The CBC Vision
CBC actively promotes the idea of Wellington as a living city. We work to ensure that Wellington is a diverse, vibrant and safe place to live, work, play and learn.
CBC's has a vision for Wellington -
- a city with a strong heart, connected to a web of urban villages
- clean, green and energy efficient
- a place where people celebrate and cherish their diversity and their city's history
- people of all ages and abilities being able to move around safely and easily
- ample public spaces for people to meet, mingle, perform and enjoy
Who Are We?
CBC is a voluntary community-based organisation. People who are interested in our vision for Wellington are encouraged to help us in ways that they enjoy. CBC's energy, resources and ideas are based on people taking responsibility, having fun and doing something they believe in.
What Do We Do?
CBC's activities are limited only by our imaginations. Examples of CBC's activities are:
- playing a leading role in mobilising Wellingtonians to help save the Te Aro area and the city as a whole from plans for a new road through Te Aro (the inner city 'bypass').
- promoting understanding of how transport and land use patterns work together to help or hinder our city's development
- making submissions and organising campaigns in favour of innovative, effective public transport
- providing information about the way transport choices affect our city
- running community campaigns to reduce car dependence
- organising cabarets and street theatre
How Do We Do It?
Living cities come about through a creative partnership between the wider community and decision makers. CBC advocates inclusive decision making.
CBC works to facilitate communication and to enable all people to find their voice. CBC provides inspiration and leadership by empowering people to make a difference. We believe in community responsibility and active power sharing.
CBC works by consensus and welcomes new energy and new ideas. We believe in mutual support, fun and friendship.
A Bit of Background
Campaign for a Better City Incorporated (CBC) was a community organisation that aimed to help create a more sustainable future for Wellington City. CBC was formed in 1992. In 1996 we became an incorporated society. In 2005 the incorporated society went into receivership due to unpaid court costs.
We have nearly two decades of history behind us. Until 1992 CBC was called the Motorway Awareness Group. The name was changed to reflect our growing awareness of the wider issues surrounding the proposed motorway project which brought the group into being.
The Motorway Awareness Group was the successor to the Motorway Action Group. This earlier group was formed in 1980 to fight the proposed motorway extension through Te Aro, which is the living heart of Wellington City. Nearly two decades later, this roading plan remains alive but two decades community action has so far kept the bulldozers out.
CBC's concerns are broader than just motorways. Helping save Te Aro remains a major focus but we now campaign on a wide range of issues relating to community participation in decisions and sustainable transport. We desire to see principles of sustainability become a central part of city planning and transport policy. To this end CBC promotes the concept of "Living Cities"; cities which are "green", vibrant and alive, rather than cities that consist of a dead concrete core.
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