Editing Napier, New Zealand (section)

===20th century===
On 3 February 1931, most of Napier and nearby Hastings were levelled by [[1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake|an earthquake]]. The collapse of buildings and the ensuing fires killed 256 people. Some 4000 hectares of today's Napier were undersea before the earthquake raised it above sea level.<ref name="govt"/> The earthquake uplifted an area of 1500&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> with a maximum of 2.7 m of uplift. In Hastings, about 1 m of ground subsidence occurred.

[[Image:Napier Halsbury Chambers n.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Halsbury Chambers (architect [[Louis Hay]], 1932)]]
[[Image:Napier-SoundShell.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Sound Shell (built 1935) at night]]
[[Image:Napier-TypicalView.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Lit-up dome of the T & G building (built 1936) at dusk]]
[[Image:Napier fountain.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Tom Parker Fountain (built 1936) at dusk]]

The centre of Napier, destroyed by the earthquake, was rebuilt in the [[Art Deco]] style popular in the 1930s. Although a few Art Deco buildings were replaced with contemporary structures in the 1960s to 1980s, most of the centre remained intact for long enough to become recognised as architecturally important, and it has been protected and restored since the 1990s. Napier and the area of [[South Beach]], Miami, Florida, are considered to be the two best-preserved Art Deco towns (with the town of [[Miami Beach, Florida]], being mostly decorated in the somewhat later [[Streamline Moderne]] style of Art Deco). Beginning in 2007, Napier was nominated as a [[World Heritage Site]] with [[UNESCO]]. This is the first cultural site in New Zealand to be so nominated.<ref>[https://whc.unesco.org/pg_friendly_print.cfm?id=5125&cid=326& Napier Art Deco historic precinct]. UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved on 7 May 2012.</ref> It was denied World Heritage status in 2011 as it did not meet the appropriate criteria. Still, the report of the application acknowledged the Art Deco heritage as "first and foremost of outstanding value to all New Zealanders".<ref>{{Cite news |last=O'Sullivan |first=Patrick |date=16 September 2011 |title='No' to World Heritage status for Napier |url= https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/no-to-world-heritage-status-for-napier/UDYKQFYYNGQ63LHOSK5F5HLWSY/ |newspaper=Hawkes Bay Today |access-date=23 February 2023}}</ref>

In January 1945, the {{GS|U-862}} entered and departed from the port of Napier undetected. This event became the basis of a widely circulated postwar [[tall tale]] that the [[Kapitänleutnant|captain of this U-boat]], [[Heinrich Timm]], had led crewmen ashore near Napier to milk cows to supplement their meagre rations.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}