Dr David Turner is a senior lecturer at Unitec School of Architecture. In the architecture programme he has developed courses for environmentally sustainable construction, an innovative approach to design economics, and has taught urban planning and design in the undergraduate programme. In the postgraduate programme he has supervised over 40 completed final year Research Projects. David also runs two specialised urban housing design electives, one in the Bachelors Programme, and one in the Masters Programme, that address and critique the intersection of architecture and the socio-economic policies that impact on higher density housing typologies.