Living in the suburbs
Early Wellington suburbs
Slum housing, Auckland, 1905
First state houses, Petone
Property investment, Auckland
Garden suburb, Ōrākei
‘Housing the people’ poster
Building a state house, Tāmaki
Thorndon, 1850s
Horse-drawn tram, 1904 (1 o 4)
Electric tram, around 1920 (2 o 4)
Cable car, around 1940 (3 o 4)
Railways poster, 1930s (4 o 4)
Noisy suburb, quiet city
Opening up Auckland’s North Shore
Types of suburban housing
Women in the suburbs, 1950s
Men in the suburbs, 1950s
Recreation in Naenae, 1949
Government housing loans, 1950s
Building Porirua, 1958
Stuck in the suburbs
Ōtara street, 1970s
Nappy Valley
Nuclear family (1 o 3)
Solo mum (2 o 3)
Extended family (3 o 3)
St Lukes shopping mall, 1971
Ewen Gilmour, proud Westie
Restored villa, Freemans Bay
Apartments, Tauranga
Planned eco-suburb, Kāpiti Coast
Gated community
