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Making New Zealand - Construction

Television (Full Length Episode) – 2018

This episode of Making New Zealand traces New Zealand's housing history, examining the way building construction changed as the population grew. A team of architectural historians including Bill McKay and Ben Schrader comment on New Zealand's changing communities, from Māori settlements to the bustling streets of Edwardian Dunedin and 1980s Auckland. The documentary highlights the ways building materials and a better understanding of essential infrastructure shaped each city. The devastating earthquakes in Napier and Christchurch emphasised the need for New Zealand to build back 'better'. 

We're lucky that New Zealand was settled by Europeans in the 1840s, and at that time there were new ideas about city planning — and parks and green belts and green spaces were a huge part of that.
– Architectural historian Bill McKay on the timing of European settlement affecting New Zealand's cities

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