Some flowers that have fallen over in the garden of a house on Galbraith Avenue in Avonside.
A consent granted by the Christchurch City Council, providing consent to carry out earthquake repair work that may affect protected vegetation.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The bank of containers that protect the Sumner road from falling rocks".
A plastic crate that will be used to hold plants, or as seating at the Pallet Pavilion.
A photograph of damaged buildings on Madras Street. The facade is all that remains of the building on the left.
A residential property that has been damaged by the earthquakes. Next to it is pile of building rubble and bits of furniture.
A residential property that has been damaged by the earthquakes. Next to it is pile of building rubble and bits of furniture.
A photograph of damaged buildings on Madras Street. The facade is all that remains of the building on the left.
A photograph of damaged buildings on Madras Street. The facade is all that remains of the building on the left.
A photograph of empty sections that have been fenced off near the corner of Tuam Street and High Street.
The sign for Piko Wholefoods ready to be installed over that of the premises' previous occupants, The Movieman video shop.
A photograph of a sign indicating that the Civil Defence centre is closed. Information about other agencies is listed.
A close-up photograph of a stuffed penguin that is being stored at the Canterbury Cultural Recovery Centre.
The cordon on High Street. On the fence is a sign that says 'Please save High Street. The heart of Chch City'.
A photograph of road cones around a drain that has been lifted out of the ground on Avonside Drive.
A document which describes the process that SCIRT took to work with industry organisations to develop a civil trade qualification.
A cracked footpath on Sumner Road in Lyttelton. The picnic benches that overlook the harbour have been cordoned off.
A photograph of 270 St Asaph Street. A red sticker on the door indicates that the building is unsafe to enter.
This document contains a list of the roles of people that have requested access to the SCIRT GIS viewer.
A document that outlines objectives and ways of working collaboratively, which team members signed to show their commitment.
Detail of hay stacks and demolition rubble that have been left in an empty site on the corner of Armagh and Durham Street.
A plastic crate that will be used to hold plants, or as seating at the Pallet Pavilion.
View through the window of a hairdressers in Merivale. Inside broken glass and trophies that have fallen from display stands can be seen.
People walking through Hagley Park. In the background is a tree that has been uprooted and fallen over following the February earthquake.
A damaged property that has been fenced off with tape and road cones. A pile of building rubble sits beside the house.
The growing permanence and sophistication of Christchurch, is evident in this photograph of Lichfield Street. Taken by the Burton Brother’s, the photograph shows us that the little frontier …
Damage from the Christchurch earthquake that hit on 4/9/10 @ 4:35am. Measured 7.1 on the richter scale.
Heavy traffic at the corner of Moorhouse Avenue and Manchester Street as people attempt to leave the city centre shortly after the 22 February earthquake. The photographer comments, "Just after the aftershock settled on Tuesday afternoon, myself and colleagues fled our Tuam Street office to absolute devastation outside. We couldn't see more than a block in either direction due to the clouds of dust that had arisen from buildings that had just collapsed ... From here, we picked up our vehicles from the CCC car park and headed out to get out of the chaos to a position where we could check on loved ones ... As we got to Moorhouse Avenue, we found we had to quickly drive underneath [the Colombo Street overbridge]and carry on down to Brougham Street as the bridge was being closed at that moment. From Brougham, we headed back up towards Madras. The traffic lights were out and the intersection was chaos. Over the next couple of hours, we continued crawling through heavy traffic. Impressively, everyone was very orderly despite the feeling of panic and the continuing aftershocks. We chatted to others in other vehicles to exchange news and stopped to speak to a lady that had broken down following water in the engine after having driven hrough floods".
This section considers forms of collaboration in situated and community projects embedded in important spatial transformation processes in New Zealand cities. It aims to shed light on specific combinations of material and semantic aspects characterising the relation between people and their environment. Contributions focus on participative urban transformations. The essays that follow concentrate on the dynamics of territorial production of associations between multiple actors belonging both to civil society and constituted authority. Their authors were directly engaged in the processes that are reported and conceptualised, thereby offering evidence gained through direct hands-on experience. Some of the investigations use case studies that are conspicuous examples of the recent post-traumatic urban development stemming from the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010-2011. More precisely, these cases belong to the early phases of the programmes of the Christchurch recovery or the Wellington seismic prevention. The relevance of these experiences for the scope of this study lies in the unprecedented height of public engagement at local, national and international levels, a commitment reached also due to the high impact, both emotional and concrete, that affected the entire society.
The Canterbury Earthquake Sequence 2010-2011 (CES) induced widespread liquefaction in many parts of Christchurch city. Liquefaction was more commonly observed in the eastern suburbs and along the Avon River where the soils were characterised by thick sandy deposits with a shallow water table. On the other hand, suburbs to the north, west and south of the CBD (e.g. Riccarton, Papanui) exhibited less severe to no liquefaction. These soils were more commonly characterised by inter-layered liquefiable and non-liquefiable deposits. As part of a related large-scale study of the performance of Christchurch soils during the CES, detailed borehole data including CPT, Vs and Vp have been collected for 55 sites in Christchurch. For this subset of Christchurch sites, predictions of liquefaction triggering using the simplified method (Boulanger & Idriss, 2014) indicated that liquefaction was over-predicted for 94% of sites that did not manifest liquefaction during the CES, and under-predicted for 50% of sites that did manifest liquefaction. The focus of this study was to investigate these discrepancies between prediction and observation. To assess if these discrepancies were due to soil-layer interaction and to determine the effect that soil stratification has on the develop-ment of liquefaction and the system response of soil deposits.