Garden City image ‘needs hard work’
Little park land had been added to Christchurch since last century, Mr D. J. Miskell, a landscape architect. told the ; Canterbury Promotion Council. Although visitors left Christchurch with the im- - pression of a green city, this was true only in some areas, Mr Miskell said. The city must work hard if it wished to keep its Garden City im? age. he said. Areas of open space should be linked, and these links, such as riverbank walkways, - should not be broken by busy w roads, he said. If open spaces and the links between them were planned at the start, face-lifts would not i be needed later. Christchurch’s good soil and natural beauty should be exploited, Mr Miskell said. Tree-planting could relieve the starkness of tall buildings and give a human scale to city living by putting both people and buildings in proportion, he said.
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