$ 75
$ 75
Howard Greive has enjoyed a decades-long association with a bach community on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula. For six years, he documented the development of a new subdivision in the sand dunes, by turns fascinated and saddened by the conversion of farmland into streets. Now, it’s a beautiful book designed by Catherine Griffiths and Bruce Connew, including a thoughtful essay on Greive’s connection to the place over more than 60 years.
When he presented the book at a book fair in Berlin, they asked what a subdivision was. “They had never heard of the term,” he writes. “What occurred to me is that this practice of taking farmland and converting large tracts into building plots is a peculiarly new world activity. Places that are recently colonised with relatively low population to land area and sufficiently wealthy enough people to pursue their dreams.”
