Building the New Zealand Dream
Author: Gael Ferguson
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780864691910
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The New Zealand Dream
Author: Shiela
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2019-11-21
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1543495958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a story and account of my life so far. This is the first book in my series. I will take you on my journey from birth, growing up in a beautiful country town. Moving to the suburbs, discovering New Zealands under ground. You will meet characters you may relate to and characters that will shock you. I will lead you into the world that surrounded me, strangled me, and nearly killed me. Then I will show you how I changed my world, escaped the traps, leading me here to tell my story.
Design and the Vernacular
Author: Paul Memmott
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-11-16
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1350294322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesign and the Vernacular explores the intersection between vernacular architecture, local cultures, and modernity and globalization, focussing on the vast and diverse global region of Australasia and Oceania. The relevance and role of vernacular architecture in contemporary urban planning and architectural design are examined in the context of rapid political, economic, technological, social and environmental changes, including globalization, exchanges of people, finance, material culture, and digital technologies. Sixteen chapters by architects designers and theorists, including Indigenous writers, explore key questions about the agency of vernacular architecture in shaping contemporary building and design practice. These questions include: How have Indigenous and First Nations building traditions shaped modern building practices? What can the study of vernacular architecture contribute to debates about sustainable development? And how has vernacular architecture been used to argue for postcolonial modernisation and nation-building and what has been the effect on heritage and conservation? Such questions provide valuable case studies and lessons for architecture in other global regions -- and challenge assumptions about vernacular architecture being anachronistic and static, instead demonstrating how it can shape contemporary architecture, nation building and cultural identities.
Changing Times
Author: Jenny Carlyon
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2014-02-01
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 1775580393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the &“golden weather&” of postwar economic growth, through the globalization, economic challenges, and protest of the 1960s and 1970s, to the free market revolution and new immigrants of the 1980s and 1990s and beyond, this account, the most complete and comprehensive history of New Zealand since 1945, illustrates the chronological and social history of the country with the engaging stories of real individuals and their experiences. Leading historians Jennifer Carlyon and Diana Morrow discuss in great depth New Zealand's move toward nuclear-free status, its embrace of a small-state, free-market ideology, and the seeming rejection of its citizens of a society known for the &“worship of averages.&” Stories of pirate radio in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf, the first DC8 jets landing at Mangere airport, feminists liberating pubs, public protests over the closing of post offices, and indigenous language nests vividly demonstrate how a postwar society famous around the world for its dull conformity became one of the most ethnically, economically, and socially diverse countries on earth.
Home Truths
Author: Philippa Howden-Chapman
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Published: 2015-11-20
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 0947492348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe poor standard of current housing, and the inability of too many people on low incomes to access decent housing, is causing a cascade of problems that are avoidable. Housing affordability. Unhealthy homes. Wealth inequality. Environmental sustainability. Social mobility. The state of New Zealand housing is central to many major issues confronting this country. In this wide-ranging BWB Text, leading international housing researcher Philippa Howden-Chapman reveals how New Zealand has lost its way on housing. This succinct introduction, drawing on two decades of award-winning research, helps chart a new way ahead for housing that is healthy, inclusive and sustainable.
A Concise History of New Zealand
Author: Philippa Mein Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1107402174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of this rugged and dynamic land is beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana to the twenty-first century.
Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields
Author: David Nichols
Publisher: UoM Custom Book Centre
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 674
ISBN-13: 1921775076
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The conference explores past and future approaches to managing and designing for growth, development and decline. This goes beyond debates over density, frontier development and renewal. It includes new fields of historical, policy and social research which inform discussion of heritage, growth, environmental, economic and other issues of urban life and urban form."--Page iii
Rewena and Rabbit Stew
Author: Katie Cooper
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2024-08-08
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 1776711335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCookhouses and wharekai, hangi pits and coal ranges, boil-ups and mutton &– this book tells the hearty story of sustenance and manaakitanga in rural New Zealand. The rhythms and routines of country life are at the heart of this compelling account of the rural kitchen in Aotearoa. Historian Katie Cooper explores how cooking and food practices shaped the daily lives, homes and communities of rural Pakeha and Maori throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Delving into cooking technologies, provisions, gender roles and hospitality, the story of New Zealand' s rural kitchen highlights more than just the practicalities of putting food on the table.Thoroughly researched and richly illustrated, Rewena and Rabbit Stew reveals the fascinating social and cultural milieu in which rural people produced, cooked and shared food in Aotearoa.
Vertical Living
Author: Julia Gatley
Publisher: Auckland University Press
Published: 2014-10-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1869408152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1946 a group of students and idealists got together to realise their visions for a modern city. Over the following half century, the Architectural Centre they founded helped to shape the possibilities of modern life in urban New Zealand and profoundly influenced the remaking of the capital city of Wellington. More than just an association of architects, the Centre furthered education, published a magazine – Design Review – hosted modernist exhibitions in its gallery, staged an audacious campaign for political influence called ‘the Project’ and fought for better planning, better design, better built environments in Wellington. Its members also built a demonstration house, but ‘planning was the battle-cry’. Charting these activists and their projects over the years, Julia Gatley and Paul Walker in Vertical Living also offer a history of urban Wellington from the 1940s to the 1990s and beyond. The book reminds us that, in modernist ideology, architecture and urban planning went hand-in-hand with visual and craft arts, graphic and industrial design. In recovering the multi-disciplinary history, politics and planning of the Architectural Centre, Gatley and Walker begin writing the city back into the history of architecture in New Zealand.
Sustainable Urban Architecture
Author: K. Thirumaran
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-04-29
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9811595852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Visionary Action towards Liveable Urban Environments (VALUE 2020). Various topics covered in this book include context responsive architecture, green architecture, energy efficient buildings, energy conservation, inclusive spatial environments, security in buildings and cities, green/smart/ intelligent architecture, sustainable mobility and smart communities. This book will be a valuable reference for students, researchers, and professionals interested in built environment and allied fields.
