WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 176

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a Stonehurst Accommodation building on Gloucester. The bottom storey of the building has collapsed and the top two storeys are resting on the rubble. One wall of the building has also collapsed, exposing the rooms inside.

Jim Baltaxe WEMO Photograph 070

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a house on Woodham Road. The house has come off its foundations as the bricks wall have crumbled, spilling onto the footpath in front. Road cones have been placed along the street to warn road users.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 62

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A photograph of a member of an emergency management team standing in front of an excavator on Manchester Street. The excavator is sitting on top of a pile of rubble from several earthquake-damaged buildings. In the background is another excavator clearing rubble.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 146

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a house. Large cracks have formed in between the bricks in the wall of the house. There is also a large crack on the left side of the second storey where the column has shifted.

Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 120

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A photograph of volunteers from the Wellington Emergency Management Office and a member of the New Zealand Army in front of Cowles Stadium on Pages Road. The stadium was set up as a Civil Defence Report Centre after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

Ray Whelan WEMO Photograph 27

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A photograph of volunteers from the Wellington Emergency Management Office at the canteen set up as part of a temporary Civil Defence headquarters after the 4 September 2010 earthquake. The headquarters was set up at the Mainland Foundation Ballpark on Pages Road.

Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 097

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A photograph of a volunteer from the Wellington Emergency Management Office speaking on the phone in an office at the Mainland Foundation Ballpark. The ballpark was set up by Civil Defence as an Emergency Report Centre after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

Nic Johns and Mark Osborne WEMO Photograph 096

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A photograph of a volunteer from the Wellington Emergency Management Office speaking on the telephone in an office at the Mainland Foundation Ballpark. The ballpark was set up by Civil Defence as an Emergency Report Centre after the 4 September 2010 earthquake.

Rebekah Rogers WEMO Photograph 093

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A photograph of a man at the 'free legal help' table in a temporary emergency management centre set up after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The table was set up by Community Law Canterbury to offer free legal help to those in need.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 65

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Domo furniture store on Tuam Street. A large section of the building has collapsed and the rubble has spilled onto the street below. Wire fencing has been placed around the building as a cordon.

Dan Neely WEMO Photograph 04

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Knox Church on the corner of Bealey Avenue and Victoria Street. The gable wall has crumbled, and the bricks have spilt onto the footpath in front. USAR codes have been spray painted on the walls.

WEMO ERT Set 2 - February 2011 - Photograph 18

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A photograph of emergency management personnel crossing the intersection of High, Colombo, and Hereford Streets. In the background is the earthquake-damaged Fisher's Building. Large sections of the top storey have collapsed, the masonry spilling onto the footpath and damaging the awning.

WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 070

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A photograph of an earthquake-damaged building on St Asaph Street. The top of the side walls have collapsed, the bricks and other rubble spilling onto the driveway and footpath below. Emergency tape has been draped over the driveway as a cordon.

WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 119

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Coachman Inn on Gloucester Street. Sections of the façade have crumbled, the bricks spilling onto the footpath in front. Wire fencing has been placed across the left side of the building as a cordon.

WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 223

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to a concrete beam inside a building. The wall around the beam has been removed to access the beam. Concrete near the bottom of the beam has crumbled and the steel reinforcement inside is now exposed.

WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 264

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A photograph of members of the Wellington Emergency Management Office walking down Gloucester Street towards the intersection of Manchester Street. Bricks from an earthquake-damaged building cover the footpath in the distance. Wire fences have been placed around the rubble as a cordon.

WEMO ERT Set 4 - March 2011 - Photograph 07

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A photograph of an earthquake damaged house. USAR teams have spray-painted a message on the side of the house. The message reads, "Pile cleared by dogs, 4 march". To the left, a pile of rubble is lying next to the house.

WEMO ERT Set 4 - March 2011 - Photograph 05

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A photograph of an earthquake damaged house. A USAR team has spray-painted a message on the side of the house. The message reads, "Pile cleared by dogs, 4 March". To the left, a pile of rubble is lying next to the house.

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A poem at Peter Majendie's installation '185 Empty Chairs', which remembers the 185 who died as a result of the 22nd February earthquake. The site is the demolition site of the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church".

Ray Whelan WEMO Photograph 29

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A photograph of stretchers and blankets in Cowles Stadium on Pages Road. The stadium was set up by Civil Defence as temporary accommodation for citizens displaced by the 4 September 2010 earthquake. In the background are a stack of mattresses and a cot.

