Visions for Dunedin: Charles Kettle's plan

What Was He Thinking?: Charles Kettle’s
1846 Plan for Dunedin

Everyone knows that Charles Kettle looked to Edinburgh’s
plan when he laid out the town of Dunedin. However, a
recently discovered plan of 1846 suggests far more was
going on. What street names did he avoid? Why were specific
people acknowledged? And, why was one prominent street
unnamed? Far from being a simple translation of Edinburgh
places, Kettle’s plan surprisingly reveals the surveyor’s more
layered – and at times often personal – concerns.

SPEAKER: Robin Skinner, Lecturer in Architectural History
and the Architecture of the Pacific at the School of
Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington.