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On the evening of February 7th, 1908 the headlines in the Star ‘screamed out’ A DISASTROUS FIRE, HUGE OUTBREAK IN THE CITY, CENTRAL BLOCK DEVASTATED, DAMAGE AMOUNTS TO HUNDREDS OF THOUS…
Cathedral Square hosted one of New Zealand’s most significant historic events after the armistice was signed by the Western Allies and the Central Powers on 11th November 1918 in Paris, Franc…
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.
Please contact supervisor Lin Roberts at Lincoln University to request a copy of this dissertation to read.Cities around the world are becoming greener, with many striving to make their cities as green as possible. Christchurch was devastated by an Earthquake in 2011, which resulted in many fatalities. Though this impacted the city negatively, this sad event was used as an opportunity for the broken city to become a better one. The Christchurch City Council (CCC) ran an exercise called ‘Share an Idea’, which asked the public what they wanted the new city to look like. The main theme extrapolated by researchers was that people wanted the city to be greener. A draft plan was created by the CCC but was deemed not good enough and replaced by a new plan called the Blueprint Plan created by the government. Through the process of public consultation to the finalized plan and the implementation of the finalized plan, there were many changes made to the inclusion of nature into Central Christchurch’s urban regeneration. The aim of this research is to assess the role of nature in the urban regeneration of Christchurch, by evaluating the recovery process, and comparing the level of greenness the public wanted by looking at what they said in Share an Idea, and then seeing how that translated into the proposed plans, and then finally looking at what is being implemented.
A photograph of temporary street furniture outside the temporary Central Library on Tuam Street. The furniture was designed and fabricated by F3 Design for the Christchurch City Council.
The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Canterbury Earthquakes will today begin to examine the failure of the building that's come to symbolise the damage to the central city.
A video of dance and physical theatre featuring Matt Grant and Elizabeth Guthrey, incorporating several central city locations. The voiceover is a poem written and read by Matt Grant.
A photograph of a volunteer from the Wellington Emergency Management Office ordering at a temporary café. The café was set up in a house in the Christchurch central city.
A photograph of a volunteer from the Wellington Emergency Management Office ordering at a temporary café. The café was set up in a house in the Christchurch central city.
A photograph of a member of the Wellington Emergency Management Office Emergency Response Team using a crowbar to open the door of a building in the Christchurch central city.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. A businessman walks down the street with two computers in the minutes after Tuesday's quake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. A businessman walks down the street with two computers in the minutes after Tuesday's quake".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Damage to the Bus Exchange on Lichfield Street caushed by the 23 December 2011 aftershock".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The partially-demolished Hotel Grand Chancellor viewed from Worcester Street, the lean on the left still visible".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The IRD building on Cashel Street seen from across the demolition site of the Occidental Hotel on Hereford Street".
A photograph of a building's roof lying on the ground, captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A collapsed building on Ash Street".
A photograph of the partially-demolished Hotel Grand Chancellor with the Holiday Inn to the left as well as two large cranes.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A pile of bricks which have crumbled from a wall and landed on a digger at a demolition on Lichfield Street. This is a result of the 23 December 2011 earthquake".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Clarendon Tower on the corner of Worcester Street and Oxford Terrace with a crane next to it".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A brick wall which collapsed onto a digger on the site of a demolished building on Bedford Row".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The McKenzie & Willis building on Tuam Street with bracing to support the facade".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The intersection of Madras Street and Chester Street. The building on the right is Community Health at 80 Chester Street East which was added to the demolitions list on 5 March 2012".
A photograph of a trailor selling food in Cathedral Square. The photograph has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "This recognises how many demolition and other workers are working inside the cordon now".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "ACC Building, Oxford Terrace with an exhortation to wear a dust mask and helmet when working there".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A worker clad in protective gear is dwarfed by the big trucks and diggers working on the demolition site of the building on the corner of Gloucester and Colombo Streets".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Mounds of demolition debris at the site of the Copthorne Durham on the corner of Durham and Kilmore Streets being sprayed with water to keep the dust down".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cambridge Terrace, near the Colombo Street Bridge. The melancholy air of this stretch of the river bank matches the sombre tone of the PGC site just across the road, where 18 people died".