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A woman selling windmills and balloons at the Canterbury A&P Show.

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A stall at the Pallet Pavilion's vintage market selling headbands and jewellery.

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Shipping container shop in Sumner selling high quality furniture".

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Shipping container shop in Sumner selling high quality furniture".

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The Crepe Makers, a stall selling crepes outside Gap Filler's temporary cinema, 'The Night Club'.

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A baker selling breads and elderflower cordial from a stall in the Re:Start mall.

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A stall selling fruit at Gap Filler's Fun Fair in Addington. A recipe for 'Simple Jelly' has been taped to a basket of quinces.

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A man selling seafood from a caravan near the Carlton Country Club at Papanui Road in Merivale".

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A stall at the Pallet Pavillion's vintage market. The stall owner has used the gaps between the pallets as shelving for the shoes she is selling.

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A Salvation Army volunteer selling warm, recycled clothing to audience members at Gap Filler's "Film in the Gap!" project. Beside her, a visitor tries on a pair of gloves.

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A photograph of a stall selling handmade accessories at a market in Cathedral Square. The market is part of Canterbury Tales - a carnivalesque procession and the main event of FESTA 2013.

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Gap Filler Creative Director, Coralie Winn, at Gap Filler's "Film in the Gap!" project in Beckenham. The red Southern Espresso Rescue van can be seen in the background, selling coffee to the audience.

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A photograph of a trailor selling food in Cathedral Square. The photograph has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "This recognises how many demolition and other workers are working inside the cordon now".

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Gap Filler Creative Director, Coralie Winn, at Gap Filler's "Film in the Gap!" project in Beckenham. The red Southern Espresso Rescue van can be seen in the background, selling coffee to the audience.

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A photograph of a truck selling food in Cathedral Square. The photograph has been captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "This recognises how many demolition and other workers are working inside the cordon now".

The Decision-Making Behaviour of Property Owners (Investors and Developers…

Research papers, The University of Auckland Library

This study is a qualitative investigation into the decision-making behaviour of commercial property owners (investors and developers) who are rebuilding in a city centre after a major disaster. In 2010/2011, Christchurch, the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, was a site of numerous earthquakes. The stronger earthquakes destroyed many buildings and public infrastructure in the commercial inner city. As a result, affected property owners lost all or most of their buildings, a significant proportion of which were old and in the last phase of their life span. They had to negotiate pay-outs with insurance companies and decide, once paid out, whether they should rebuild in Christchurch or sell up and invest elsewhere. The clear majority of those who decided to reinvest in and rebuild the city are ‘locals’, almost all of whom had no prior experience of property development. Thus, in a post-disaster environment, most of these property owners have transitioned from being just being passive investors to active property developers. Their experience was interpreted using primary data gathered from in-depth and semi-structured interviews with twenty-one “informed property people” who included commercial property owners; property agents or consultants; representatives of public-sector agencies and financial institutions. The study findings showed that the decision-making behaviour of property investors and developers rebuilding after a major disaster did not necessarily follow a strict financial or profit motive as prescribed in the mainstream or neo-classical economics property literature. Rather, their decision-making behaviour has been largely shaped by emotional connections and external factors associated with their immediate environment. The theoretical proposition emerging from this study is that after a major disaster, local urban property owners are faced with two choices “to stay” or “to go”. Those who decide to stay and rebuild are typically very committed individuals who have a feeling of ownership, belonging and attachment to the city in which they live and work. These are people who will often take the lead in commercial property development, proactively making decisions and seeking positive investment outcomes for themselves which in turn result in revitalised commercial urban precincts.