Suburban Nirvana?

After striving from Yamoussoukra to Tunis to turn trouble-spots to hot-spots aspirational living guide Wallpaper magazine strolls down the “1930s model of modern living” – Savage Crescent, Palmerston North. Named after the then Prime Minister, Savage Crescent was a state-housing project based on the utopian ‘garden city’ philosophy – the ideal that a nuclear family would be happy living in suburbia away from the mean streets in the city.