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The big smoke : New Zealand cities, 1840-1920 / Ben Schrader.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Williams Books, 2016Description: 480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780947492434
  • 0947492437
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.760993 23
Contents:
1. Building Towns, Selling Cities -- 2. Towns Becoming Cities -- 3. Social and Cultural Life -- 4. Maori and the City -- 5. City Crowds -- 6. Street People -- 7. Creating Healthy Cities -- 8. Backlash Against the City.
Summary: "Explores such questions as: what did cities look like and how did they change; why were women especially drawn to live in cities; in what ways did Māori experience and shape cities; how far was the street a living room and stage for city life; and why did New Zealand so quickly became a nation of townspeople?"--Publisher information.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 307.760993 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A540953B

National Library of New Zealand Cataloguing in Publication (CiP) record.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Building Towns, Selling Cities -- 2. Towns Becoming Cities -- 3. Social and Cultural Life -- 4. Maori and the City -- 5. City Crowds -- 6. Street People -- 7. Creating Healthy Cities -- 8. Backlash Against the City.

"Explores such questions as: what did cities look like and how did they change; why were women especially drawn to live in cities; in what ways did Māori experience and shape cities; how far was the street a living room and stage for city life; and why did New Zealand so quickly became a nation of townspeople?"--Publisher information.

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