Story: City boosters and promoters

More links and websites

• Canterbury Development Corporation

  The Canterbury Development Corporation is Christchurch’s economic development agency.

• Coloured views: images of the New Zealand city and town, 1880–1930

  A doctoral thesis by Dominic Alessio about city boosters.

• Grow Wellington

  Grow Wellington works to support businesses in Wellington.

• Major events

  Information and funding for major events, on the Ministry of Economic Development’s site.

More suggestions and sources

• Alessio, Dominic. ‘Promoting paradise: utopianism and national identity in New Zealand, 1870–1930.’ New Zealand Journal of History 42, no. 1 (2008): 22–41.

• Boyd, M. B. City of the plains: a history of Hastings. Wellington: Victoria University Press for the Hastings District Council, 1984.

• Gibbons, Peter. Connections: a century of commerce and industry in the Waikato, 1906–2006. Hamilton: Waikato Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 2006.

• Hamer, D. A. New towns in the New World: images and perceptions of the nineteenth-century urban frontier. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

• Hamer, David. ‘Towns in nineteenth century New Zealand.’ New Zealand Journal of History 13, no. 1 (1979): 5–24.

• Strongman, Thelma. City beautiful: the first 100 years of the Christchurch Beautifying Association. Christchurch: Clerestory, 1999.