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The Path Home: Dismantling the Supremacy of Real Estate
Get PDFReview of Samuel Stein, Capital City. A critical account of the age of real-estate capital and the transformation of the city
Imagining Beyond Decolonisation
Get PDFReview of Bianca Elkington et al, Imagining Decolonisation. An ‘ethic of restoration’ as a third way between Fanonian rupture and the exclusionary performativity of Pākehā overtures to decolonisation
Raupo Whare (c1860) and the Tale of the Missing Dog Box
Get PDFIn A History of New Zealand Architecture, Peter Shaw describes the European settlers of the 1840s encountering an architecturally-impoverished landscape. Skilled carpenters were still an uncommon migrant at that time and while some of the wealthier settlers brought prefabricated houses with them, for many their first accommodation in New Zealand were deserted shoreline whare. Moreover, these newest of New Zealanders were without familiar building materials and, as Shaw writes, they "emulated the style and construction methods of Maori dwellings and adapted them according to European ideas of hygiene and comfort." This explanation is characteristically ethnocentric in its confident view that European society, at that time, was architecturally superior. Sinclair has stated that it was colonial contact (principally commercial trade) which drew Māori from their sanitary patterns found in pā occupation. The grand view here is that the settlers adopted an indigenous typology to suit their own physical needs but that they maintained certain environmental and occupancy standards from "home." That is, the settlers would have preferred to have built in the model of the places they had just left but were forced, by the limits of land and labour, to adopt local materials and knowledge, and particularly those of Māori
Sailing too close to the wind in 1880s Wellington
No full textThe 1880s and early 1890s have been widely recognised as a time of depression in New Zealand. While well-known architects with substantial clienteles were generally able to survive the downturn in business, others struggled to make ends meet, showed signs of extreme stress, or occasionally resorted to sharp practices. Few in-depth studies have been able to show the broad spectrum of architects working in Wellington at a particular time as, until recently, it has been extremely difficult to accumulate the necessary data. The introduction of Papers Past has considerably simplified this task. We can now find and assess almost all the architects who made the news in different ways. Although more than 30 men claimed to be Wellington architects in the 1880s, not all of them were working. Some, such as Frank Mitchell, produced relatively large numbers of plans throughout the decade; many others appear to have been less successful, and to have turned their hands to other activities, for better or worse. In this paper we select a few of the more colourful "architects" residing in Wellington in the 1880s. Our candidates range from the aforementioned Frank Mitchell, through to Christopher Walter Worger, who being bankrupted in Christchurch, moved to Wellington in 1889. Leaving no record of any building designs, he had gone to Dunedin by 1906. Another enigmatic character was James Henry Schwabe, who escaped Dunedin and a rather public humiliation for Wellington in the late 1870s. Similarly, we discuss the erratic behaviour of W.J.W. Robinson, also escaping scandal in Dunedin to practise in the capital. Charles Zahl we find making a fleeting visit in early 1887, before absconding with a large sum of investors' money en route to Rio de Janeiro or Britain. We finish with the case of Ernest Wagner, released into the community after a year's hard labour in 1880. He never practised as an architect again - preferring, or being forced, to live as a farmer in the country south of Auckland. The examples we discuss are the exception rather than the rule. Of the bankruptcies recorded at the time, few came from the upper echelons of society. Some architects who were later prominent in Wellington moved offshore to better conditions in Australia (such as Joshua Charlesworth), whereas others such as William Turnbull were protected to some extent in successful partnerships in which they had a junior role
A critical review of the New Zealand Law Commission Report 144: The Use of DNA in Criminal Investigations
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Environmental footprinting of New Zealand agricultural products and implications for food nutrition
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Investment decisions quality in the real estate sector
Get PDFPurpose – The study aims to establish the relationship between information search precision and investment decision quality in commercial real estate investment in Uganda and as a corollary, to establish the contribution of each of the dimensions of information search precision (perfect rationality, satisficing rationality and decision weights) to quality of real estate investment decisions, using evidence from Uganda.
Design/methodology/approach – This study was cross-sectional and correlational. It used a sample of 200 residential housing real estate investors, and the data were analyzed using SPSS Version 20 to test the hypotheses put forward.
Findings – Results indicate that information search precision and investment decision quality are significantly associated. Results further indicate that perfect rationality is the most important predictor investment decision quality.
Originality/value – This study improves our understanding of investment decision quality in a developing country setting unlike previous studies which evaluated investment decision quality exclusively based on standard finance using evidence from developed economies. Using evidence from Uganda, the current paper shows that perfect rationality in real estate investment decision-making is the more important in such settings
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