Research aiming to tackle `zombie town` assumptions of places like Timaru
(WorldNews Business)

A national research project using Timaru as a case study is being welcomed by the business and local government for taking aim at the idea of `zombie towns`. The government-funded research, titled `Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities` is challenging the idea, expounded by economists such as Shamubeel Eaqub, that New Zealand towns are in permanent decline. One of the research`s authors,...