This paper describes two city centre regeneration strategies by reviewing existing literature and carrying out case study analysis to examine the approaches to City Centre Regeneration (CCR) pursued by two provincial areas in New Zealand.

Findings from the exploratory case study analysis of the two examined cities revealed different approaches to CCR: (i) Invercargill – ‘demolition for redevelopment’; and (ii) Whanganui – ‘heritage preservation for regeneration’. Whereas the earthquake-prone building legislation has created logical arguments that have put earthquake-prone historical buildings in the spotlight for demolition in areas with weaker attachment to place, the same legislation has been used as a catalyst to provide opportunities for the seismic upgrade and preservation of the earthquake-prone historical buildings in areas with a stronger attachment to place.

These discoveries imply that the actions (or inactions) of councils shape the way their communities perceive the value of the historical buildings in their city centres. Also, the decreasing retention and increasing demolitions trends of heritage buildings in New Zealand's provincial city centres as a result of the earthquake-prone building legislation, have now triggered discussions that have contributed to the recent regulatory and financial incentives initiated by the central government to address the unintended consequences of the legislation on the vitality of provincial areas.

本文通过回顾现有文献并进行案例分析来描述两种城市中心再生策略，以研究新西兰两个省级地区推行的城市中心再生（CCR）方法。

通过对两个受调查城市进行的探索性案例研究分析发现，CCR采取了不同的方法：（i）因弗卡吉尔–“为重建而拆除”；（ii）旺格努伊–“遗产保护以供再生”。地震多发的建筑法规引起了逻辑上的争论，使地震多发的历史建筑成为人们关注的焦点，在拆除附着力较弱的地区进行拆除时，该法规已被用作催化剂，为地震的升级和保存提供了机会容易发生地震的地区的历史建筑。

这些发现表明，议会的行动（或不作为）决定了其社区对市中心历史建筑价值的感知方式。此外，由于地震多发的建筑法规，新西兰各省中心城市的文物建筑的保有量下降和拆除趋势不断增加，现在引发了讨论，这些讨论为中央政府最近发起的旨在解决这些问题的监管和财政激励措施做出了贡献立法对省区的活力产生了意想不到的后果。