Christchurch - Earthquake Rebuild - Temporary CBD Christchurch City CBD Cashel Street Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand © 2011 Phil Le Cren Photo Taken With: Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF/EF-S lenses + 10.1 effective megapixels + 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor + Eye-level pentamirror SLR + Live View shooting. + EOS Built-in Sensor...
Christchurch - Earthquake Rebuild - Temporary CBD Christchurch City CBD Cashel Street Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand © 2011 Phil Le Cren Photo Taken With: Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF/EF-S lenses + 10.1 effective megapixels + 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor + Eye-level pentamirror SLR + Live View shooting. + EOS Built-in Sensor...
Christchurch - Earthquake Rebuild - Temporary CBD Christchurch City CBD Cashel Street Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand © 2011 Phil Le Cren Photo Taken With: Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF/EF-S lenses + 10.1 effective megapixels + 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor + Eye-level pentamirror SLR + Live View shooting. + EOS Built-in Sensor...
Christchurch - Earthquake Rebuild - Temporary CBD Christchurch City CBD Cashel Street Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand © 2011 Phil Le Cren Photo Taken With: Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF/EF-S lenses + 10.1 effective megapixels + 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor + Eye-level pentamirror SLR + Live View shooting. + EOS Built-in Sensor...
Christchurch - Earthquake Rebuild - Temporary CBD Christchurch City CBD Cashel Street Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand © 2011 Phil Le Cren Photo Taken With: Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF/EF-S lenses + 10.1 effective megapixels + 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor + Eye-level pentamirror SLR + Live View shooting. + EOS Built-in Sensor...
Christchurch - Earthquake Rebuild - Temporary CBD Christchurch City CBD Cashel Street Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand © 2011 Phil Le Cren Photo Taken With: Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF/EF-S lenses + 10.1 effective megapixels + 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor + Eye-level pentamirror SLR + Live View shooting. + EOS Built-in Sensor...
An aerial photograph looking west over the Christchurch CBD from Madras Street.
An aerial photograph looking north-west over the Christchurch CBD.
An aerial photograph of the Christchurch CBD looking north along Colombo Street.
An aerial photograph of the Christchurch CBD looking north along Madras Street.
An aerial photograph looking west over the CBD centred on Worcester Street.
An aerial photograph looking north-west over the Christchurch CBD.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The CBD skyline from the Cashmere Hills".
An aerial photograph looking west over the Christchurch CBD, towards Hagley Park.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The CBD skyline from the Cashmere Hills".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Skyline of the CBD from Cashmere Hills".
Organisations locate strategically within Business Districts (CBDs) in order to cultivate their image, increase their profile, and improve access to customers, suppliers, and services. While CBDs offer an economic benefit to organisations, they also present a unique set of hazard vulnerabilities and planning challenges for businesses. As of May 2012, the Christchurch CBD has been partially cordoned off for over 14 months. Economic activity within the cordoned CBD, which previously contained 6,000 businesses and over 51,000 workers, has been significantly diminished and organisations have been forced to find new ways of operating. The vulnerabilities and resilience of CBDs not only influences outcomes for CBD organisations, but also the broader interconnected (urban/regional/national) system. A CBD is a hub of economic, social, and built infrastructure within a network of links and nodes. When the hub is disrupted all of the people, objects, and transactions that usually flow into and out of the hub must be redirected elsewhere. In an urban situation this means traffic jams in peripheries of the city, increased prices of commercial property, and capital flight; all of which are currently being faced in Canterbury. This report presents the lessons learned from organisations in CBDs affected by the Canterbury earthquakes. Here we focus on the Christchurch CBD; however, several urban town centres were extensively disrupted by the earthquakes. The statistics and discussion presented in this report are based on the results of an ongoing study conducted by Resilient Organisations (www.resorgs.org.nz). The data was captured using two questionnaire surveys of Canterbury organisations (issued November 2010 and May 2011), interviews with key informants, and in-depth case studies of organisations. Several industry sectors were sampled, and geographic samples of organisations in the Christchurch CBD, Lyttelton, and the Kaiapoi town centre were also collected. Results in this report describing “non-CBD organisations” refer to all organisations outside of the Christchurch CBD, Lyttelton, and Kaiapoi town centres.
An aerial photograph looking north-east across the Christchurch CBD with Cathedral Square in the centre.
An aerial photograph looking north-west over the Christchurch CBD, with Latimer Square at centre right.
An aerial photograph of the Christchurch CBD looking north-west from Fitzgerald Avenue.
An aerial photograph of the Christchurch CBD looking north-west from Fitzgerald Avenue.
An aerial photograph of the Christchurch CBD looking north-west from Fitzgerald Avenue.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking east towards the CBD over Hagley Park".
Photo of damage in Christchurch CBD, taken by Compliance Enforcement.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The CBD skyline from the Cashmere Hills".
An aerial photograph looking north-west over the Christchurch CBD with Madras and Barbadoes Streets across the bottom.
An aerial photograph of the Christchurch CBD looking west down Moorhouse Avenue.
An aerial photograph of an industrial area on the outskirts of the Christchurch CBD.
Photo of damage in Christchurch CBD, taken by Compliance Enforcement.
Photo of damage in Christchurch CBD, taken by Compliance Enforcement.