Dr Lee Beattie PhD | MNZPI |MRSNZ
Dr Lee Beattie is an urban designer and urban planner with almost 30 years professional experience in an extensive range of complex urban design and urban planning matters including dealing with large scale housing and mixed used developments, infrastructure and transportation projects, and town center developments projects throughout New Zealand. He has qualifications in urban design, urban planning, and environmental science.
He is an Associate Professor of Urban Design and Head of the University of Auckland’s School of Architecture and Planning, where he teaching urban design theory and practice and masterplanning. His current research interests explore the factors and barriers that are preventing the delivery of compact and quality urban form that is sustainable, resilient, liveable, meets the needs of local residents and reduces travel demand (sustainable and resilient communities) and effectiveness of transit orientated development in both the local and international (Asia/Pacific rim) context.
Lee is an Independent Hearing and Duty Commissioner for the Auckland Council and Queenstown Lakes District Council and an Independent Hearing Commissioner for a number of Councils throughout New Zealand. He has presented expert evidence in the District Court, Environment Court, Maori Land Court and High Court on a range of urban planning and urban design matters, and evidence has also been considered in Court of Appeal proceedings.
In 2018 he was awarded the NZPI’s John Mawson Award of Merit for co-writing and editing (with Associate Professor Caroline Miller) Planning Practice in New Zealand, New Zealand’s first planning textbook about planning and urban design in New Zealand, now in its second edition (2022). In 2016 he was awarded the NZPI’s Distinguished Service Award for his contribution to the profession in New Zealand
Professional Societies:
Awards:
Published Books:
Miller, C.L. & Beattie, L., (2022), Planning Practice in New Zealand, Lexis Nexis, Wellinton, N.Z (2nd Ed).
Haarhoff, E., Allen, N., Austin, P., Beattie, L., & Boarin, P. (2019). Living at Density in Hobsonville Point, Auckland: Residents Perceptions . Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenge.
Beattie, L., & Miller, C. (co-editors), (2017), Planning Practice in New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand: Lexis Nexis
Haarhoff, E., Hunt, J., Beattie, L., Manfredini, M. & Gu, K., (2013), At Home in the City: thinking through urban design challenges in New Zealand, Balasoglou Books, Auckland, N.Z.
Haarhoff, E., Beattie, L., Dixon, J., Dupius, A., Lysnar, P. & Murphy, L., (2012), Future Intensive: Insights for Auckland’s Housing, University of Auckland/Transforming Cities, Auckland, N.Z.
Key Papers:
Parekh, J., Liu, W. & Beattie, L. (2023. Multi-sensory evaluation of urban design in creating obesity encouraging environments: The experience of town centres in Auckland, New Zealand, Frontiers in Sustainable Cities: Health and Cities, 5:1178056
Chuang, I. & Beattie, L. (2023). The Role of the Urban Design Review Panel in a Master-planning Community Development: A case Study of Hobsonville Point, New Zealand, Land 12(8), pp 1572.
Chuang, I., Beattie, L. & Feng, L. (2023). Analysing the Relationship between Proximity to Transit Stations and Local Living Patterns: A study of Human Mobility within a 15 Min Walking Distance through Mobile Location Data, Urban Science, 7(4) pp 105.
Liu, W., Beattie, L & Haarhoff, E. (2022). Outcome-focused plan discretion for facilitating residential intensification: Exploring the insights and experience of property developers and planners, Land Use Policy, 109
Liu, W., Beattie, L & Haarhoff, E. (2021). Residential intensification through a new statutory plan in Auckland: outcome evaluation and stakeholders’ experience, Urban Research & Practice, 14(2) pp 1-21.
Allen, N., Haaroff, E. & Beattie, L., (2018), Enhancing liveability through urban intensification: The idea and role of neighbourhood, Cogent Social Science, Feb 2018, vol 4, pp. 1-17.
Beattie, L. & Haarhoff, E., (2017), Urban growth, liveability and quality urban design: Questions about the efficacy of urban planning systems in Auckland, New Zealand, Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, vol.2, no.2, pp. 12-23.
Haarhoff, E., Beattie, L. & Hunt, J., (2017), Improving the quality of the built environment using Urban Design Review Panels: An appraisal of practices and outcomes in Australia and New Zealand, Journal of Engineering and Architecture, vol.5, no.2, pp. 1-13.
Haarhoff, E., Beattie, L. & Dupius, A., (2016), Does higher density housing enhance liveability? Case studies of housing intensification in Auckland, Cogent Social Science, Oct 2016, vol 2, pp. 1-16.
Beattie. L. & Haarhoff, E., (2014), Delivering Quality Urban Consolidation on the Urban Fringe: A Case Study of University Hill, Melbourne, Australia, The Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, vol.7, no.4, pp. 333-346.
Dr Lee Beattie is an urban designer and urban planner with almost 30 years professional experience in an extensive range of complex urban design and urban planning matters including dealing with large scale housing and mixed used developments, infrastructure and transportation projects, and town center developments projects throughout New Zealand. He has qualifications in urban design, urban planning, and environmental science.
