Andi Liu / 刘安迪

Stop "wasted" votes influencing Auckland's future - change to the Single Transferable Vote system

Andi Liu on LinkedIn: Waste stream sorting, at Auckland city centre's Diwali festival. I hope…

Newsroom article on security around public forums

Waiheke Q&A 🏝️

City Centre Residents' Group Q&A 🏙️

Vote Auckland candidate profile and policies 📝

BC woes 😐 - that a local council with more city centre representation could help prevent in future.

Policy.nz - Ward (Waitematā and Gulf)

Article draft on central gov room for improvement - Andi Liu

Arohanui 🥰

Reading material 1a: Waiheke homelessness

Reading material 1b: Pop-up community spaces in unoccupied stores. Could be good for community music and sport and art. Article in German: Dritter Laden auf Zeit in der Mündener Innenstadt bis Ende August.

Reading material 1c: Community spaces as "anchor tenants" cf. Wynyard Quarter

Reading materials 1d: Density (not) Done Right and noise control responsibilities deflected

Reading material 1e: Intensification can be done right but Te Atatū developers are “retrofitting intensification”.

Reading materials 1f: Emily Place developments feedback forum from 2021. Dishonest to lump traffic accidents (non-existent) with unrelated antisocial activity, in order to justify removal of residents' carparks on false premises, disrespecting "co-design"

Reading material 2a: FER (St John and Baucher, 2021)

Reading material 2b: Engels 1845

Reading material 3a: mussel-based construction materials from Kim Pickering's research

Reading material 3b: Seafood industry waste product could help protect New Zealand’s rivers and streams

Reading material 4: FAO paper with references on different riparian strip layouts

Reading material 5: why increase (restore) mussel beds in Hauraki Gulf

Reading material 6: P. canaliculus is 200x productivity of land-based farming

Reading material 7: shellfish as marine carbon sink (as opposed to terrestrial carbon sink which reaches steady-state saturation more easily and also contributes to sedimentation and biodiversity loss and loss of farmland - give fair credit to kaimoana)

Reading materials 8a: 3W quick summary

Reading materials 8b: DIA FAQ on 3W

Reading materials 8c: 3W summary of proposals June 2022

Reading materials 9: Extremist citizen's arrests could end in violence

Reading material 10: NZTA/WK report on second harbour crossing 2019/2020

Reading material 10b: ENGGEN403 report on harbour bridge failure scenario

Reading material 11: Membership fees of the City Centre Residents' Group

Reading material 12: good architectural design in medium-high density housing is not mandated

Reading material 13: The Kai Ika Project

My favourite idea: Auckland community access card 🥰

Article on local elections turnout and STV getting more representative representatives

Want STV not FPP? Here's Local Electoral Act 2001 😎

Direct Democracy and RNGesus 😂

Policy.nz - Local board (Waitematā)

Feedback form 🤔

Extra material 1: inequities in council funding for some wards

Extra material 2: Summary of waterfront and CBD plans from 2017

Extra material 3: scallop dredging is bad

Extra material 4: amazing murals

Extra material 5: cutting-edge community music

Extra material 6: an optimistic perspective from the Auckland Writers Festival, on media roles in spreading misinformation

Extra material 7: Music in Venues Fund

Bonus video of me talking about some locally-made musical instruments

Bonus video of me improvising on homemade spike-fiddle number 11

Bonus video of me playing spike-fiddle 4 (made from feral koi carp skin that I bowfished in the Waikato region, and local bamboo)

Bonus video of me playing some homemade 8-hole xiao flutes made this year

Bonus video of me improvising on homemade xiao flute number 1 (flute was made during 2020 Level 4)