Kia ora!
We (Eleanor and Marko) are known associates and bonafide friends who share an embarrassingly intense interest in all things urban. This substack is a place to put our various thoughts and enthusiasms down on (virtual) paper.
We’re both self-identified YIMBYs although, full disclosure, Eleanor doesn’t actually have a backyard and Marko only rents his.
We met volunteering for Generation Zero – a youth-led climate action organisation in Aotearoa New Zealand – where we worked together on a number of campaigns including the wildly successful City for People campaign that pressured Wellington City Council into significantly up-zoning the city in 2021.
Since then, we’ve both served brief stints in the public service. Marko is now a lawyer in Wellington and Eleanor has moved to the Netherlands for post-graduate studies.
We’ve recently co-authored an article for Works in Progress magazine on up-zoning New Zealand.
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Eleanor and Marko
Endorsements:
“they talk too much about busses” - friend
“young people” – government consultation reports (various)
“they taught me a lot” – Rebecca Matthews, YIMBY Queen & Wellington City Councillor
“outrageous”, “free-market deregulators”, “upstarts”, and “in the pay of developers or dangerously naive” – NIMBYs of undisclosed (to you) identities (we know who they are)
