Traditions

Unlike the Australians, who for various reasons have lost the traditions of the mother country, New Zealanders have changed very little habits of Englishmen transplanted to the southern hemisphere. Also, in the early, there was a remarkable phenomenon of urbanization, formed many medium-sized cities, inhabited by a few thousand inhabitants, in which life was centered on a main street with stores. Less parochial characters are the four cities with regional pole functions of both islands. From the point of view of urbanism are similar to European cities, primarily English, with a management and commercial center, consists of various styles palaces that house banks, offices, shops and cinemas, around which lie the residential neighborhoods, often by houses made ​​of wood, covered with corrugated sheets, and the small front garden, quiet streets and scattered trees, where the family is its intimacy.