritage, special places and community cultures: it's up to you https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349749#post349749 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349749#post349749 Bring back the community hui’s with a pile of kids in the corner I say!

Well yes we all need to be involved to build a sense of community, kids especially, seeing their elders working together and the results can only be a good thing.
this segmented society with disconnected…

]]> Thu, 08 Oct 2015 21:27:37 +1300 Tina Plunkett https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349714#post349714 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349714#post349714 It's a good discussion in itself . Have 'they' created a society/population in NZ that we are so busy fending for ourselves just to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table that we no longer can afford the time to get involved?

I'm (ironically) lucky that…

]]> Wed, 07 Oct 2015 22:15:00 +1300 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349710#post349710 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349710#post349710 . My perception is these are the people are time and asst rich (can afford to use spare time

Luxury I'm sure thanks Tina. I'm time and asset poor so am subject to the whims of others. Not an enviable place to be.

]]> Wed, 07 Oct 2015 19:42:50 +1300 Tina Plunkett https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349686#post349686 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349686#post349686 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 13:43:26 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349680#post349680 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349680#post349680 High housing prices have already pushed some of the community away, if people can easily make it to K Rd from areas with lower housing prices this will help keep K Road as a place for this community to congregate.

The CRL is certainly going to enable that.

]]> Wed, 07 Oct 2015 13:36:10 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349679#post349679 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349679#post349679 Yes! Tito has been another great example of new additions to K rd, and also 'Uncle Mans' if you are in for left great Malaysian street food.

They make an unabashedly pungent nasi lemak, I'll tell you that.

]]> Wed, 07 Oct 2015 13:35:02 +1300 Luke Christensen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349678#post349678 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349678#post349678 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 13:25:01 +1300 Tina Plunkett https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349677#post349677 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349677#post349677 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 13:23:48 +1300 Tina Plunkett https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349676#post349676 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349676#post349676 Yes! Tito has been another great example of new additions to K rd, and also 'Uncle Mans' if you are in for left great Malaysian street food.
When I stop and think of these places opening up I am heartened to know K rd keeps up the fight against becoming…

]]> Wed, 07 Oct 2015 13:18:44 +1300 Tina Plunkett https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349673#post349673 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349673#post349673 More often than not Not paid. My perception is these are the people are time and asst rich (can afford to use spare time not working or on family), and are not always off the immediate community, 'from auckland' seems to suffice.

I absolutely agree with that end and side…

]]> Wed, 07 Oct 2015 13:09:32 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349624#post349624 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349624#post349624 Example of a development has has complemented K Road: Ironbank.

It has a dark, but public, courtyard a ground level, with a hireable event space opening onto it.

But more so, upstairs it has BizDojo, where a bunch of small ventures pay for shared office space. So you get all…

]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2015 19:32:20 +1300 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349622#post349622 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349622#post349622 They are sitting around tables making the decisions
I assume they are getting paid to exercise their brain muscle.
Baby boomers or not some people will take the path of least resistance
which explains some of the fucked up decisions made.
like pulling down those wonderful shops that had flats…

]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2015 19:20:03 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349615#post349615 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349615#post349615 Why can't both work? I love both renovation man and grand designs. You don't have space for a grand design without removing something old but you also lose something if you destroy all the old. I personally want both kinds of space to work. But that doesn't seem to be… ]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:25:51 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349613#post349613 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349613#post349613 It's pretty clear which one works.

Why can't both work? I love both renovation man and grand designs. You don't have space for a grand design without removing something old but you also lose something if you destroy all the old. I personally want both kinds of space to work.…

]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:20:12 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349611#post349611 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349611#post349611 I worry about K Road. It's the only place in the Auckland CBD I'd feel good about recommending to, say, a visiting band. But its culture is tied up with older, undeveloped retail space. That's a hard thing to preserve.

Look at the retail dead zone created by the former…

]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:06:39 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349608#post349608 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349608#post349608 Coco's Cantina and Flying Out records are both prime examples of new businesses that are wholeheartedly embraced by our community, and by their own cultural communities.

It's interesting that since the gentrification panic around St Kevin's Arcade, K Road has gained Rebel Soul Records and become the new home of…

]]> Tue, 06 Oct 2015 16:47:57 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349607#post349607 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-built-heritage-special-places-and/?p=349607#post349607 Discussion from blog post.

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