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Catherine O’Sullivan: Assignment 2 - CCDN331

Critical Perspective:

While exploring as a flanuer I wanted to choose a city space that was closer to home and familiar. The new development area within Porirua City, Aotea, has remained untouched throughout my life but is now overnight being transformed from a large forestry area into a high value area with new residents and a new culture. The intention of this space is that the culture encourages expenditure and lifestyle evident through the high value properties and the close accessibility to services.

Due to my sister and her partner facing struggles within the New Zealand housing market currently, I decided to take an ironic look at the New Zealand housing market specifically in respect to this area in Porirua. This ironic perspective is stemmed from Porirua being considered a lower income area with high crime rates and a bad reputation.

Despres, Rowe and Vindler’s (1998), discussion of the housing market was of major importance in shaping my perspective, “The deterioration of the suburban dream, the social and racial dis-crimination with the institutionalization of public housing, and the inadequacy between normative housing programs, in a pluralist society are all factors, according to the author, pointing at the failure of modernism to provide adequate dwellings to all.” (87). I felt this statement provided a good platform for my perspective due to its discussion of public housing sectors and how they are intertwined with ideas of culture and hierarchy. The specific line in which they mention ‘the failure of modernism to provide adequate dwellings to all” is largely related to the point of view that homes and environments no longer cater to all kinds of people but rather those who either have lots of money or very little.

In respect to gamification the gain that these individuals feel when they purchase a high value home in this area can be related to a reward system where the highest bidder wins the idyllic area and the aspirational urban space to raise a family. To express my critical perspective I have chosen to view this new development area through the eyes of an investor or aspirational home owner. I chose to merge several mediums together those being a haiku, two separate soundtracks intertwined and image modifications.  As a flaneur I have zeroed in on the New Zealand housing market in a developing area.

References:

Després, C., Rowe, P. G., & Vidler, A. (1998). Modernity and Housing

Housing in New Zealand [Advertisement]. (1946). NZONSCREEN: New Zealands screen culture showcase. Via Archives NZ YouTube under Creative Commons CC BY licence. Private non-commercial use

Sold 325: Auctioning an impounded vehicle [Advertisement]. (2007, December 13). Retrieved from https://www.freesound.org/people/alphahog/sounds/44842/

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