Ian Shirley
Ian Shirley is Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, a member of the Policy Observatory and a former Pro Vice Chancellor at the Auckland University of Technology. He has led major research programmes in New Zealand and overseas including a 15-country study of the major metropolitan cities across Asia the Pacific and Latin America which was published in 2013 by Routledge as Asian and Pacific Cities.

National’s ‘super city’ isn't working, but not for the reasons National might think
The super city is broken, says eminent sociologist Ian Shirley – but it doesn’t need another review. It needs the government to fix the problems we already know about.