An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 28 May 2012 entitled, "Perilous Palms?".
An aerial photograph of Sovereign Palms, a new housing development in Kaiapoi.
Road workers digging earth out of a drain on Shirley Road near KFC. In the distance, the Palms shopping centre can be seen.
A Phoenis Palm (Phoenix canariensis) that was in someone's back yard prior to the demolition of houses post the 2011 earthquake.
A photograph of Mark Jenkins, Manager of Westpac The Palms, taking part in #FiveYearsOn. Westpac The Palms was an All Right? Champion. Jenkins holds a sign which reads, "Five years on, I feel... Optimistic." All Right? posted the photograph on their Facebook Timeline on 21 February 2016 at 9:12am. All Right? captioned the photograph, "Mark from Westpac - The Palms is feeling optimistic! #fiveyears on #5yearson #allrightnz".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Damage at The Palms Shopping Centre".
Palm tree standing in the grounds of The Pump House. In front is a bin of corrugated iron.
A photograph of a sign on the side of the Palms mall reading, "Your home for shopping, back soon".
An aerial photograph of a residential area in Dallington.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Looking from Lichfield Street across cleared land to the Twisted Hop. The statue of the banana palm can be seen".
A map showing the location of proposed bus hubs.
An image featuring quotes from Henry Jaiswal (General Manager for Canterbury Migrants Centre Trust), Suzanne Lemon (Manager the Westpac Upper Riccarton) and Mark Jenkins (Manager for Westpac The Palms). The image reads, "Five years on I feel... Awesome! Henry Jaiswal, Christchurch Migrant Centre Trust. Tired, but hopeful. Suzanne Lemon, Upper Riccarton. Optimistic. Mark Jenkins, Westpac (The Palms)." All Right? uploaded the image as a Facebook cover photo on 1 March 2016 at 3:02pm.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "This stack of containers protect the facade of New Excelsior Backpackers. Corner of Manchester and Lichfield Streets".
A photograph of a section of a mural on the corner of Byron Street and Colombo Street. The section contains a palm tree. A horse is also partially visible. On the left there is the message, "Occupy love and light right here and now. We'll all meet up on Equality Street anyhow. Love light power." Below the message are a variety of hearts in red, white, and different shades of pink.
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.