Passing time

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

File reference: CCL-2012-02-22-IMG_9700 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.

BeckerFraserPhotos June 2012 photograph 639

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "McDonalds and TimeZone on Colombo Street".

Jennifer Middendorf's Blog 19/03/2012: Time to catch up

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 19 March 2012 entitled, "Time to catch up".

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (4)

Images, UC QuakeStudies

The Brooklands Community Hall with the UC QuakeBox parked in the car park. A sign with the opening time has been placed on the other side of the road.

BeckerFraserPhotos April 2012 photograph 267

Images, UC QuakeStudies

The Pacific Tower building on Gloucester Street, with repairs to cracks visible down one side. Constructed in 2010, the Pacific Tower was at the time the tallest building in Christchurch.

BeckerFraserPhotos May 2012 photograph 110

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "the Edmonds Clock Tower heavily braced. (time stopped at 12:51, the moment of the Feb 22, 2011 earthquake) (the tower has subsequently been partly deconstructed for repair )".

Bike Ride in the East Side - Photograph 60

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A sewage pumping station on Avonside Drive near the intersection with Robson Avenue has been lifted out of the ground by liquefaction. The photographer comments, "A Sunday afternoon ride to New Brighton, then back via Aranui, Wainoni, Dallington, and Richmond. Not a cheerful experience. Pumping station. Another hydraulically-lifted sewage pumping station, this time on Avonside Drive".

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0045

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "This photo epitomises aspects of many homes in the residential red zone. A home that used to be lovely once upon a time, and now is just a broken house, with indicators of the care once lavished upon it by the family that owned it in the rose bush still flowering by the door. Seabreeze Close, Bexley".

BeckerFraserPhotos March 2012 photograph 189

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The view from the top of Alice in Videoland towards Poplar Lane, showing how little is left there. Twisted Hop had a 'make safe' status at the time of this picture, now changed to demolish".

Post-disaster landscapes

Research Papers, Lincoln University

Disasters are a critical topic for practitioners of landscape architecture. A fundamental role of the profession is disaster prevention or mitigation through practitioners having a thorough understanding of known threats. Once we reach the ‘other side’ of a disaster – the aftermath – landscape architecture plays a central response in dealing with its consequences, rebuilding of settlements and infrastructure and gaining an enhanced understanding of the causes of any failures. Landscape architecture must respond not only to the physical dimensions of disaster landscapes but also to the social, psychological and spiritual aspects. Landscape’s experiential potency is heightened in disasters in ways that may challenge and extend the spectrum of emotions. Identity is rooted in landscape, and massive transformation through the impact of a disaster can lead to ongoing psychological devastation. Memory and landscape are tightly intertwined as part of individual and collective identities, as connections to place and time. The ruptures caused by disasters present a challenge to remembering the lives lost and the prior condition of the landscape, the intimate attachments to places now gone and even the event itself.