A photograph captioned, "Nobody’s trained for this, you go to your lawyer and they can’t give you an answer because they've never faced this before, so yeah, even they are scratching around trying to find out".
A damaged house with cracks down the wall sits on an uneven surface.
Damage to a block of flats, with silt from liquefaction around the footpath, and road cones outside the property. The fence has been spray painted with the words "All units damaged. Keep out".
A photograph captioned, "The government's not stupid, they'll put three houses on each of these sections".
Its 12 years of accumulated stuff and I was thinking I was just going to get rid of everything. I had the feeling I didn't want to hang onto anything. We tried to get rid of a lot of stuff in a garage sale. Some of it went, some of it didn't. It's a long process".
A photograph captioned, "We get the young fellas to come in and do the upkeep on the government houses that have been sold. They cut down all the long grass and just tidy up all the fire risk sections. This one's easier cos the house is gone. If you keep it tidy it looks tidy from the road. There's people living here, and there's nothing worse than looking over your house and seeing grass this high".
A photograph showing St Paul's School's damage in Dallington, following the series of earthquakes in Christchurch.
A red-stickered house which has separated from its foundations.
A photograph captioned, "So they gradually go".
A photograph showing earthquake damage in a Dallington resident's home, following the series of earthquakes in Christchurch.
A photograph captioned, "See, Dallington still is beautiful".
The front porch of a red-stickered house.
A red-stickered house with cracking on the stairs.
Damage to a block of flats, with silt from liquefaction around the footpath, and road cones blocking the driveway.
Damage to a block of flats, with silt from liquefaction around the footpath, and road cones outside the property. The fence has been spray painted with the words "All units damaged. Keep out".
Damage to a block of flats, with silt from liquefaction around the footpath, and road cones blocking the driveway.
A red-stickered house with an overgrown yard.
The decision on what to do with Christchurch's earthquake damaged redzone is one step closer, with the end of the public consultation period on the plan for the area. Over the past month Christchurch people have been asked to comment on a draft land use plan for the 602 hectares of land. Now those pitching ideas want the authorities to get on with the next step, so they can have some certainty about whether their projects can go ahead.
Two years on from the February twenty second earthquake, large parts of Christchurch Hospital are a construction site as repairs to damaged wards continue.
The Earthquake Recovery Authority is knocking on the door of every red and orange zone resident in Christchurch to check on their welfare and offer them temporary accommodation if they need it.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 7 March 2011 entitled, "Day 14 - in the red zone".
A photograph of the former site of the house at 466 Oxford Terrace. The house was demolished after the land was zoned Red. Wire fencing has been placed in front of the site.
A torn advertising poster on a wall on High Street. The photographer comments, "Fashion Quarterly Autumn 2011 poster looks very unglamorous and neglected after being off limits for over a year in the Christchurch earthquake red zone".
A photograph of the former site of the houses at 422, 424, and 426 Oxford Terrace. The houses were demolished after the land was zoned Red. Grass has begun to grow over the sites.
An incomplete layout for the Zone Life page on the Press website.
A logo for a Zone Life feature titled, "Life on the edge".
A logo for a Zone Life feature titled, "Ideas for the transition".
A map showing proposed alcohol ban zones in Riccarton, Merivale, and Papanui.
An infographic showing the location of red zones in the Port Hills.
An infographic giving the history of suburbs in the residential red zone.