Fairfax Video, September 2010 (21)

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A video of a press conference with Mayor Bob Parker about an offer from the New Zealand Institute of Architecture to appoint an Architectural Ambassador for Christchurch. The proposed ambassador would head a team of architects and urban designers to prepare ideas for the Christchurch rebuild.

Northern Outlook Image: Laura Melville 2010:09:04 03:02:25

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage control. Urban Search and Rescue team members liaise with safety officers in front of Blackwells department store in Kaiapoi".

Christchurch Press Image: Giles Brown 2010:09:07 14:26:14

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Urban Search and Rescue worker Barry Smith, from the USAR taskforce, at the NZ Fire Service Training Centre, Woolston, which is temporary home for 80 USAR staff from the North Island".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:07 15:09:41

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Urban Search and Rescue workers remove the insides of the historic MLC building built in 1906 on the corner of Manchester/Hereford Streets. The seven storey building will be demolished as it is at risk of collapsing".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:07 15:22:27

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Urban Search and Rescue workers remove the insides of the historic MLC building built in 1906 on the corner of Manchester/Hereford Streets. The seven storey building will be demolished as it is at risk of collapsing".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:07 15:21:25

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Urban Search and Rescue workers remove the insides of the historic MLC building built in 1906 on the corner of Manchester/Hereford Streets. The seven storey building will be demolished as it is at risk of collapsing".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:07 15:22:18

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Urban Search and Rescue workers remove the insides of the historic MLC building built in 1906 on the corner of Manchester/Hereford Streets. The seven storey building will be demolished as it is at risk of collapsing".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:07 15:11:18

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Urban Search and Rescue workers remove the insides of the historic MLC building built in 1906 on the corner of Manchester/Hereford Streets. The seven storey building will be demolished as it is at risk of collapsing".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:07 15:11:34

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Urban Search and Rescue workers remove the insides of the historic MLC building built in 1906 on the corner of Manchester/Hereford Streets. The seven storey building will be demolished as it is at risk of collapsing".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:07 14:44:13

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Urban Search and Rescue workers remove the insides of the historic MLC building built in 1906 on the corner of Manchester/Hereford Streets. The seven storey building will be demolished as it is at risk of collapsing".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:07 14:35:11

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Urban Search and Rescue workers remove the insides of the historic MLC building built in 1906 on the corner of Manchester/Hereford Streets. The seven storey building will be demolished as it is at risk of collapsing".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:07 14:13:40

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Urban Search and Rescue workers remove the insides of the historic MLC building built in 1906 on the corner of Manchester/Hereford Streets. The seven storey building will be demolished as it is at risk of collapsing".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:07 15:21:17

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Urban Search and Rescue workers remove the insides of the historic MLC building built in 1906 on the corner of Manchester/Hereford Streets. The seven storey building will be demolished as it is at risk of collapsing".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:07 14:43:57

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Urban Search and Rescue workers remove the insides of the historic MLC building built in 1906 on the corner of Manchester/Hereford Streets. The seven storey building will be demolished as it is at risk of collapsing".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:07 14:30:02

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Urban Search and Rescue workers remove the insides of the historic MLC building built in 1906 on the corner of Manchester/Hereford Streets. The seven storey building will be demolished as it is at risk of collapsing".

Christchurch Press Image: Richard Cosgrove 2010:09:07 14:13:40

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Urban Search and Rescue workers remove the insides of the historic MLC building built in 1906 on the corner of Manchester and Hereford Streets. The seven-storey building will be demolished as it is at risk of collapsing".

From the city that rocks, observations from post-earthquake Christchurch N…

Research Papers, Lincoln University

At 4.35 a.m. on the 4th of September 2010 Christchurch residents were shaken awake by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake, the largest earthquake to hit urban New Zealand for nearly 80 years. It was a large earthquake. On average the world only has 17 earthquakes a year larger than magnitude seven. Haiti’s earthquake in January 2010 was magnitude 7.1 and Chile’s earthquake in February was magnitude 8.8. Although it was a big quake, Christchurch was lucky. In Haiti’s earthquake over 230,000 people were killed and in Chile 40,000 homes were destroyed. Happily this was not the situation in Christchurch, however the earthquake has caused considerable damage. The challenge for the Landscape Architecture community is to contribute to the city’s reconstruction in ways that will not only fix the problems of housing, and the city’s urban, suburban and neighbourhood fabric but that will do so in ways that will help solve the landscape problems that dogged the city before the earthquake struck.