Twizel is a town in the Mackenzie Basin, part of the Mackenzie District of the Canterbury region of New Zealand’s South Island. Its residential population is 1,017, but in summer the population more than triples. The present town was built in 1968 as a greenfields project to service the Upper Waitaki Hydroelectricity Scheme, and at the height of the project in the 1970s, had a population peaked of around 6,000.
The town was laid out in a ‘Scandinavian’ fashion, featuring looping roads and pedestrian ways, making it usually far more direct to walk than use a car. Shops, school, and recreational parkland formed a hub in the centre of the town, around which the residential area were built. A previous version of this layout had been tried at Otematata. Accommodation was highly segregated: in addition to singlemen’s quarters in the middle of town, there was a series of different houses available, with the smallest for workers, staff houses for teachers and professionals, and the largest for engineers and other high-status residents.

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