The damaged Peterborough Centre, surrounded by fences. Stacked shipping containers act as a retaining wall.
An aerial photograph looking north over the Christchurch central city from Moorhouse Avenue centred on Manchester Street.
An aerial photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Riccarton Mall (lower left) and Hagley Park (centre)".
A sign on the cordon fence surrounding the Arts Centre points to open tourist attractions.
A photograph of excavators demolishing the Christchurch Convention Centre. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Peterborough Street".
Cones marking a crack in the centre of a street in Avonside after the September 4th earthquake.
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Trade Union Centre building, corner of Madras and Armagh Streets".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Trade Union Centre building, corner of Madras and Armagh Streets".
A photograph of the partially-demolished Christchurch Convention Centre. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Peterborough Street".
A photograph of excavators demolishing the Christchurch Convention Centre. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Peterborough Street".
A photograph of the partially-demolished Christchurch Convention Centre. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Peterborough Street".
A photograph of the partially-demolished Christchurch Convention Centre. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Peterborough Street".
A photograph of excavators demolishing the Christchurch Convention Centre. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Peterborough Street".
A photograph of excavators demolishing the Christchurch Convention Centre. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Peterborough Street".
A photograph of excavators demolishing the Christchurch Convention Centre. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Peterborough Street".
An aerial photograph looking north over the Christchurch CBD, Cathedral Square in the centre left.
A photograph of excavators demolishing the Christchurch Convention Centre. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Peterborough Street".
A photograph of a sign outside Knox Church, reading, "Yes... We're open at the Knox Centre".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Sink hole in Kilmore Street just outside the Convention Centre".
A photograph of excavators demolishing the Christchurch Convention Centre. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Peterborough Street".
A photograph of excavators demolishing the Christchurch Convention Centre. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "Peterborough Street".
A photograph of a sign outside Knox Church, reading, "Yes... We're open at the Knox Centre".
The clock tower at the Arts Centre supported by steel and wooden bracing to prevent further damage.
A video of a presentation by Dr Scott Miles during the Community Resilience Stream of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "A Community Wellbeing Centric Approach to Disaster Resilience".The abstract for this presentation reads as follows: A higher bar for advancing community disaster resilience can be set by conducting research and developing capacity-building initiatives that are based on understanding and monitoring community wellbeing. This presentation jumps off from this view, arguing that wellbeing is the most important concept for improving the disaster resilience of communities. The presentation uses examples from the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes to illustrate the need and effectiveness of a wellbeing-centric approach. While wellbeing has been integrated in the Canterbury recovery process, community wellbeing and resilience need to guide research and planning. The presentation unpacks wellbeing in order to synthesize it with other concepts that are relevant to community disaster resilience. Conceptualizing wellbeing as either the opportunity for or achievement of affiliation, autonomy, health, material needs, satisfaction, and security is common and relatively accepted across non-disaster fields. These six variables can be systematically linked to fundamental elements of resilience. The wellbeing variables are subject to potential loss, recovery, and adaptation based on the empirically established ties to community identity, such as sense of place. Variables of community identity are what translate the disruption, damage, restoration, reconstruction, and reconfiguration of a community's different critical services and capital resources to different states of wellbeing across a community that has been impacted by a hazard event. With reference to empirical research and the Canterbury case study, the presentation integrates these insights into a robust framework to facilitate meeting the challenge of raising the standard of community disaster resilience research and capacity building through development of wellbeing-centric approaches.
An aerial photograph of a residential area in Kaiapoi, Kaiapoi North School in the centre.
An aerial photograph looking west over Cathedral Square, with Christ Church Cathedral in the centre.
An aerial photograph looking east over Cathedral Square with Christ Church Cathedral in the centre.
An aerial photograph looking west over Cathedral Square with the Christchurch Cathedral in the centre.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cambridge Terrace, central city and Band Rotunda (centre left)".
An aerial photograph of a residential area in Burwood with Donnell Park near the centre.