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‘City deals’ are coming to NZ – let’s make sure they’re not ‘city back-room deals’

  • Written by Tom Baker, Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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As local and regional councils struggle with inadequate infrastructure and unsustainable costs, New Zealand will be hearing a lot more about the potential solution offered by so-called “city deals”.

These deals are relatively long-term agreements between different levels of government (and sometimes other parties) about...

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