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The research programme, “Tu Whare Ora – Building Capacity for Māori Driven Design in Sustainable Settlement Development” seeks to increase Māori capacity and input into housing and settlement design in New Zealand. It reflects a growing desire among many Māori to be more active in planning and shaping living environments for their people and the overall settlement patterns within either their respective rohe or the contemporary environments in which they now live. This bibliography has been taken from the 2008 report, “Tū Whare Ora – Building Capacity for Māori Driven Design in Sustainable Settlement Development.”

The “Tū Whare Ora” reviews the literature relevant to the Māori built environment. The review covers the spectrum of Māori housing from pre-European times, through the state-sponsored Māori housing schemes of the 1950s, up to the current climate of iwi/hapū advocating for kaupapa Māori based solutions for housing.

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