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A banner for Ellerslie Internation Flower Show on the fence around the event,

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A large banner advertising Pace Project Management hangs on the side of a cordoned-off building on Hereford Street.

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Shoppers and sightseers in Re:Start Mall. Street lights have been decorated with banners with Canterbury colours, red and black.

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A photograph of banners hung from a rotary washing line, advertising the opening night of Gap Filler's Dance-O-Mat.

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Demolition site in the CBD. The cordon fence is covered with banners and signs informing customer regarding businesses post-earthquake status.

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Banners set for the Sumner village fair on the fence surrounding the library, closed since February 2011".

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A Gap Filler banner on a fence around the community Book Exchange, a Gap Filler project at the corner of Kilmore and Barbadoes Streets.

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Re:Start mall decorated with flowers, and street lights with red and black banners. In the background is a Wilson's carpark where a building use to be.

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View down Re:Start mall, an elephant grass sculpture presented by the Christchurch Garden City Trust and street lights with banners in the Canterbury colour, red and black.

Greening the rubble in Christchurch: Civic ecological reclamation efforts …

Research Papers, Lincoln University

Within four weeks of the September 4 2010 Canterbury Earthquake a new, loosely-knit community group appeared in Christchurch under the banner of “Greening the Rubble.” The general aim of those who attended the first few meetings was to do something to help plug the holes that had already appeared or were likely to appear over the coming weeks in the city fabric with some temporary landscaping and planting projects. This article charts the first eighteen months of Greening the Rubble and places the initiative in a broader context to argue that although seismic events in Christchurch acted as a “call to palms,” so to speak, the city was already in need of some remedial greening. It concludes with a reflection on lessons learned to date by GTR and commentary on the likely issues ahead for this new mini-social-environmental movement in the context of a quake-affected and still quake-prone major New Zealand city. One of the key lessons for GTR and all of those involved in Christchurch recovery activities to date is that the city is still very much in the middle of the event and is to some extent a laboratory for seismic and agency management studies alike.