An aerial photograph of the Christchurch central city. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Brannigans building is in the centre of the photograph with Gloucester Street running through the middle of the photograph. The photograph shows the rear of the building".
A photograph of street art attached to a fence in the former site of a building on the corner of Bowhill Road and Marine Parade. The artwork has been created on a sheet of metal and depicts ChristChurch Cathedral.
A photograph of the photocopy template for the Christchurch City Council's green sticker. The sticker was used by the Civil Defence after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes to indicate that a building had been inspected and that 'no structural or other safety hazards' were found.
A photograph of the rubble from the Observatory tower in the South Quad of the Christchurch Arts Centre. The tower collapsed during the 22 February 2011 earthquake. A digger was used to clear the rubble away from the building. Scaffolding constructed around the tower has also collapsed and is amongst the rubble.
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Laura and Max return to Christchurch from their holiday in California and inspect the earthquake-caused sand volcano in their front lawn.
The magnitude 7.1 Christchurch earthquake broke off an enormous chunk of Castle Rock in the Port Hills which has tumbled down towards the Lyttelton tunnel. View from Morgan's Valley (-43.578037° 172.714828°).
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Post February 22 Earthquake Damage Corner Opawa Road and Aynsley Terrace, Opawa PWS-2011-03-09-DSC9944
Post February 22 Earthquake Damage Corner Opawa Road and Aynsley Terrace, Opawa PWS-2011-03-09-DSC9947
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.
A photograph of Re:START Mall
A photograph of Re:START Mall
A photograph of Re:START Mall
A photograph of Re:START Mall
A photograph of Re:START Mall
An aerial photograph looking north-east across the Christchurch CBD with Cathedral Square in the centre.
An aerial photograph looking north-west over the Christchurch CBD, with Latimer Square at centre right.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The east wall of the Christchurch Art Gallery, Worcester Street".
A photograph captioned by Paul Corliss, "Christchurch North Methodist Church, corner Harewood Road and Chapel Lane".