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Eden Valley is an inner-city suburb of Auckland, the largest and most populous urban area in New Zealand.〔("QuickStats About Auckland City" ), Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 2012-10-10.〕 The suburb grew around Dominion Road, one of the Auckland’s main arterial routes. Eden Valley's commercial hub is made up of a collection of businesses, shops, and dining options that service the area. The eclectic collection of shop fronts and signage on Dominion Road has aptly been described as, "colour and chaos". The "colour and chaos" of the commercial hub is strongly contrasted by the surrounding residential area. Eden Valley is characterized by heritage buildings that house modern day businesses, a residential area that has a range of late Victorian, Edwardian and transitional bay villas, and basalt and scoria stone walls that give the area a long established feel. Eden Valley is located 3.5 km south of the Auckland Central Business District (CBD).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://maps.google.co.nz/maps?q=Auckland&oe=utf-8&aq=t&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&hl=en )〕 Dominion Road makes up the spine of Eden Valley; it runs south from Eden Terrace to Waikowhai – almost the length of the Auckland isthmus. Eden Valley itself has no definitive beginning or end, but generally runs from View Road to Ballantyne Square with the intersection of Valley Road and Dominion Road as its central axis from which the suburb radiates out. Maungawhau provides a navigational landmark to the east and Eden Park is located to the west. Dominion Road traverses some of Auckland’s early lava flows from volcanic Maungawhau and Te Tatua-a-Riukiuta; the undulations of the road clearly indicate the location of these flows.〔 ==History== Eden Valley, as a city suburb, originated as farmland before it was subdivided for residential use and commercial development followed. During the 1840s, John Walters, George Nicol and James Brown were early landowners of Eden Valley, holding substantial land for farming and quarrying stone. Auckland’s volcanic landscape was a blessing for the area; the fertile volcanic soil produced a variety of crops (wheat being extensively grown in the 1850s) and the volcanic stone proved to be a suitable material for road making. Suburban development in Auckland depended on the availability of land, affordable transport, and desire of the middle class to move out of the crowded inner city. Auckland experienced significant growth in population between 1874 and 1886, putting pressure on the areas closest to the city. The population growth combined with public transportation extending outside of the present city centre in the early 1880s created prime conditions for landowners to subdivide their properties for residential use. Eden Valley's commercial hub began to develop in the 1880s, but it was not until the early 1900s that the development really took off.〔 The development and expansion of Dominion Road from 1900 to 1930 mirrored that in nearby Mt Eden village. The principal corner sites were redeveloped with impressive Edwardian two storey shops with dwellings above. The number of shops increased in the 1920s after the intersection of Dominion Road and Valley Road became the end of the tram line.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eden Valley, New Zealand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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