A presentation by Dr Deirdre Hart (Department of Geography) on "Making Coastal Cities Resilient: Lessons from Christchurch" as part of the 2012 Earthquake Forums held at the University of Canterbury.
A presentation by Dr Deirdre Hart (Department of Geography) on "Making Coastal Cities Resilient: Lessons from Christchurch" as part of the 2012 Earthquake Forums held at the University of Canterbury.
The objective of this project is to collect perishable seismic response data from the baseisolated Christchurch Women's Hospital. The strong and continuing sequence of aftershocks presents a unique opportunity to capture high-fidelity data from a modern base-isolated facility. These measurements will provide quantitative information required to assess the mechanisms at play in this and in many other seismically-isolated structures.
The topic of ‘resilience’ thinking seems of late to have superseded that of ‘sustainability’ thinking. Sustainability means simply that which sustains and lasts but has taken on many different subtle nuances over the last 20 years since it came into common parlance with the Bruntland Report of 1987, which sought to clarify the definition. However, resilience ‘speak’ has become hot property now, especially highlighted since Christchurch experienced a natural disaster in the form of several large earthquakes from Sep 2010 until most recently in December 2011. Many people comment on how resilient people have been, how resilient the city has been, so it seems timely to investigate what resilience actually means and importantly, resilient to what and of what? (Lorenz, 2010). This essay will look at the concept of systems and resilience, definitions and theories will be explored generally and then these concepts will be more closely defined within the context of a particular system, that of Somerfield School located in the western suburbs of Christchurch.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "View of ChristChurch Cathedral from Colombo Street".
An entry from Sue Davidson's blog for 14 October 2012 entitled, "Dora heads to Christchurch".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Christchurch Club, Worcester Street".
File reference: CCL-2012-02-22-IMG_1180 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
File reference: CCL-2012-02-22-IMG_1192 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
File reference: CCL-2012-02-22-IMG_1177 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Demolition work on Brannigans building, Gloucester Street. File reference: CCL-2012-02-07-IMG_9200 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
1 June 2012. File reference: CCL-2012-06-01-IMG_3284 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Demolition work on Brannigans building, Gloucester Street. File reference: CCL-2012-02-07-IMG_9204 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Demolition work on Brannigans building, Gloucester Street. File reference: CCL-2012-02-07--IMG_9194 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
1 June 2012. File reference: CCL-2012-06-01-IMG_3285 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
File reference: CCL-2012-02-22-IMG_1176 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Demolition work on Brannigans building, Gloucester Street. File reference: CCL-2012-02-07-MG_9201 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Demolition work on Brannigans building, Gloucester Street. File reference: CCL-2012-02-07-IMG_9203 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Demolition work on Brannigans building, Gloucester Street. File reference: CCL-2012-02-07IMG_9207 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Demolition work on Brannigans building, Gloucester Street. File reference: CCL-2012-02-07IMG_9202 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Demolition work on Brannigans building, Gloucester Street. File reference: CCL-2012-02-07-IMG_9198 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
1 June 2012. File reference: CCL-2012-06-01-IMG_3286 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Demolition work on Brannigans building, Gloucester Street. File reference: CCL-2012-02-07IMG_9197 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
File reference: CCL-2012-02-22-IMG_1193 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Demolition work on Brannigans building, Gloucester Street. File reference: CCL-2012-02-07-IMG_9211 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Demolition work on Brannigans building, Gloucester Street. File reference: CCL-2012-02-07-IMG_9208 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Demolition work on Brannigans building, Gloucester Street. File reference: CCL-2012-02-07-IMG_9196 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Demolition work on Brannigans building, Gloucester Street. File reference: CCL-2012-02-07-IMG_9215 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
Demolition work on Brannigans building, Gloucester Street. File reference: CCL-2012-02-07-IMG_9195 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
1 June 2012. File reference: CCL-2012-06-01-IMG_3283 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.