We Call it Home: A History of State Housing in New Zealand by Ben Schrader

$40.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine

Aimed at the general reader and highly illustrated, this is a history of state housing with a difference – re-telling the experiences of the designers, tenants and occupiers of New Zealand state houses from the 1940s to the present.Among hundreds of interviews the author discovers stories fro m some of the remotest parts of the West Coast, from state house kids growing up in 1950s Taumaranui and city-centres through to Middle Eastern migrants living in Mt Roskill in the 1990s. These human stories challenge many stereotyped views surrounding state housing, and critically examines popular ideas that tenants are bludgers or trouble-makers or that state houses are failed experiments in social engineering.The government’s involvement in housing and policy contextualise the experiences of those that built and those that lived and continue to live in state homes, giving balance to the human story behind this unique facet of New Zealand’s cultural heritage. reviewed in The Aucklander. The reviewer writes, "Whether as tenant, owner of just visitor, few New Zealanders will have escaped the influence of the state house. This book celebrates the mark they've made on us as individuals and as a nation." (15/06/05) ...Show more

RTA Studio - 15 Years: 15 Projects by John Walsh; Andrew Barrie; Andrea Gillian Hotere; Patrick Reynolds; RTA Studio Ltd. Staff (Contribution by)

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Art Deco Napier - Styles of the Thirties by Peter Shaw; Peter Hallett

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Buildings of New Zealanders by Michael Fowler; Robert Van de Voort; Conrad Sims

$35.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

The Houses of the Merchant Princes by John Stacpoole

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

John Kinder: A Taste for Architecture by John Stacpoole

$15.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Series: Kinder Lecture 1998 | Reading Level: very good

Auckland Architecture - A Personal View by Sait Akkirman

$75.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine

Colonial Style - Pioneer Buildings of New Zealand by Charles Fearnley

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

The Building: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu by Liz Grant

$10.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Landscape Planning Guide for Peri-urban and Rural Areas by Raewyn Peart

$15.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good

A guide to addressing landscape management issues in regional council policy statements and plans under the RMA, with a focus on landscape management issues arising in peri-urban and rural areas. Although the guide is primarily targeted at councillors and council staff involved in landscape policy devel opment, it will also be of assistance to people with an interest in planning for landscape management as well as those tho become involved in district plan preparation processes under the RMA. ...Show more

Living Space: Towards Sustainable Settlements in New Zealand by Claire Freeman and Michelle Thompson-Fawcett (eds)

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine

The sustainable development of communities, regions, nations and the planet has benn increasingly debated since the Rio Summit of 1992. Issues sucha s urban form, the relationship between urban areas and their rural hinterland, urban versus rural lifestyles, modes of transport, social justice, urban ren ewal and growing multicultural communities are all relevant. This book brings tohether the work of some of the people whose job it is to explore the concept of sustaianability and its application to New Zealand settlements. ...Show more

Sizing Up the City: Urban Form and Transport in New Zealand by Philippa Howden-Chapman, Keriata Stuart & Ralph Chapman (eds)

$20.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: near fine

Making New Zealand's transport sustainable will be one of the challenges of the coming decades. This book collects papers presented at national symposia on sustainable transport and urban form, and other recent writings on sustainability and our built environment. Contributors explain how public and pri vate transport contribute to our culture, how they interact with urban centres, and how they affect our lives, health and social wellbeing. Research shows the challenges we face in making our transport networks resilient and sustainable, and the contributors to this book suggest how we might start that task. ...Show more