Did you ever wonder where the concept of locking things up came from? The reality of human nature seems to be that ever since people have owned things that are deemed valuable, they need to be protected from theft. Not … Continue reading →
Beware the darkness, children, for there be monsters We love to characterise the dark as something to be feared, the territory of nightmares, of ghouls and ghosts and things that go bump. In our collective psyche it belongs to the … Continue reading →
A PDF copy of pages 340-341 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Quake City'. Photos courtesy of Canterbury Museum
A Gap Filler submission to the Christchurch City Council Draft City Plan on behalf of the Gap Filler Trust, Greening the Rubble Trust and Life in Vacant Spaces Charitable Trust. The submission recommeded that the Christchurch City Council retain the funding levels for these intiatives at 2012 levels ($565,000) rather than reduce them to $400,000 as proposed, and that this funding be tagged for projects citywide and not restructed to the central city.
A Gap Filler submission to the Christchurch City Council Draft City Plan requesting the permission to be heard at the public hearing with regards to changes to temporary activities and buildings.
A PDF copy of pages 130-131 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'CityView AR'. Photo with permission: HITLABNZ
A PDF copy of pages 274-275 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Central City Plan (Draft Central City Recovery Plan for Ministerial Approval, December 2011)'. Photos with permission: CCC
A Gap Filler submission to the Christchurch City Council Draft City Plan requesting the permission to be heard at the public hearing with regard to the Transitional City Chapter of the Draft City Plan.
A PDF copy of pages 40-41 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Temporary City Libraries'. Photo: Tim Church. With permission: Christchurch City Council.
A PDF copy of pages 326-327 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Sanctioned Graffiti Across the City'. Photos: Reuben Woods, Wongi FREAK Wilson (Deadpool Production, Graffalaphabet, BDS Full Production).
A PDF copy of pages 328-329 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Unsanctioned Graffiti Across the City'. Photo: Reuben Woods
A PDF copy of pages 48-49 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Reconstruction: Conversations on a City'. Photo: Tim Church. With permission: Christchurch City Council.
A PDF copy of pages 368-369 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Transitional City Audio Tour (The People's Perspective)'. Photos: Ryan Reynolds
A PDF copy of pages 44-45 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Colombo Street Temporary Streetscape'. Photo: Tim Church. With permission: Christchurch City Council.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 26 February 2011 entitled, "Shaken City".
A PDF copy of pages 42-43 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Oxford Terrace Temporary Streetscape and Interpretation'. Photo: Tim Church. With permission: Christchurch City Council.
The underlying geological issues hidden beneath Christchurch’s swampy plains meant that the city’s founders and their surveyors who chose this site for their planned city, knew nothing …
"We've got to find a way to bring young people in the city and then we'll be buzzing."
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 12 March 2012 entitled, "Central CERA City".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 11 September 2011 entitled, "Circling the City".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 6 June 2011 entitled, "Circumnavigating the City".
A PDF copy of page 138 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The page documents the transitional project 'CERA'.
A PDF copy of page 124 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The page documents the transitional project 'Plume'. Note that images have been removed from the page for copyright reasons.
Christchurch Described Christchurch, New Zealand, is called the “City of the Plains” for its streets are as level as a billiard table, giving the visitor an impression that each street…
This intriguing photograph taken at the junction of Cashel and High Street draws us back to a typical summer day in Edwardian Christchurch in February 1913. A summer rain fall has just cleared, all…
A PDF copy of pages 38-39 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Rebuild Central'. Photo: Tim Church. With permission: Christchurch City Council.
A PDF copy of pages 46-47 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Central Station: Temporary Bus Exchange'. Photo: Tim Church. With permission: Christchurch City Council.
The busiest intersection in the central city heaves under a rush of pedestrians, buses, trams, cyclists and private motor cars, pushing passed each other as they head for various parts of the city.
An entry from Gallivanta's blog for 28 August 2013 entitled, "No Bull ....in my city, yet!".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 10 December 2011 entitled, "'When a City Falls'".