It's the city most Kiwis love to hate - the hulking, humid, heaving hub of Auckland.
How did it go from being on a relatively equal footing with Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin in the early 19th century to claiming a third of the country's residents by the late 20th?
What impact did the relentless growth have on the land, cultures and identity - as well its relationship to the wider country?
Historian Paul Moon has looked in depth at the development of Auckland over the 10 decades from 1900, drawing on diaries, newspapers and oral histories of the time.
The result is his book Auckland: The Twentieth-Century Story.
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