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Kōrero: City parks and green spaces

Wellington, 1841

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Wellington, 1841

It was easy to provide green spaces in colonial settlements like Wellington, where land such as the wooded Te Ahumairangi Hill (Tinakori Hill), left, could be set aside as a town belt in the town plan. New settlements also had plenty of ‘unofficial’ green spaces, within the town boundaries or close by.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: C-025-010

by Charles Heaphy

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Kerryn Pollock, City parks and green spaces – Origins of green spaces, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/20551/wellington-1841 (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 26 February 2010.

Comments

demon
06 August 2010
why did wellington look like this and what was its effects when it got changed