Parks and Recreation – Moata Tamaira

Mappelgangers: Christchurch and Pawnee

TelevisionMoata5 October, 20160

I’ve written before about the thoroughly delightful fact that the street maps for Pawnee used in Parks and Recreation were based off a map of my very own hometown Christchurch. So I was pretty thrilled to be able to dig up some facts about how that came to be for an article on The Spinoff.

Christchurch is Pawnee…again

ChristchurchMoata26 January, 20150

A couple of years ago, Christchurch pop culture enthusiast (among other things), James Dann, noticed that the TV show Parks and Recreation was using a map of little old Christchurch as a stand in for Pawnee.