Christchurch, the Garden City

The Christchurch landscape is a highly modified natural environment and “Christchurch, the Garden City” has been a significant part of the colonial discourse on the city. This section of the Historical Christchurch site highlights a number of publications that reference this concept.

The publications that are fully digitised on the following pages include:

• Christchurch, N.Z. : "the garden city" (c.1930)
• Christchurch, the garden city of New Zealand (1968)
• Christchurch, New Zealand : the garden city of the dominion. (c.1917)
• Christchurch, the garden city of New Zealand (1925)
• The Riccarton Bush (1923)

For futher resources on 'Christchurch, the Garden City' please see the Ōtautahi - Christchurch: Natural Environment page from the UC Library subject guide. Further resources will be added to this section in the future.