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The making of "An architectural guide to Wellington"
No full textThis research report begins the development of an Architectural guide to Wellington.
The first stage of the research involved the analysis of the methodology of existing guides with a view to establishing the basic parameters involved. This analysis was achieved under the categories of Content, content Structure, Presentation & Format. Besides providing useful reference examples the results indicated that there was a relationship between both the 'end user' & Format and between Format & Content/content Structure.
The second stage used these same categories to form the basis of a questionnaire. The subjects of this were those people deemed most likely to use, or be involved in the use of, a Wellington guide. The aim was to develop a framework for such a guide, relative to Wellington. The results indicated clear preferences, amongst those responding, for a Booklet Format and for the Content to be structured around a Historical or Location basis.
Recommendations are made by the Author based on this research
An Hour with Alex Haley - Part 2 of 2
No full textAn Hour with Alex Haley, chaired by Ian Fraser. American author Alex Haley talks about the genesis of his novel "Roots" and answers questions. (2 tapes.) Radio New Zealand recording. Writers and Readers Week, Wellington, 15/03/1990
An Hour with Alex Haley - Part 1 of 2
No full textAn Hour with Alex Haley, chaired by Ian Fraser. American author Alex Haley talks about the genesis of his novel "Roots" and answers questions. (2 tapes.) Radio New Zealand recording. Writers and Readers Week, Wellington, 15/03/1990
Harry Ricketts reads a selection of his poems
No full textAuthor is on the staff of Victoria University of wellington.Recorded by the Stout Research Centre Literary Archive at a Wellington Poetry Society reading session, 20 April 1988
Lawrence and Wellington Mills
No full textPhotograph - Lawrence and Wellington Mills with their mother, Athabasca, Albert
Urban Local Governance in the Crucible: empirical overtones of central government meddling in local urban councils affairs in Zimbabwe
No full textThis article explores the criticalness of decentralized governance as a solution towards service delivery challenges experienced by urban centres. But, in Zimbabwe centre-local relations are a phenomenological reflection of a tendency towards (re)centralization than decentralization. This is clearly visible in the widespread political interference by central government’s Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing in the administrative affairs of urban councils. The results from a survey of a sample of fifty-two respondents on the Zimbabwean urban governance status revealed that issues of political interference revolved around the firing of legitimate councils and mayors, control of all council reforms including generation of funds, politicking in the chambers, unlawful appointments, and the use of commissions. Constitutional amendment has been cited as a big step towards political interference in urban governance of the country.decentralisation, citizenship, sustainable development, urban politics, constitution, financial management, interference
URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN ZIMBABWE: A HUMAN SETTLEMENT PERSPECTIVE
No full textThis paper examines and analyses the historical development of Zimbabwean towns and cities with a view to tracing and understanding policy directions, urban spatial development trends and other factors such as population dynamics that may have led to the development of the present-day urban settlements in the country. The paper observes that whilst pre-colonial cities existed during the golden age of the Munhumutapa dynasty and empire, these had no influence on the modern town and city because they were too distant and their experiences had long been lost by the time the colonial town was introduced in the country, some four centuries later. Furthermore the paper observes that whilst policy may easily be changed or even reversed, it is a near impossibility to do the same with the spatial physical developments such as buildings and infrastructure – roads, water reticulation, sewerage reticulation and treatment works, railway lines, telecommunication lines and power lines. As a result of these realities the form and structure of our cities has remained to a large extent as originally conceived, designed and developed with perhaps some cosmetic changes in the form of redevelopments and densification of certain sectors or areas and sprawling expansion. This has also led to the many challenges of urban poverty, inadequate housing, inadequate provision of serves (potable clean water, energy, and garbage collection) and environmental quality - issues of pollution- the towns and cities are grappling with today typified by Harare and Chitungwiza, which are sited upstream of their water supply sources and as a result pollute them. The paper also notes that the socio-economic policies and political expedience by both the colonial and independent governments have had significant impacts on the morphology (shape, structure and population distribution) of towns and cities of Zimbabwe.urban, development, human settlement, population, colonial, services, morphology, demography.
Fish larvae of the Wellington Harbour and South Coast 1997-1998
No full textStudies on the larval ichthyofauna of the Wellington region have largely concentrated on the Harbour itself. Only one author has described the early life history of species on the south coast of Wellington, and these studies were restricted to several species of small rocky intertidal fishes from the families Tripterygiidae and Gobiesocidae. The present study was carried out with the primary aim of describing as many species that occur as larvae on the south coast as possible, and extending the descriptions of larvae that already exist in the literature.
Samples were collected from three study sites: at Kau Bay in Wellington Harbour, and Lyall Bay and Island Bay on Wellington's south coast. Over a one-year study period, 19 samples were collected from each of the sites, and the larval teleosts in each were identified to the greatest extent possible and quantified. Thirty-three species from 21 families were positively identified over the course of the study, including the first record of a larva of Jack Mackerel, Trachurus declivis. Twenty species were recorded on the Wellington south coast for the first time, as were two species in Wellington harbour.
Wellington's southern coastline is characterised by very different hydrological and geological features to the harbour. With this in mind, the hypothesis was examined that the two south coast sites are likely to be more closely related to one another in terms of species composition and abundance than either is to the harbour site. Three indices were used to compare between and among the sites. All three returned evidence that the two south coast sites were more similar to each other than either one was to the harbour site.
Comparisons on a basic level were made between data collected in an earlier study of Frentzos (1980) from a similar depth contour in Kau Bay. While these sites were found to have similar species richness, few of the species in the current study were present in similar proportions to those described by Frentzos (1980).
Possible causes of the differences between the two studies are discussed. These include El Niño-induced warm water temperature, and the possibility that these conditions triggered both an episode of very high salp density, and possibly a bloom of the toxic phytoflagellate Gymnodinium brevisulcatum.
Comments are made on the difficulty of quantifying larval fishes because of the highly variable nature of larval assemblages in response to physical or temporal variables. Long term monitoring of ichthyoplankton is recommended as the only way of minimising the effects of high larval variability on short and medium term temporal scales
Index to the Journal of New Zealand Institute of Architects 1912-1980
No full textA cumulative index to the Journal of the New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) from 1912-1980 inclusive, giving entries by architect, building type, subject, place,author and title
Index to the New Zealand Architect 1981- 1985
No full textA cumulative index from 1981-1985 inclusive, giving entries by architect, building type/subject, place, author and title. Supplement t o WP82-13 : Brookes, Susan. Index to the journal
of the New Zealand Institute of Architects 1912-1980
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