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Quake Memorial - Photograph 16

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Flowers float down the Avon River during the River of Flowers memorial event. In the background, residents and workers look on. The photographer comments, "One year on, Riverside residents gather for a 2 minute silence and to cast flowers in the river. Riverside residents met at the Medway St bridge to commemorate the anniversary of the 22/2/11 quake".

Demolitions in Central Christchurch - Photograph 07

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Two workers look on as a long reach excavator demolishes the Crowne Plaza Hotel. The photographer comments, "The Crowne Plaza Hotel being demolished".

Demolition Day - Photograph 01

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A house in Richmond being demolished. Part of an external wall has been removed. The photographer comments, "The end of 393 River Rd".

Move to Library Level 5 - Photograph 01

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A member of the University of Canterbury's E-Learning team in their new office in the James Hight building.

Move to Library Level 5 - Photograph 02

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A member of the University of Canterbury's E-Learning team, Jessica Hollis, in their new office in the James Hight building. The photographer comments, " Jess Hollis settles in to her new workspace".

Move to Library Level 5 - Photograph 08

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Members of the University of Canterbury's E-Learning team in their new office in the James Hight building.

Move to Library Level 5 - Photograph 09

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A member of the University of Canterbury's E-Learning team in their new office in the James Hight building.

Move to Library Level 5 - Photograph 04

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A desk in the University of Canterbury's E-Learning team's new office in the James Hight building.

Move to Library Level 5 - Photograph 03

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Members of the University of Canterbury's E-Learning team in their new office in the James Hight building.

Move to Library Level 5 - Photograph 05

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A desk in the University of Canterbury's E-Learning team's new office in the James Hight building.

Christchurch Innovations: Recover Canterbury

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

The Canterbury earthquakes destroyed the Christchurch CBD and caused massive disruption to business across the region. There was an urgent need to support business survival and foster economic recovery. Recover Canterbury is a hub providing seamless support for businesses affected by the earthquakes, giving them easy access to government and commercial expertise in a one-stop shop.

Post-disaster landscapes

Research papers, Lincoln University

Disasters are a critical topic for practitioners of landscape architecture. A fundamental role of the profession is disaster prevention or mitigation through practitioners having a thorough understanding of known threats. Once we reach the ‘other side’ of a disaster – the aftermath – landscape architecture plays a central response in dealing with its consequences, rebuilding of settlements and infrastructure and gaining an enhanced understanding of the causes of any failures. Landscape architecture must respond not only to the physical dimensions of disaster landscapes but also to the social, psychological and spiritual aspects. Landscape’s experiential potency is heightened in disasters in ways that may challenge and extend the spectrum of emotions. Identity is rooted in landscape, and massive transformation through the impact of a disaster can lead to ongoing psychological devastation. Memory and landscape are tightly intertwined as part of individual and collective identities, as connections to place and time. The ruptures caused by disasters present a challenge to remembering the lives lost and the prior condition of the landscape, the intimate attachments to places now gone and even the event itself.