“It’s a gestalt experience”: Landscape values and development pressure in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand

Collins, Damian; Kearns, Robin

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.11.010

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“…Feedback from focus groups indicated that the geovisualization was helpful for considering how certain fencing materials might align or conflict with the surrounding environment. Such aesthetic considerations are important when thinking about fostering positive visitor experience and sense of place (e.g., Collins and Kearns, 2010). The findings from this study thus align with previous research that found visualizations to be useful for showing how constructed elements can affect the "character" of a place (Salter et al, 2009).…”

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confidence: 85%

“…Dog management scenarios differed from fencing and mooring buoy scenarios in that they primarily involved modeling of place and involved little spatial modeling. Places can have fuzzy boundaries that are not always easily defined spatially (Collins and Kearns, 2010;McLain et al, 2013), and such was true for the dog scenarios where even though models were assigned locations (i.e., dogs, owners, and Parks Canada staff), it was generally understood that they would not be bound to these locations in the realworld. In contrast, fencing and mooring buoys were highly spatial in nature, and most agreed that some form of visual media would be useful for these scenarios (i.e., maps, if not the geovisualization).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Visualizing Our Options for Coastal Places: Exploring Realistic Immersive Geovisualizations as Tools for Inclusive Approaches to Coastal Planning and Management

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Effective coastal planning is inclusive and incorporates the variety of user needs, values and interests associated with coastal environments. Realistic, immersive geographic visualizations, i.e., geovisualizations, can serve as potentially powerful tools for facilitating such planning because they can provide diverse groups with vivid understandings of how they would feel about certain management outcomes or impacts if transpired in real places. However, the majority of studies in this area have focused on terrestrial environments, and research on applications of such tools in the coastal and marine contexts is in its infancy. The current study aims to advance such research by examining the potential a land-to-sea geovisualization has to serve as a tool for inclusive coastal planning efforts. The research uses Sidney Spit Park (BC, Canada) as a study site, and a realistic, dynamic geovisualization of the park was developed (using Unity3D) that allows users to interact with and navigate it through the first-person perspective. Management scenarios were developed based on discussions with Parks Canada, and these scenarios included fencing around vegetation areas, positioning of mooring buoys, and management of dog activity within the park. Scenarios were built into the geovisualization in a manner that allows users to toggle different options. Focus groups were then assembled, involving residents of the Capital Regional District (BC, Canada), and participants explored and provided feedback on the scenarios. Findings from the study demonstrate the geovisualization's usefulness for assessing certain qualities of scenarios, such as aesthetics and functionality of fencing options and potential viewshed impacts associated with different mooring boat locations. In addition, the study found that incorporating navigability into the geovisualization proved to be valuable for understanding scenarios that hold implications for the marine environment due to user ability to cross the land-sea interface and experience underwater places. Furthermore, this research demonstrated that building scenarios within a realistic geovisualization required modeling place-based characteristics (including soundscape) as well as spatial properties. This approach can allow users the ability to more comprehensively assess scenarios and consider potential options.

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Visualizing Our Options for Coastal Places: Exploring Realistic Immersive Geovisualizations as Tools for Inclusive Approaches to Coastal Planning and Management

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“…However, the subject of regulation is usually either people or property, a third subject, that of capital, is tied with the other two. The regulation of the second home is often the same as any other form of housing but, depending on the jurisdiction, second home properties can have additional layers of regulatory requirements because of their impacts on amenity landscapes and the housing stock available to permanent residents (Collins & Kearns, 2010;Hidle, Ellingsen, & Cruickshank, 2010). In addition, in the case of international second homes there are issues of rights and citizenship (Stapa, Musaev, Hieda, & Amzah, 2013), as well as potential concerns over foreign land ownership (Pitkänen & Vepsäläinen, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