He is an Associate Professor of Urban Design and Head of the University of Auckland’s School of Architecture and Planning, where he teaching urban design theory and practice and masterplanning. His current research interests explore the factors and barriers that are preventing the delivery of compact and quality urban form that is sustainable, resilient, liveable, meets the needs of local residents and reduces travel demand (sustainable and resilient communities) and effectiveness of transit orientated development in both the local and international (Asia/Pacific rim) context.
Lee is an Independent Hearing and Duty Commissioner for the Auckland Council and Queenstown Lakes District Council and an Independent Hearing Commissioner for a number of Councils throughout New Zealand. He has presented expert evidence in the District Court, Environment Court, Maori Land Court and High Court on a range of urban planning and urban design matters, and evidence has also been considered in Court of Appeal proceedings.
In 2018 he was awarded the NZPI’s John Mawson Award of Merit for co-writing and editing (with Associate Professor Caroline Miller) Planning Practice in New Zealand, New Zealand’s first planning textbook about planning and urban design in New Zealand, now in its second edition (2022). In 2016 he was awarded the NZPI’s Distinguished Service Award for his contribution to the profession in New Zealand
Professional Societies:
- Full Member of the New Zealand Planning Institute (1998)
- Member of the Urban Design Forum (2009)
- Member of the Royal Society of New Zealand (2014)
Awards:
- New Zealand Planning Institute's John Mawson Award of Merit (2018) for co-edited and contributions in Planning Practice in New Zealand, now in its second edition
- New Zealand Planning Institute's Distinguished Service Award (2016) for his contribution to the profession
- New Zealand Planning Institute’s Wallace Ross Graduate Research Award (2014)
- New Zealand Planning Institute’s Award of Merit (2007) for developing professional practitioner training programmes
Published Books:
Miller, C.L. & Beattie, L., (2022), Planning Practice in New Zealand, Lexis Nexis, Wellinton, N.Z (2nd Ed).
Haarhoff, E., Allen, N., Austin, P., Beattie, L., & Boarin, P. (2019). Living at Density in Hobsonville Point, Auckland: Residents Perceptions . Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenge.
Beattie, L., & Miller, C. (co-editors), (2017), Planning Practice in New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand: Lexis Nexis
Haarhoff, E., Hunt, J., Beattie, L., Manfredini, M. & Gu, K., (2013), At Home in the City: thinking through urban design challenges in New Zealand, Balasoglou Books, Auckland, N.Z.
Haarhoff, E., Beattie, L., Dixon, J., Dupius, A., Lysnar, P. & Murphy, L., (2012), Future Intensive: Insights for Auckland’s Housing, University of Auckland/Transforming Cities, Auckland, N.Z.
Key Papers:
Parekh, J., Liu, W. & Beattie, L. (2023. Multi-sensory evaluation of urban design in creating obesity encouraging environments: The experience of town centres in Auckland, New Zealand, Frontiers in Sustainable Cities: Health and Cities, 5:1178056
Chuang, I. & Beattie, L. (2023). The Role of the Urban Design Review Panel in a Master-planning Community Development: A case Study of Hobsonville Point, New Zealand, Land 12(8), pp 1572.
Chuang, I., Beattie, L. & Feng, L. (2023). Analysing the Relationship between Proximity to Transit Stations and Local Living Patterns: A study of Human Mobility within a 15 Min Walking Distance through Mobile Location Data, Urban Science, 7(4) pp 105.
Liu, W., Beattie, L & Haarhoff, E. (2022). Outcome-focused plan discretion for facilitating residential intensification: Exploring the insights and experience of property developers and planners, Land Use Policy, 109
Liu, W., Beattie, L & Haarhoff, E. (2021). Residential intensification through a new statutory plan in Auckland: outcome evaluation and stakeholders’ experience, Urban Research & Practice, 14(2) pp 1-21.
Allen, N., Haaroff, E. & Beattie, L., (2018), Enhancing liveability through urban intensification: The idea and role of neighbourhood, Cogent Social Science, Feb 2018, vol 4, pp. 1-17.
Beattie, L. & Haarhoff, E., (2017), Urban growth, liveability and quality urban design: Questions about the efficacy of urban planning systems in Auckland, New Zealand, Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, vol.2, no.2, pp. 12-23.
Haarhoff, E., Beattie, L. & Hunt, J., (2017), Improving the quality of the built environment using Urban Design Review Panels: An appraisal of practices and outcomes in Australia and New Zealand, Journal of Engineering and Architecture, vol.5, no.2, pp. 1-13.
Haarhoff, E., Beattie, L. & Dupius, A., (2016), Does higher density housing enhance liveability? Case studies of housing intensification in Auckland, Cogent Social Science, Oct 2016, vol 2, pp. 1-16.
Beattie. L. & Haarhoff, E., (2014), Delivering Quality Urban Consolidation on the Urban Fringe: A Case Study of University Hill, Melbourne, Australia, The Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, vol.7, no.4, pp. 333-346.