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Cover -- Title page -- Imprint -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Dairying in question -- 3 Making lamb futures -- 4 The merino story -- 5 The two lives ofthe kiwifruit industry -- 6 Securing the future of apple production -- 7 New Zealand Wine: seeking success beyond growth -- 8 Tourism, landscapes and biological resources -- 9 The Taniwha economy -- 10 The Banks Peninsula promise -- 11 Central Otago transformed -- 12 Reimagining Hawke's Bay -- 13 Te Ipu Kai and the Food Innovation Network -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index

This substantial book focuses on the social life of the New Zealand city between the 1840s and about 1920. The evocative title is an invitation to the reader, the term originally emerging to portray "the sense of anticipation and excitement" of going to and experiencing the city and city life. Its application historically to New Zealand cities as they began to grow is described as "surely aspirational – or ironical" (p. 29)

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking -- Part I Encounters -- 2 A fragile plenty: pre-European Māori and the New Zealand environment: Atholl Anderson -- 3 Contesting resources: Māori, Pākehā and a tenurial revolution: Evelyn Stokes -- 4 Resource frontiers, environment and settler capitalism, 1769-1860: Jim McAloon -- Part II Colonising -- 5 Settlers transforming the open country: Robert Peden and Peter Holland -- 6 Mining the quarry: Terry Hearn -- 7 Destruction under the guise of improvement? The forest, 1840-1920: Graeme Wynn -- Part III Wild places -- 8 Children of the burnt bush: New Zealanders and the indigenous remnant, 1880-1930: Paul Star and Lynne Lochhead -- 9 The meanings of mountains: Eric Pawson -- 10 'Swamps which might doubtless Easily be drained': swamp drainage and its impact on the indigenous: Geoff Park -- Part IV Modernising -- 11 The grasslands revolution reconsidered: Tom Brooking and Vaughan Wood -- 12 An interventionist state: 'wise use' forestry and soil conservation Michael Roche -- 13 On the edge: making urban places: Eric Pawson -- 14 The empire of the rhododendron: reorienting New Zealand garden history: James Beattie -- Part V Perspectives -- 15 Postcolonial environments: Katie Pickles -- 16 An updated history of New Zealand environmental law: Nicola Wheen -- 17 Ngāi Tahu and the 'nature' of Māori modernity -- 18 Mastering the land: mapping and metrologies in Aotearoa New Zealand: Andreas Aagaard Christensen -- 19 Epilogue: Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking -- Notes -- Glossary of Maori terms -- Index.

1 Introduction PART I Damage and displacement 2 The fracturing of a vulnerable city 3 Impacts on households and communities PART II Recovery and renewal 4 Governance and the cartographies of recovery 5 Housing recovery 6 City centre recovery and commercial property investment 7 Voluntary and community sector responses PART III The city in transition 8 From transitional activities to place-making 9 Landscapes of consumption 10 The eastern suburbs 11 The more-than-human city 12 The residential red zone: the city's field of dreams? 13 Conclusion