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Porirua, New Zealand, Australia |
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Originally planned in the late 1940s to become a satellite town of Wellington with state housing, Porirua grew to a population of 55,000. In 1973 and 1988 major territorial additions were made to the city. It is probably the best example of the development of a mass housing scheme in New Zealand. The reason that Porirua has been flowering so greatly could be found in its large number of privately owned dwellings; the town is not a purely state housing area as for instance Naenae. In 60s the National Government tried to argue that the state housing shortage was over, using the growing surplus of state houses at particularly Porirua as evidence. Later the population fell to 50,000 parallel with an evolving reputation of poverty and crime. Some blame the little attention paid to community centres in the design of the city.
source: Gael Ferguson, Building the New Zealand Dream, The Dunmore Press Limited, New Zealand 1994 |
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