Thinking Outside the Square Photograph 2

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A photograph of the 'Thinking Outside the Square' installation in the window of the Beggs Music building on Colombo Street.

Thinking Outside the Square Photograph 1

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A photograph of the 'Thinking Outside the Square' installation in the window of the Beggs Music building on Colombo Street.

Thinking Outside the Square Photograph 3

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A photograph of the 'Thinking Outside the Square' installation in the window of the Beggs Music building on Colombo Street.

Fairfax Video, May 2013 (7)

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A video about the Ministry of Education's decision to close Avondale Primary School. The video includes interviews with Principal Mark Scown and Julie Begg, the parent of a student at the school.

Dino-Sauna Photograph 4

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A photograph of a clay tablet reading, "Triseatasaurus by Andrew Lyons. On load from Ali Begg.

Christchurch Press Image: David Hallett 2010:11:04 08:12:20

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Marika Begg with the macrocarpa tree stumps in her garden that were chopped down after earthquake damage. Di Madgin story".

Christchurch Press Image: David Hallett 2010:11:04 08:11:55

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Marika Begg with the macrocarpa tree stumps in her garden that were chopped down after earthquake damage. Di Madgin story".

Poetica Urban Poetry Project Photograph 7

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A photograph of the Poetica Urban Poetry wall.

Poetica Urban Poetry Project Photograph 5

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A photograph of volunteers painting the Poetica Urban Poetry wall.

Poetica Urban Poetry Project Photograph 2

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A photograph of a woman reading poetry. She is standing in front of the Poetica Urban Poetry wall.

Poetica Urban Poetry Project Photograph 3

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A photograph of the Poetica Urban Poetry wall. Details of the opening event are chalked on the wall.

Poetica Urban Poetry Project Photograph 6

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A photograph of volunteers standing beside a fence made from wooden pallets, at the site of the Poetica Urban Poetry wall.

Poetica Urban Poetry Project Photograph 1

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A photograph of a woman reading poetry to an audience. She is standing in front of the Poetica Urban Poetry wall.

Poetica Urban Poetry Project Photograph 4

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A photograph of a woman applying filler to a concrete-block wall, in preparation for painting it to become the Poetica Urban Poetry wall.

Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV, pages 182-183: Poetica Urban Po…

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A PDF copy of pages 182-183 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Poetica Urban Poetry Project'. Photos: Gap Filler

Christchurch Press Image: Dean Kozanic 2010:09:10 (19)

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aftermath of the earthquake in Christchurch where the cleanup has begun. Marika Begg is faced with a $22,000 biil which she cannot afford to remove fallen macrocarpa trees on her property. Her insurance will not cover it".

Christchurch Press Image: Dean Kozanic 2010:09:10 (20)

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Aftermath of the earthquake in Christchurch where the cleanup has begun. Marika Begg is faced with a $22,000 biil which she cannot afford to remove fallen macrocarpa trees on her property. Her insurance will not cover it".

Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV, pages 348-349: Thinking Outside…

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A PDF copy of pages 348-349 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Thinking Outside the Square'. Photos: Gap Filler

Monitoring wellbeing during recovery from the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthqu…

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In this paper we outline the process and outcomes of a multi-agency, multi-sector research collaboration, led by the Canterbury Earthquake Research Authority (CERA). The CERA Wellbeing Survey (CWS) is a serial, cross-sectional survey that is to be repeated six-monthly (in April and September) until the end of the CERA Act, in April 2016. The survey gathers self-reported wellbeing data to supplement the monitoring of the social recovery undertaken through CERA's Canterbury Wellbeing Index. Thereby informing a range of relevant agency decision-making, the CWS was also intended to provide the community and other sectors with a broad indication of how the population is tracking in the recovery. The primary objective was to ensure that decision-making was appropriately informed, with the concurrent aim of compiling a robust dataset that is of value to future researchers, and to the wider, global hazard and disaster research endeavor. The paper begins with an outline of both the Canterbury earthquake sequence, and the research context informing this collaborative project, before reporting on the methodology and significant results to date. It concludes with a discussion of both the survey results, and the collaborative process through which it was developed.

Surface rupture displacement on the Greendale Fault during the Mw 7.1 Darf…

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Surface rupture of the previously unrecognised Greendale Fault extended west-east for ~30 km across alluvial plains west of Christchurch, New Zealand, during the Mw 7.1 Darfield (Canterbury) earthquake of September 2010. Surface rupture displacement was predominantly dextral strike-slip, averaging ~2.5 m, with maxima of ~5 m. Vertical displacement was generally less than 0.75 m. The surface rupture deformation zone ranged in width from ~30 to 300 m, and comprised discrete shears, localised bulges and, primarily, horizontal dextral flexure. About a dozen buildings, mainly single-storey houses and farm sheds, were affected by surface rupture, but none collapsed, largely because most of the buildings were relatively flexible and resilient timber-framed structures and also because deformation was distributed over a relatively wide zone. There were, however, notable differences in the respective performances of the buildings. Houses with only lightly-reinforced concrete slab foundations suffered moderate to severe structural and non-structural damage. Three other buildings performed more favourably: one had a robust concrete slab foundation, another had a shallow-seated pile foundation that isolated ground deformation from the superstructure, and the third had a structural system that enabled the house to tilt and rotate as a rigid body. Roads, power lines, underground pipes, and fences were also deformed by surface fault rupture and suffered damage commensurate with the type of feature, its orientation to the fault, and the amount, sense and width of surface rupture deformation.

Strike-slip ground-surface rupture (Greendale Fault) associated with the 4…

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This paper provides a photographic tour of the ground-surface rupture features of the Greendale Fault, formed during the 4th September 2010 Darfield Earthquake. The fault, previously unknown, produced at least 29.5 km of strike-slip surface deformation of right-lateral (dextral) sense. Deformation, spread over a zone between 30 and 300 m wide, consisted mostly of horizontal flexure with subsidiary discrete shears, the latter only prominent where overall displacement across the zone exceeded about 1.5 m. A remarkable feature of this event was its location in an intensively farmed landscape, where a multitude of straight markers, such as fences, roads and ditches, allowed precise measurements of offsets, and permitted well-defined limits to be placed on the length and widths of the surface rupture deformation.