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What is the place of nature in the urban regeneration of central Christchu…

Research papers, Lincoln University

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.

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A member of the South Australian Urban Search and Rescue team digging through rubble in the central city.

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A photograph of a flight of concrete stairs salvaged from a building and placed in a car park in the Christchurch central city.

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A photograph of a flight of concrete stairs salvaged from a building and placed in a car park in the Christchurch central city.

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A photograph of rubble piled up in a car park in the Christchurch central city. Several flights of concrete stairs can be seen.

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A photograph of bricks stacked outside a house in the Christchurch central city. Bricks can also be seen in the green bins behind.

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An aerial photograph the Christchurch Central City. The photograph has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Hotel Grand Chancellor closely surrounded by the Westpac Building and the Holiday Inn".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Christchurch Cathedral".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Christchurch Cathedral".

Victoria Street Post Quake

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An aerial photograph of the Christchurch central city. The photograph has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The central city, with the Majestic Theatre in the centre of the photograph. Lichfield Street runs from bottom left diagonally up the photograph to the top right. The City Council building is prominent in the bottom left corner and Latimer Square in the top left corner".

Eating Away Slowly

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Demolition work on Christchurch's "distinctive" former civic building and the Front Runner store. On a walk around Christchurch May 9, 2013 New Zealand. Demolition work on Christchurch's "distinctive" former civic building is under way. The category-2 heritage building was designed by G A J Hart and opened in 1939 as the Miller's department s...

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A photograph of the former Central Library on Gloucester Street. The entrance has been boarded up with plywood and the footpath is covered in dead leaves. To the left, a sign reading 'Library Open' is still standing outside.

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A photograph looking across several sites of demolished buildings in the Christchurch central city. A excavator can be seen clearing rubble from a site.

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An aerial photograph of the Christchurch central city with Gloucester Street running through the centre of the photograph, and Clarendon Towers in the middle.

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A photograph of a plaque dedicate to those who lost their lives in City Mall during the earthquake of 22 February 2011. The plague is located under a tree in Re:START mall.