Second homes planning, policy and governance

Hall

2014

Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events

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The topic of second homes has been of major interest in regional, rural and tourism planning and policy since the 1970s. More recently the lens of governance has also begun to be applied as a lens to the topic of mobility, including second homes. This paper provides a review of the literature on second homes, policy and governance and highlights major themes and issues including that of housing policy, sustainability, political representation and the environment. The paper suggests that research in the governance of second homes can help shed further light on problems of understanding and governing mobility and multiple dwellings in contemporary neoliberal globalisation. It highlights that that governance, policy and regulatory structures are much better geared to the stationery and the immobile than they are to the movement of people (and capital) between jurisdictions, as well as to mobile homes themselves.Keywords: mobility; neoliberal rurality; tourism; rural economic development; relationality; sustainability ResumenEl tema de las segundas viviendas ha sido de fundamental interés en la planificación y política regional, rural y turística desde 1970. Más recientemente, las lentes de forma de gobierno han comenzado también a ser aplicada en el tema de la movilidad, incluyendo las segundas viviendas. Este trabajo proporciona una revisión de la literatura sobre las segundas viviendas, la política y forma de gobierno y destaca temas y cuestiones fundamentales incluyendo la política de la vivienda, la sostenibilidad, la representación política y el medioambiente. El trabajo sugiere que la investigación en la forma de gobierno de las segundas viviendas puede ayudar a arrojar más luz a los problemas de compresión y dirección de la movilidad y múltiple residencia en la actual globalización neoliberal. Destaca que la forma de gobierno, la política y las estructuras reguladoras está mucho más orientadas al sedentarismo y la no movilidad que al movimiento de personas (y capital) entre jurisdicciones así como a la propias viviendas rodantes (i.e. caravanas). Leisure & Events, 2015 Vol. 7, No. 1, 1-14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2014 régionale. Très récemment, le sujet de la mobilité, y compris celle liée aux résidences secondaires, a été dans le collimateur de la gouvernance. L'objectif de cet article est de passer en revue les recherches faites sur les résidences secondaires, leur viabilité, la représentation politique et l'environnement. Cette étude suggère que la recherche faite sur la gestion des résidences secondaires peut permettre à mieux identifier certains problèmes liés à la compréhension et à la gestion de la mobilité, ainsi que de multiples formes de logements au sein de la globalisation néolibérale contemporaine. Elle souligne que la gouvernance, la politique et les structures de régulation s'orientent plus vers le stationnaire et l'immobilité plutôt que vers la mobilité des personnes (et du capital) entre les juridictions, ainsi que celle des maisons mobiles elles-mêmes.

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“…First, planning maps issued by the local authority – the Whangarei District Council (WDC) – labelled the sandspit a heritage area and ‘possible regional park.’ The latter descriptor lacked any official status but was a symbolic nod to long‐standing local aspirations for public ownership of the site. Second, and more formally, the bulk of the sandspit was classified as an ‘outstanding landscape area’ by the WDC – the highest level of landscape protection that local government in New Zealand can offer (Collins & Kearns ). Third, it was also officially recognised as containing sites of significance to Māori, as a coastal hazard zone, and as a flood‐susceptible area.…”

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“…The latter were frequently to the fore during the real estate boom of 2002–2007 (Peart ). Widespread coastal development at this time was often portrayed as to the detriment of affordability, accessibility and heritage and landscape values (Cheyne & Freeman ; Collins & Kearns , ; Collins ; Peart ). For Collins and Kearns (, p. 2914) widespread concern about coastal development at that time spoke to ‘a perception that coastal landscapes imagined as public, democratic, and relatively unspoiled are being transformed into elite and privatized spaces with a heavy human imprint.’…”

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Place attachment and community activism at the coast: The case of Ngunguru, Northland

Collins

Kearns

2013

N Z Geog

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The politics of place precipitated by a development proposal for a privately owned sandspit in Ngunguru, Northland, is examined in this article. It centres on residents' place attachment and the ways in which this helped to inform community resistance to development. A framing analysis of 23 stakeholder interviews conducted in 2008-2009 was carried out by the authors. Place attachment was centred on holistic appreciation of the sandspit's special values. A widespread view that exercise of private property rights over the site was deeply problematic was informed by this appreciation. Community ties were enhanced by shared perceptions of a threat to the sandspit.

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“It’s a gestalt experience”: Landscape values and development pressure in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand

Cited by 25 publications

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Visualizing Our Options for Coastal Places: Exploring Realistic Immersive Geovisualizations as Tools for Inclusive Approaches to Coastal Planning and Management

Visualizing Our Options for Coastal Places: Exploring Realistic Immersive Geovisualizations as Tools for Inclusive Approaches to Coastal Planning and Management

Second homes planning, policy and governance

Place attachment and community activism at the coast: The case of Ngunguru, Northland

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