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Two people walk through a shelter made from shipping containers which protects part of the footpath on Colombo Street.

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0493

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A photograph showing demolition work proceeding behind the fences on High Street while people in high-vis walk past.

Waikato Times Image: Chris Hillock 2010:09:17 18:59:27

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Police changing shift from the square walk back to the main police station down Hereford Street".

BeckerFraserPhotos May 2013 photograph 153

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Scarborough Hill and Sumner Beach with people enjoying a walk along the promenade".

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UC CEISMIC team members Han Li, Lucy-Jane Walsh and Chris Thomson walk along the cordon fence on Oxford Terrace.

Soon be Gone

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

Demolition underway on a walk around the city to catch up on events happening June 25, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand.

Getting Smaller

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Demolition underway on the old Government Life building on a walk around the city September 7, 2014 Christchurch New Zealand.

22 February Earthquake - Photograph 63

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A woman walks through liquefaction in Hendon Street in St Albans. The photographer comments, "Hendon St, St Albans, is very heavily silted".

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Members of the UC CEISMIC team, Lucy-Jane Walsh and Han Li, walk down the newly re-opened New Regent Street.

All Right? Audiences: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Photogr…

A photograph of participants in the walk to celebrate Chinese National Day and the Moon Festival. In the foreground, there are two performers doing a lion dance. The walk was held at the Upper Riccarton Library in September 2015. It was organised by the Canterbury Migrants Centre (formerly the Christchurch Migrants Centre) and was part of the Christchurch City Council's Walking Festival.

Urban comfort in a future compact city: Analysis of open-space qualities i…

Research Papers, Lincoln University

The increase in urban population has required cities to rethink their strategies for minimising greenhouse gas impacts and adapting to climate change. While urban design and planning policy have been guided by principles such as walkability (to reduce the dependence on cars) and green infrastructure (to enhance the quality of open spaces to support conservation and human values), there have been conflicting views on what spatial strategies will best prepare cities for a challenging future. Researchers supporting compact cities based upon public Transit Oriented Development have claimed that walkability, higher density and mixed-uses make cities more sustainable (Owen, 2009) and that, while green spaces in cities are necessary, they are dull in comparison with shopfronts and street vendors (Speck, 2012, p 250). Other researchers claim that green infrastructure is fundamental to improving urban sustainability and attracting public space users with improved urban comfort, consequently encouraging walkability (Pitman and Ely, 2013). Landscape architects tend to assume that ‘the greener the better’; however, the efficiency of urban greenery in relation to urban comfort and urbanity depends on its density, distribution and the services provided. Green infrastructure can take many forms (from urban forests to street trees) and provide varied services (amended microclimate, aesthetics, ecology and so forth). In this paper, we evaluate the relevance of current policy in Christchurch regarding both best practice in green infrastructure and urban comfort (Tavares, 2015). We focus on the Christchurch Blueprint for rebuilding the central city, and critically examine the post-earthquake paths the city is following regarding its green and grey infrastructures and the resulting urban environment. We discuss the performance and appropriateness of the current Blueprint in post-earthquake Christchurch, particularly as it relates to the challenges that climate change is creating for cities worldwide.