WEMO ERT Set 1 - March 2011 - Photograph 64

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Domo furniture store on Tuam Street. A large section of the building has collapsed and the rubble has spilled onto the street below. Wire fencing has been placed around the building as a cordon.

BeckerFraserPhotos December 2011 photograph 2017

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Octagon Live Restaurant, formerly Trinity Congregational Church, on the corner of Manchester and Worcester Street. This was further damaged in the 23 December 2011 earthquake when a big piece of the rose window fell out".

WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 265

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A photograph looking south down Manchester Street from the intersection of Gloucester Street. Bricks from an earthquake-damaged building cover the footpath. Wire fences have been placed around the building as a cordon. The SBS building can be seen in the distance.

Rebekah Rogers WEMO Photograph 082

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Cranmer Courts on the corner of Montreal and Kilmore Streets. A large section of the building has crumbled, masonry spilling onto the footpath below. Wire fencing has been placed around the building as a cordon.

WEMO ERT Set 3 - February 2011 - Photograph 165

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A photograph of the earthquake damage to the Kenton Chambers on Hereford Street. The bottom right section of the building has collapsed, the bricks and other rubble spilling onto the footpath below. Large cracks have formed between the windows of the building.

Identifying inanga spawning sites in plans: options for addressing post-qu…

Research papers, University of Canterbury Library

The purpose of this assessment is to compare records of known inanga spawning sites in the waterways of Ōtautahi Christchurch from before and after the Canterbury earthquakes, with particular emphasis on information used in the design of planning methods for spawning site protection.

Swimming with ideas: What happens to creativity in the wake of a disaster …

Research Papers, Lincoln University

Creativity that is driven by a need for physical or economic survival, which disasters are likely to inspire, raises the question of whether such creativity fits with conventional theories and perspectives of creativity. In this paper we use the opportunity afforded by the 2010-2013 Christchurch, New Zealand earthquakes to follow and assess the creative practices and responses of a number of groups and individuals. We use in-depth interviews to tease out motivations and read these against a range of theoretical propositions about creativity. In particular, we focus on the construct of “elite panic” and the degree to which this appeared to be evident in the Christchurch earthquakes context. Bureaucratic attempts to control or limit creativity were present but they did not produce a completely blanket dampening effect. Certain individuals and groups seemed to be pre-equipped to navigate or ignore potential blocks to creativity. We argue, using Geir Kaufmann’s novelty-creativity matrix and aspects of Teresa Amabile’s and Michael G. Pratt’s revised componential theory of creativity that a special form of disaster creativity does exist.

Governing community resilience: Interconnections between community resilie…

Research papers, University of Canterbury Library

The lived reality of the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes and its implications for the Waimakariri District, a small but rapidly growing district (third tier of government in New Zealand) north of Christchurch, can illustrate how community well-being, community resilience, and community capitals interrelate in practice generating paradoxical results out of what can otherwise be conceived as a textbook ‘best practice’ case of earthquake recovery. The Waimakariri District Council’s integrated community based recovery framework designed and implemented post-earthquakes in the District was built upon strong political, social, and moral capital elements such as: inter-institutional integration and communication, participation, local knowledge, and social justice. This approach enabled very positive community outputs such as artistic community interventions of the urban environment and communal food forests amongst others. Yet, interests responding to broader economic and political processes (continuous central government interventions, insurance and reinsurance processes, changing socio-cultural patterns) produced a significant loss of community capitals (E.g.: social fragmentation, participation exhaustion, economic leakage, etc.) which simultaneously, despite local Council and community efforts, hindered community well-being in the long term. The story of the Waimakariri District helps understand how resilience governance operates in practice where multi-scalar, non-linear, paradoxical, dynamic, and uncertain outcomes appear to be the norm that underpins the construction of equitable, transformative, and sustainable pathways towards the future.

BeckerFraserPhotos March 2012 photograph 151

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The food caravans that used to operate in the Arts Centre, now travel to several places in the city. Here they are in the quad at Canterbury University with the lunchtime queues".

BeckerFraserPhotos March 2011 photograph 160

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A collapsed section of the Cranmer Courts on the corner of Montreal Street and Kilmore Street. Safety fences have been erected around the building to prevent the public getting close enough to it to be endangered by falling masonry in the event of another earthquake.