A video of a press conference with Gerry Brownlee announcing a CERA review which will change the zoning of 270 Port Hills properties. Brownlee announces that 247 properties will change from green zoned to red zoned and 33 properties will change from red zoned to green zoned. The properties that have been rezoned red have an unacceptable level of life risk from cliff collapse and the potential of debris inundation.
A photograph of a snow sculpture in the Coffee Zone mini-park on Colombo Street.
A photograph of a garden area on Colombo Street.
A photograph of a garden area on Colombo Street.
A photograph of a garden area and coffee kiosk on Colombo Street.
A photograph of volunteers creating a garden area on Colombo Street.
A photograph of a garden area and coffee kiosk on Colombo Street.
A photograph of a garden area and coffee kiosk on Colombo Street.
A photograph of a garden area on Colombo Street.
A photograph of a garden area and coffee kiosk on Colombo Street.
A map showing the location of green-zoned homes in the otherwise red-zoned Stour Drive.
A video of interviews with three residents about their Port Hills properties. The video was filmed the day after Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee announced the red-zoning of 285 Port Hills properties. The video includes an interview with Marine Kent (whose house was zoned white to green), Mark Tranter (whose house was zoned white to red), and Tony Ging (whose house is still white-zoned).
A video of Dallington resident Christine Mathieson being told that her orange-zoned property has been rezoned as green. The rezoning was confirmed earlier in the day by Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee, who announced that 400 earthquake-damaged properties in Christchurch will be bought by the government. Mathieson's house is not one of them.
A graph showing changes in green-zoned property prices.
A map showing Green and White Zones on Banks Peninsula.
A map showing Green, Orange, Red, and White Zones in Christchurch.
A map showing Green, Orange, Red, and White Zones in Kaiapoi.
An infographic describing the new sub-categories for Green-Zoned properties.
A map showing Green, Orange, Red, and White Zones in Kaiapoi.
A map showing newly Green-Zoned properties in the Port Hills.
A page banner promoting an article titled, "Green light in red zone".
A PDF copy of pages 300-301 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The pages document the transitional project 'Coffee Zone Mini Park'. Photos with permission from Greening the Rubble
It is well established that urban green areas provide a wide range of social, aesthetic, environmental and economic benefits. The importance of urban green spaces has been known for decades; however the relationship between urban livability and green areas, as incorporated in overall urban green structure, has become the focus of international studies during the last 10 to 15 years. The spatial structure of green space systems has important consequences for urban form; configuring urban resources, controlling urban size, improving ecological quality of urban areas and preventing or mitigating natural disasters. However, in the field of architecture or urban design, very little work has been done to investigate the potential for built form to define and differentiate the edge to a green corridor ... This thesis therefore poses the hypothesis that architecture and urban design critically mediate between city and green corridor, through intensification and definition of the built edge, as a means of contributing to an ecological city form.
A graph showing the result of a poll of satisfaction among Red and Green Zone residents.
A photograph of the house at 58 Bangor Street. A green sticker on the door indicates that it has been inspected and is safe to enter.
A photograph of the house at 58 Bangor Street. A green sticker on the door indicates that it has been inspected and is safe to enter.
The Coffee Zone garden beside the Coffee kiosk on Colombo Street. The garden was a project supported by Greening the Rubble.
A graph showing the result of a survey by the TC3 Residents Group of residents in the green-blue zone.
Cascade of hanging baskets outside the Coffee Zone kiosk. The kiosk shares a garden with a project initiated by Greening the Rubble.
A photograph of Donna Allfrey's house at 406 Oxford Terrace. A green sticker on the front door indicates that the house has been inspected and it is safe to enter.