A bus tours a city street with destroyed schools either side. The guide points out destruction on the right from earthquakes and on the left from Hekia Parata. Wider context is the ongoing impact of the Christchurch February 2011 earthquake. The implication is that the earthquake caused physical damage to some schools and that the Minister for Education is responsible for destroying others with her announcement of school closures in Christchurch on 18 February 2013.
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Christchurch may become the most documented earthquake in history; The Teachers Council; Newspaper readership and circulation.
An electronic copy of the February 2013 edition of the Diamond Harbour Herald.
An electronic copy of the October 2013 edition of the Diamond Harbour Herald.
An electronic copy of the November 2013 edition of the Diamond Harbour Herald.
An electronic copy of the May 2013 edition of the Diamond Harbour Herald.
An electronic copy of the February 2014 edition of the Diamond Harbour Herald.
An electronic copy of the August 2013 edition of the Diamond Harbour Herald.
An electronic copy of the July 2013 edition of the Diamond Harbour Herald.
An electronic copy of the April 2013 edition of the Diamond Harbour Herald.
An electronic copy of the September 2013 edition of the Diamond Harbour Herald.
An electronic copy of the March 2013 edition of the Diamond Harbour Herald.
An electronic copy of the June 2013 edition of the Diamond Harbour Herald.
An electronic copy of the December 2013 edition of the Diamond Harbour Herald.
An abandoned cafe located in the Pavilion building on Cashel Street. Magazines and newspapers are laid out on the counter and the reflection of Les Mills Gym can be seen in the window.
An abandoned cafe located in the Pavilion building on Cashel Street. A dead plant, magazines, and newspapers are laid out on the counter and the reflection of Les Mills Gym car park can be seen in the window.
Earthquakes rupture not only the objective realm of the physical landscape, but also the subjective landscape of emotions. Using the concepts of topophilia and topophobia developed by Yi-Fu Tuan as theories of love and fear of place, this paper investigates the impact of
Christchurch’s earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 on relationships with the city’s landscape.
Published accounts of the earthquakes in newspapers from around New Zealand are examined for evidence of how people responded to the situation, in particular their shifting relationship with familiar landscapes. The reports illustrate how residents and visitors reacted to the actual
and perceived changes to their surroundings, grappling with how a familiar place had become alien and often startling. The extreme nature of the event and the death toll of 185 heightened perceptions of the landscape, and even the most taken-for-granted elements of the landscape became amplified in significance. Enhanced understanding of the landscape of emotions is a vital component of wellbeing. Through recognising that the impact of disasters and perceived threats to familiar places has a profound emotional effect, the significance of sense of place to wellbeing can be appreciated.
