The Journey

Comic artist Dylan Horrocks

Waitakere City presents a journey through time and space to New Zealand's first eco city.

The comic was created by world renowned comic artist Dylan Horrocks for the council. This brief history of Waitakere looks at how the eco city came into being and the relationship between the land, sea, indigenous wildlife and people.

It explores important links with the first people  who arrived and lived off the land (Te Kawerau a Maki and Ngati Whatua), through its first European settlers creating local industries such as vineyards, orchards, timber yards and potteries, and then to more recent residents who have included artists, poets, and other free-thinking individualists.

An important message in this comic is how changing urban sprawl to more sustainable lifestyles is producing improved local outcomes, with less congestion, more jobs, facilities and shops, better public transport options - such as rail; whilst helping to preserve the area's unique waterways and wilderness areas.

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