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Thumbnail of Whole House Reuse Item 278

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A thumbnail photograph of Whole House Reuse item 278, cropped for the catalogue. This item was salvaged from 19 Admiral Way in New Brighton as part of the Whole House Reuse project.

Photograph of Etch-A-Sketch 2012:10:20 21:19:04

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A photograph of people gathered in front of the temporary light installation titled Etch-A-Sketch.

Thumbnail of Whole House Reuse Item 299

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A thumbnail photograph of Whole House Reuse item 299, cropped for the catalogue. This item was salvaged from 19 Admiral Way in New Brighton as part of the Whole House Reuse project.

Photograph of LUXCITY 2012:10:20 22:44:16

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A photograph of a DJ next to the LUXCITY installation titled Kloud.

Thumbnail of Whole House Reuse Item 303

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A thumbnail photograph of Whole House Reuse item 303, cropped for the catalogue. This item was salvaged from 19 Admiral Way in New Brighton as part of the Whole House Reuse project.

Photograph of Whole House Reuse Item 299

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A photograph of Whole House Reuse item 299. This item was salvaged from 19 Admiral Way in New Brighton as part of the Whole House Reuse project.

Anamorphic Shadows Photograph 2013:10:27 21:24:11

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A photograph of an illuminated temporary sculpture titled Anamorphic Shadows on Worcester Street. The sculpture was created by students from Unitec, for FESTA's 2013 Canterbury Tales event.

Photograph of Whole House Reuse Item 303

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of Whole House Reuse item 303. This item was salvaged from 19 Admiral Way in New Brighton as part of the Whole House Reuse project.

Photograph of LUXCITY 2012:10:20 18:56:03

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A photograph of people on Gloucester Street during LUXCITY.

Upon the Upland Road Photograph 2

A photograph of the installation 'Upon the Upland Road' on the former site of the Harbour Light in Lyttelton. The installation shows the last three lines of James K Baxter's poem, 'High Country Weather', written in the nautical flag alphabet.

BeckerFraserPhotos July 2011 photograph 1369

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of a damaged traffic light on Manchester Street.

Photograph of Whole House Reuse Item 301

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of Whole House Reuse item 301. This item was salvaged from 19 Admiral Way in New Brighton as part of the Whole House Reuse project.

Thumbnail of Whole House Reuse Item 301

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A thumbnail photograph of Whole House Reuse item 301, cropped for the catalogue. This item was salvaged from 19 Admiral Way in New Brighton as part of the Whole House Reuse project.

Photograph of LUXCITY 2012:10:20 20:30:13

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A photograph of the LUXCITY installations Archrobatics (left) and Altitude on Manchester Street.

Measuring the Impact of Insurance on Urban Recovery with Light

Research papers, University of Canterbury Library

We measure the longer-term effect of a major earthquake on the local economy, using night-time light intensity measured from space, and investigate whether insurance claim payments for damaged residential property affected the local recovery process. We focus on the destructive Canterbury Earthquake Sequence (CES) 2010 -2011 as our case study. Uniquely for this event, more than 95% of residential housing units were covered by insurance, but insurance payments were staggered over 5 years, enabling us to identify their local impact. We find that night-time luminosity can capture the process of recovery and describe the recovery’s determinants. We also find that insurance payments contributed significantly to the process of economic recovery after the earthquake, but delayed payments were less affective and cash settlement of claims were more effective than insurance-managed repairs in contributing to local recovery.

Upon the Upland Road Photograph 1

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of the installation 'Upon the Upland Road' on the former site of the Harbour Light in Lyttelton. The installation shows the last three lines of James K Baxter's poem, 'High Country Weather', written in the nautical flag alphabet.