File reference: CCL-2012-02-19-IMG_0247 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.
A pdf transcript of Sara Green's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
A pdf transcript of Sara Green's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "37 Cannon Hill Crescent in Mt Pleasant. Most of Mt Pleasant is green zoned, but 800 homes will be demolished".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "3 Meadow Street, Kaiapoi. This side of the street is blue-green (Technical Category 3) and the opposite side is red zoned".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "29 Cannon Hill Crescent in Mt Pleasant".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "27 Cannon Hill Crescent in Mt Pleasant".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "2/29 Cannon Hill Crescent in Mt Pleasant".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The empty site where 31 Cannon Hill Crescent in Mt Pleasant used to be".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "34 Cannon Hill Crescent in Mt Pleasant".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "36 Cannon Hill Crescent in Mt Pleasant".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "27 Cannon Hill Crescent in Mt Pleasant".
A green 'hotel' on Gap Filler's Monopoly square.
Plant beds made out of corrugated iron, greening the empty building sites along Colombo Street. These were placed here by Greening the Rubble, a community project in Christchurch to create temporary public parks and gardens on the sites of demolished buildings.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "5 Meadow Street, Kaiapoi".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "7 Meadow Street, Kaiapoi".
A photograph of a sign about the Victoria Green public park.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gap Filler Chess set on Colombo Street, Sydenham".
A photograph of Wayne Youle's mural 'I Seem to Have Temporarily Misplaced My Sense of Humour' (2012). The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Art installation at an empty site on Colombo Street, Sydenham".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Gap Filler Chess set on Colombo Street, Sydenham".
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.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament on Barbadoes Street, missing its distinctive green domes".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Stagnant water in Waygreen Avenue leads to green algae in all the puddles".
Outdoor seating and the garden outside the Coffee Zone kiosk in Sydenham. This garden was a project supported by Greening the Rubble.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "17 Foster Terrace in Lyttelton. The land on this side of the street is green zoned".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "15 Foster Terrace in Lyttelton. The land on this side of the street is green zoned".
The garden and seating area outside the Coffee Zone shack on Colombo Street. This was put together by the Greening the Rubble community project.
A photograph of the east side of Colombo Street near Peterborough Street. On the corner, a green space has been set up on a vacant site.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "8 Meadow Street, Kaiapoi. This side of the street is red zoned, the opposite side blue-green (Technical Category 3)".
The seating and garden area outside the Coffee Zone shack on Colombo Street. This is a Gap Filler space and the garden has been put together by Greening the Rubble.