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Almighty Auckland
Paperback Edition: 1
Diverse, fractious and endlessly expansive, Auckland escapes simple description. People love Auckland for a hundred different reasons. Just as many others have just as many reasons not to embrace the place. For them, Auckland turns its face away from its hinterland, as it looks outwards
to other Pacific and Asian economies, cultures and societies.
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In the New Zealand context, Auckland is exceptional, and sometimes spectacularly so. Almightier than thou it may seem in our small national pond; but understanding Auckland necessitates wider contexts. This is New Zealands leading locale for arts and fashion, for smart industry and high education. Embracing ethnic and sexual difference, Auckland rapidly outgrows constraints born from earlier suburban and speculative developments. But how far and how fast this diversity will go remains an open question. Where and with whom does Aucklands future lie?
The contributors share a background in social sciences, especially in Sociology, introducing readers to social thinking through material drawn from their own experience in their own back yard.
Pages : 294
Publisher : Dunmore Press
Publication date : 2003
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Politics, Socialism & Left-of-centre Democratic Ideologies