A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in SWF format. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Manchester Street, Lichfield Street, and High Street on 7 February 2013.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in SWF format. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Manchester Street, Lichfield Street, and High Street on 5 March 2012.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in SWF format. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Colombo Street, Hereford Street and High Street on 5 March 2012.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in SWF format. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Colombo Street, Hereford Street and High Street on 1 June 2014.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in SWF format. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Colombo Street, Hereford Street and High Street on 7 February 2013.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in SWF format. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Colombo Street, Hereford Street and High Street on 23 August 2012.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in SWF format. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Manchester Street, Lichfield Street and Hereford Street on 1 June 2014.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in SWF format. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Colombo Street, Hereford Street and High Street on 24 June 2013.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken at the western intersection of Cathedral Square and Worcester Street on 23 August 2012.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken at the eastern intersection of Cathedral Square and Worcester Street on 5 March 2012.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in SWF format. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Colombo Street, Hereford Street and High Street on 4 January 2014.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken at the southern intersection of Cathedral Square and Colombo Street on 23 August 2012.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in SWF format. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Manchester Street, Lichfield Street, and High Street on 4 January 2014.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken on Tunnel Road, near the Lyttelton Road Tunnel Authority building on 6 October 2011.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken at the western intersection of Cathedral Square and Worcester Street on 24 May 2015.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in SWF format. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Manchester Street, Lichfield Street, and High Street on 23 August 2012.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken at the western intersection of Cathedral Square and Worcester Street on 5 March 2012.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in SWF format. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Durham Street, Kilmore Street and Victoria Street on 7 February 2013.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken at the eastern intersection of Cathedral Square and Worcester Street on 24 May 2015.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken at the University of Canterbury, between von Haast and Engineering on 7 January 2014.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken at the northern intersection of Cathedral Square and Colombo Street on 24 May 2012.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken at the eastern intersection of Cathedral Square and Worcester Street on 4 January 2014.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in SWF format. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Durham Street, Kilmore Street and Victoria Street on 4 January 2014.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken at the eastern intersection of Cathedral Square and Worcester Street on 1 June 2014.
Following devastating earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 in Christchurch, there is an opportunity to use sustainable urban design variables to redevelop the central city in order to address climate change concerns and reduce CO₂ emissions from land transport. Literature from a variety of disciplines establishes that four sustainable urban design variables; increased density, mixed-use development, street layout and city design, and the provision of sustainable public transport, can reduce car dependency and vehicle kilometres travelled within urban populations- widely regarded as indicators of the negative environmental effects of transport. The key question for the research is; to what extent has this opportunity been seized by NZ’s Central Government who are overseeing the central city redevelopment? In order to explore this question the redevelopment plans for the central city of Christchurch are evaluated against an adapted urban design matrix to determine whether a reduction in CO₂ emissions from land transport is likely to be achieved through their implementation. Data obtained through interviews with experts is used to further explore the extent to which sustainable urban design variables can be employed to enhance sustainability and reduce CO₂ emissions. The analysis of this data shows that the four urban design variables will feature in the Central Government’s redevelopment plans although the extent to which they are employed and their likely success in reducing CO₂ emissions will vary. Ultimately, the opportunity to redevelop the central city of Christchurch to reduce CO₂ emissions from land transport will be undermined due to timeframe, co-ordination, and leadership barriers.
Located on the edge of two tectonic plates, New Zealand has numerous fault lines and seismic risk across the whole country. The way this risk is communicated affects whether people prepare effectively or at all. Research has shown that perceptions of risk are affected by slight changes in wording, and that probabilities commonly reported by experts and media are often interpreted subjectively based on context. In the context of volcanoes, research has found that given a certain probability of a volcano in a specific time window, people perceive risk as higher in later time intervals within that window. The present study examines this pattern with regard to earthquakes and aftershocks in the New Zealand context. Participants in both Wellington (N = 102) and Christchurch (N = 98) were presented an expert statement of earthquake risk within a given time window in Wellington and aftershock risk in Christchurch, and asked to rate their perception of risk in specific intervals across the time window. For a Wellington earthquake, participants perceived risk as incrementally higher toward the end of the 50 year time window whereas for a Christchurch aftershock, risk perception increased slightly for the first three intervals of the 12 month time window. Likelihood of preparing was constant over the time windows, with Wellington citizens rating themselves more likely than Christchurch citizens to prepare for either an earthquake or aftershock, irrespective of current level of preparedness. These findings suggest that people view earthquakes as more likely later toward the end of a given time window and that they view aftershocks very differently to scientific predictions.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Manchester Street, Lichfield Street, and High Street on 5 March 2012.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Manchester Street, Lichfield Street, and High Street on 4 January 2014.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Durham Street, Kilmore Street and Victoria Street on 1 June 2014.
A zip file of an interactive 360-degree panoramic photograph in HTML5 format. The photograph was taken at the intersection of Durham Street, Kilmore Street and Victoria Street on 28 March 2012.