The coast is one of New Zealand's most diverse and exciting landscapes. Here, where sea meets land, a wide range of characters and habitats are created by the interaction between the two. Changes in season or weather bring ...

The evolved landscape setting of a container terminal can be perceived as an extensive warehouse from which the roof has been removed. Such a landscape setting is the product of the consumer age in which we live and is ...

This dissertation is concerned with the land and plants beside fresh water in the New Zealand cultural landscape - the landscape which has been modified by people to some extent. The aim is to suggest some design and ...

This study of the landscape of port waterfronts is appropriate because, after the culmination of perhaps several hundred years of growth, the quality of the landscape in these areas now needs to be redeveloped and upgraded. ...

When I was a child our family used to take an annual holiday every May. For a week we would tour the South Island, one year exploring the top of the South Island, the next the West Coast, while another, the Southern Lakes ...

The main function of this paper is as a pilot study. It suggests potential areas of activity and profitable avenues to investigate within the Education System. As the professions of landscape architecture and teaching ...

In recent times there have been a variety of approaches to the designation and design of urban open-space. The major concepts involved are those of the nineteenth century American Romantic Suburb; the Company Towns; the ...

The township of Akaroa is located on the eastern shores of Akaroa harbour which forms part of Banks Peninsula, a little over 8 kilometres from the headlands and almost 7 kilometres from the head of the harbour. It is reached ...

This study attempts to draw attention to landscape characteristics important in development, and specific to the Franz Josef region. The landscape study involves a survey of the existing village with regard to its regional ...

The forestry industry in New Zealand is well entrenched in the traditions of production economics, practicalities and progress and yet, at the same time, it occupies a very large proportion of the country's land which is ...