The colonization of New Zealand led to the
development of particular patterns of settlement.In
some cases models were derived from contemporay
British practice; in others they came from new world
settlements elsewhere. These settlements arose at
the same time as the belief that New Zealand was a
natural paradise and that it offered the opportunity
for the establishment of some kind of new and
perhaps even utopian model for settlement. The
Auckland suburb of Orakei as it developed in the
first decades of the twentieth century provides
fertile ground for the exploration of a number...