Abstract
This article examines the industrial and mercantile built heritage of New Zealand by considering a remarkable precinct in Dunedin of surviving commercial buildings from the second half of the nineteenth century. The city was then the country’s financial, commercial and industrial centre, having undergone a gold rush boom in the 1860s. A large industrial and commercial precinct was rapidly created on reclaimed land in the central city over the following three decades. This study seeks to emphasise the importance of the agricultural economy and the stock and station agency business in particular to urban growth; this urban-rural interdependency that shaped nineteenth-century Dunedin. This contradicts the common emphasis on the gold rush boom and its architectural legacy. This study adopts a landscapes approach, offering a holistic framework which recognises the inter-relationship of
Highlights
Neglected area of New Zealand's built environment is its industrial and mercantile heritage
At an international level in the Nizhny Tagil Charter for the Industrial Heritage defines industrial heritage as something which consists of the remains of industrial culture which are of historical, technological, social, architectural or scientific value
The motives for protecting the industrial heritage are based on the universal value of this evidence, rather than on the singularity of unique sites... [] industrial heritage is of social value as part of the record of the lives of ordinary men and women, and as such it provides an important sense of identity
Summary
Neglected area of New Zealand's built environment is its industrial and mercantile heritage. In Possessed by the Past he defines the relationship between history and the ‘cult of heritage’ as one where the former explains the past while the latter infuses the past with present purposes.[13] This work developed the ideas set out in The Past is a Foreign Country, which traced changing perceptions of the past over the last two centuries.[14] More recently, David Harvey has discussed the development of theoretical work on heritage and provided a case study of changing attitudes over the past three centuries towards a prehistoric site.[15] For New Zealand, the development of concern for the historic urban built environment was traced by P.
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