Auckland City

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Auckland City
Country:	New Zealand
Auckland City: Orange areas area show the city's area within the greater Auckland conurbation's urban area (grey). The city centre is ringed. Note that the city also encompasses islands of the inner (upper right) and outer Hauraki Gulf.
Territorial Authority
Name:	Auckland City
Mayor:	Dick Hubbard
Population:	404,658 (2006 census)
Extent:	Auckland isthmus, Hauraki Gulf islands
Area:	637 km² (246 sq mi)
Website:	http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz
Regional Council
Name:	Auckland Regional Council
Website:	http://www.arc.govt.nz

This article is about the City of Auckland. For general overview of the whole metropolitan area, see Auckland.

Auckland City (informally Central Auckland) is the territorial authority covering the Auckland isthmus and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf. The Auckland urban area consists of the urban parts of this city and its neighbouring cities, namely North Shore, Waitakere, and Manukau, along with parts of the nearby Papakura, Rodney and Franklin Districts.

Auckland City is the largest city in New Zealand, with the provisional estimated resident population being 425,400 as at 20 June 2005. The Auckland Regional Council is based in Auckland City. The city's mayor is Dick Hubbard.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Calls for greater integration 2 Geography 3 List of suburbs 4 Sister Cities 5 External links 6 References

[edit] History

In November 1989, Central Government restructured local authorities throughout New Zealand. After substantial protests and legal challanges, Auckland City was merged with eight smaller local authorities to form a new Auckland City. The new city had double the population of the old and the amalgamation set the present-day boundaries of the city.

[edit] Calls for greater integration

Recently, connected with discussions about rates increases and plans to improve the public services of the region, which some consider substandard for a city of this size, there have been calls for further integration, namely with the other cities of the Auckland conurbation, or even forming a unitary authority.

• Defenders of such a move point out that there are currently eight elected Councils (seven local councils and one regional council), with the associated bueraucratic efficiency problems.

• Opponents tend to point to 'failed' mergers of other urban areas, and generally doubt claims of improved efficiency. They also perceive the proposed merger as being less democratic.

[edit] Geography

The mainland part of Auckland City lies on an isthmus. The Waitemata Harbour, which opens to the Hauraki Gulf, separates the isthmus from North Shore City and north. The Manukau Harbour, which opens to the Tasman Sea, separates the isthmus from Manukau City and the south.

The islands of the inner gulf include Rangitoto, Motutapu, Browns Island, Motuihe, Rakino, Ponui and Waiheke, while the outer gulf islands include Little Barrier, Great Barrier and the Mokohinau Islands. A significant portion of Auckland's CBD is built on land reclaimed over the last 100 years. Substantial development of such under-utilised areas to the west of the CBD has been projected, with large businesses beginning to relocate there as of 2006.

[edit] List of suburbs

These lists of suburbs are arranged electorally, by the Wards, starting from the west:

Avondale-Roskill
Avondale,Blockhouse Bay,Lynfield,New Windsor,Hillsborough, Three Kings, Waikowhai, Mount Roskill, Lynfield, Sandringham,Wesley

Eden-Albert
Balmoral, Morningside, Mount Albert,Mount Eden,Owairaka, Kingsland,Sandringham, Waterview

Western Bays
Grey Lynn, Newton,Western Springs, Point Chevalier, Westmere,Ponsonby,Herne Bay

Hobson
Inner City ward
Epsom, Greenlane, Newmarket, One Tree Hill, Parnell,Remuera,Mechanics Bay, Grafton,Newton, Freemans Bay, Saint Marys Bay.

Eastern Bays
Mission Bay, Kohimarama, Saint Heliers, Orakei, Glendowie, Meadowbank, Saint Johns

Tamaki - Maungakiekie
Glen Innes, Point England, Tamaki, Panmure, Mount Wellington, Ellerslie. Otahuhu, Westfield, Southdown, Penrose, , Oranga, Te Papapa, Onehunga, Royal Oak,

For the suburbs of the other cities within the Auckland urban area, see North Shore, Manukau and Waitakere.

[edit] Sister Cities

Auckland City has five sister cities and two friendship city relationships. All of these cities are located on the Pacific Rim.^[1]

Sister Cities Brisbane, Australia Guangzhou, China Fukuoka, Japan Busan, South Korea Los Angeles, United States

Friendship Cities Tomioka, Gunma, Japan Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan

[edit] External links

• Auckland City Council (local authority website for Auckland)
• History of Auckland City by Graham Bush
• Heart of the City (website by the Auckland CBD business' association)

[edit] References

1. ^ Sister Cities. Retrieved on 7 October 2006.