Auckland Domain is one of the largest parks in the city, close to the CBD and having a good view of the Hauraki Gulf and Rangitoto island. Smaller parks close to the city centre are Albert Park, Myers Park, Western Park and Victoria Park.
While most volcanic cones in the Auckland Volcanic Field have been affected by quarrying, many of the remaining cones are now within parks, and retain a more natural character than the surrounding city. Prehistoric earthworks and historic fortifications are in several of these parks, including Mount Eden, North Head and One Tree Hill (Maungakiekie).
Other parks around the city are in Western Springs, which has a large park bordering the MOTAT museum and the Auckland Zoo. The Auckland Botanic Gardens are further south, in Manurewa.
Ferries provide transport to parks and nature reserves at Devonport, Waiheke Island, Rangitoto Island and Tiritiri Matangi. The Waitakere Ranges Regional Park to the west of Auckland offers beautiful and relatively unspoiled bush territory, as do the Hunua Ranges to the south.
Similar to the rest of the country, over half of Aucklanders profess Christianity, but fewer than 10% regularly attend church and almost 40% profess no religious affiliation (2001 census figures). The main denominations are Roman Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian. Pentecostal and charismatic churches are the fastest growing. A small community of Coptic Orthodox Christians is also present.
Recent immigration from Asia has added to the religious diversity of the city, so now about 10% of the population follow such beliefs as Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism, although there are no figures on religious attendance. There is also a small, long-established Jewish community
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University of Auckland is the most valued and financed research institutions in New Zealand.
The university offers many programs of study including the arts, business, education, music, pedagogy, architecture, planning, nursing, Creative and Performing Arts, theology, science, information management, computer science, engineering, medicine, optometrii, food sciences, law, pharmacy, fine arts.
Chancellor of the university is Hugh Fletcher.
The Auckland region has around 1.4 million inhabitants. Auckland is therefore many as the secret capital of New Zealand. The City of Sails, so named after the almost 250,000 officially registered sailing boats of all classes, is the economic and cultural center of the state. Auckland is the largest city in Polynesia, and that makes for example also felt in the city.
Unfortunately, the local politician for 50 years in the town clearly prefers the car. That is why the city is extremely fußgängerfeindlich. Commuting is an adventure; as a tourist, it is perhaps acceptable if one or the other bus simply fails (which occurs regularly). For most of Auckland are buses and trains but unfortunately no alternative locomotion. Therefore, only 7% use public transport regularly. Accordingly, the clogged roads. Moreover, since imported mainly older cars are driven, air pollution is a real problem (as in Germany before the introduction of catalytic converters and ASU).
There are also nice sides of the city: High Street in downtown, or Vulcan Lane are interesting, the Polynesian fresh markets (Otara Market on Saturday or Wellesley College on Friday), Parnell Village and Ponsonby Road. Watts Walking with a view to the Sky Tower can be at the end of Garnet Road, Cornwall Park invites to extensive walks among sheep On; the volcanic hills offer breathtaking views; Lava Caves, which in many places in the city of course, is to explore, and then there are Of course the beaches.
During the day, you can safely move in public. At night, outside the city center street very scanty.
Becoming a base against the Māori King Movement in the early 1860s and continued road building towards the south into the Waikato enabled Pākehā (European New Zealanders) influence to spread from Auckland. Its population also grew fairly rapidly, from 1,500 in 1841 to 12,423 by 1864. The growth occurred similarly to other mercantile-dominated cities, mainly around the port and with problems of overcrowding and pollution.
Trams and railway lines shaped Auckland's rapid expansion in the early first half of the 20th century, but soon afterward the dominance of the motor vehicle emerged and has not abated since; arterial roads and motorways have become both defining and geographically dividing features of the urban landscape. They also allowed further massive expansion that resulted in the growth of associated urban areas like the North Shore (especially after the construction of the Auckland Harbour Bridge), and Manukau City in the south.
A large percentage of Auckland is still dominated by a very suburban style of building, giving the city a very low population density. Although it has no more than a sixth of the population of London, it sprawls over an area almost as large (over 1,000 km2), making some services like public transport costlier than in other, high-density, cities,[10] but also allowing most Aucklanders to live in similar residential houses as the rest of New Zealand, though the section sizes are much smaller than in most of the rest of the country.
Auckland is home to many cultures. The majority of inhabitants claim European - predominantly British - descent, but substantial Māori, Pacific Islander and Asian communities exist as well. Auckland has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world and a higher proportion of people of Asian origin than the rest of New Zealand. Ethnic groups from all corners of the world have a presence in Auckland, making it by far the country's most cosmopolitan city.
The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country, with around 1.3 million residents, over a quarter of the country's population. Demographic trends indicate that it will continue to grow faster than the rest of the country. Increasingly cosmopolitan, Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world.[3]
It is a conurbation, made up of Auckland City (excluding the Hauraki Gulf islands), North Shore City, and the urban parts of Waitakere and Manukau cities, along with Papakura District and some nearby urban parts of Rodney and Franklin Districts. In Māori its name is Tāmaki-makau-rau, or the transliterated version of Auckland, Ākarana.
Auckland lies between the Hauraki Gulf of the Pacific Ocean to the east, the low Hunua Ranges to the south-east, the Manukau Harbour to the south-west, and the Waitakere Ranges and smaller ranges to the west and north-west. The central part of the urban area occupies a narrow isthmus between the Manukau Harbour on the Tasman Sea and the Waitemata Harbour on the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the few cities in the world to have harbours on two separate major bodies of water.
