A photograph of damaged buildings, captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Lichfield Street".
A photograph of an excavator parked on a demolition site on Hereford Street.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Rydges Hotel on Oxford Terrace".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The partially-demolished Hotel Grand Chancellor".
A photograph of wooden bracing on an earthquake-damaged building on Tuam Street.
A photograph of shipping containers supporting the facade of the Excelsior Hotel on Manchester Street.
A photograph of shipping containers supporting the facade of the Excelsior Hotel on Manchester Street.
A map showing the location of properties being purchased by the Crown for the frame and bus interchange.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Fissure on the banks of the River Avon near the site of the demolished Plunket House".
A photograph of Donovan Ryan (All Right?) in front of a wall of All Right? posters and holding a handful of All Right? flags. The posters and flags include simple messages beginning with, "It's All Right if..." or "It's All Right to...", which sought to normalise Cantabrians' various emotional responses to the earthquakes. Ryan and others distributed the flags at various locations around the city, enabling a 'flag hunt' for Cantabrians.
A PDF copy of pages 82-83 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Wonky Peterborough'. Photo: Reuben Woods
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Cupola from Our City, O-Tautahi (former Municipal Chambers), removed and braced on the ground outside".
The Christchurch City Council's plans to to help curb a rising homeless population has left some people who live rough worried. The council is considering funding the Christchurch City Mission to employ outreach workers for the first time since the Canterbury earthquakes, and police are increasing central city patrols. Christchurch reporter Logan Church has the story.
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.
A photograph of the Salvation Army building on Durham Street.
A photograph of the earthquake-damaged Christ Church Cathedral.
Warwick Isaacs is director of planning and transition for Civil Defence and as such has issued demolition orders for 128 buildings, 37 in the city. Gerry Brownlee has chosen the Government's 'demolition man' Warwick Isaacs to head the rebuild of central Christchurch. The buildings were damaged in the earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
A photograph of an earthquake-damaged brick building, with demolition equipment in the foreground.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Chancery Lane, looking south from Gloucester Street".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Colombo Street bridge over the Avon River".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Retrieved office material on the pavement of Hereford Street".
A photograph of an abandoned camera tripod and Buzzy Bee toy in Cathedral Square.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Provincial Council Chambers on Armagh Street".
A PDF copy of page 140 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The page documents the transitional project 'CCDU 100 Day Plan'.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The new Press building on Gloucester Street at dusk. The central city red zone now has office workers and lights on".
A graffiti paste-up of a digger on the side of a building in the central city. The artist has added a speech bubble reading, "Nom, nom".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The lights are on at the new Press building, the first office workers to return to the central city red zone".
A video of a media a preview of the CERA Red Zone bus tour. The Red Zone bus tours have been created by CERA to allow the public to view the Christchurch central city which has been closed for eight months since the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Protecting live music venues is taking on a new urgency in Christchurch, with the popular 12 Bar announcing it will close at the end of the month. With people flocking back to live in the central city after the earthquakes, there have been more complaints about noise from entertainment venues. But the local music scene says positive changes are in the works, so residents and live venues can live in harmony. Niva Chittock reports.
Damage to Christchurch city following the 22 February earthquake 2011. A car sits in a hole created by liquefaction on Ferry Road. Piles of silt can be seen around the car.