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Four decades of failing to plan for population growth in Aotearoa New Zealand, and how we can use the Renewable Energy Transition to catch…

Sep 17, 2023

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Sep 17, 2023

Broken City

A forthcoming book about the fall and rise of Auckland, New Zealand

Dec 23

Broken City

Dec 23

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The Revolution that Nearly Was: How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaid

From Opportunism to Investment: Rethinking Economic Policy, 1850–1980

Chapter 7 of ‘The Revolution that Nearly Was: How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaid’

Aug 20

From Opportunism to Investment: Rethinking Economic Policy, 1850–1980

Aug 20

Published in
The Revolution that Nearly Was: How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaid

Overcoming Lions: Why Economics Needs to Drop the Cult of Opportunism

Chapter 6 of ‘The Revolution that Nearly Was: How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaid’

Aug 10

Overcoming Lions: Why Economics Needs to Drop the Cult of Opportunism

Aug 10

Published in
The Revolution that Nearly Was: How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaid

No Right to the City? The denial of indigenous urbanisation in Aotearoa

Chapter 5 of ‘The Revolution that Nearly Was: How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaid’

Jul 9

No Right to the City? The denial of indigenous urbanisation in Aotearoa

Jul 9

Published in
The Revolution that Nearly Was: How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaid

Rejected Takeoff: How New Zealand became an Unlucky Country

Chapter 4 of ‘The Revolution that Nearly Was: How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaid’

Jun 30

Rejected Takeoff: How New Zealand became an Unlucky Country

Jun 30

Published in
The Revolution that Nearly Was: How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaid

From Menders to Makers: How we Built a Manufacturing Nation

Chapter 3 of ‘The Revolution that Nearly Was: How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaid’

Apr 20

From Menders to Makers: How we Built a Manufacturing Nation

Apr 20

Published in
The Revolution that Nearly Was: How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaid

The Myth of Stagnation: How We Lost the Plot in the 1970s

Chapter 2 of ‘The Revolution that Nearly Was: How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaid’

Apr 9

The Myth of Stagnation: How We Lost the Plot in the 1970s

Apr 9

Published in
The Revolution that Nearly Was: How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaid

‘The Next Million’: Planning for Growth in the 1950s and 1960s

Chapter 1 of ‘The Revolution that Nearly Was: How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaid’

Apr 8

‘The Next Million’: Planning for Growth in the 1950s and 1960s

Apr 8

Published in
The Revolution that Nearly Was: How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaid

The Revolution that Nearly Was

How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaid

Mar 9

The Revolution that Nearly Was

Mar 9

Chris Harris, PhD

Chris Harris, PhD

I am an urban historian from Aotearoa New Zealand. With an engineering background, I also have a PhD in planning and economics.

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