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Town planning

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Town planning

Town planners from the Wellington City Council stand around a map of the city in 1973. The different coloured squares represent different land-use zones and the wooden objects represent buildings, from factories to skyscrapers.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1973/0649/8

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Ben Schrader, City planning – From motorways to the Resource Management Act, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25752/town-planning (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 3 March 2010, updated 26 March 2015.