Auckland'S Regional Growth Policy: Developments During The Last Two Decades

Introduction

The issues and planning practices now being experienced and used to plan the outward growth of Auckland, New Zealand, are discussed as part of a series reviewing planning the outward growth of Australia's metropolitan areas. While in the Australian context the largest metropolitan areas are also State capitals, in Auckland's case it can only lay claim to being New Zealand's largest and fastest growing metropolitan area. In settlement hierarchy terms Auckland is on a comparable level to Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth.