Lions roar back into the city centre
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
A web story about the return of the stone lions to the Memorial Arch.
A web story about the return of the stone lions to the Memorial Arch.
There is a now a rich literature on the connections between digital media, networked computing, and the shaping of urban material cultures. Much less has addressed the post-disaster context, like we face in Christchurch, where it is more a case of re-build rather than re-new. In what follows I suggest that Lev Manovich’s well-known distinction between narrative and database as distinct but related cultural forms is a useful framework for thinking about the Christchurch rebuild, and perhaps urbanism more generally.