
Debris from demolished building on Welles Street, behind security fencing.
Debris from demolished building on Welles Street, behind security fencing.
A document which describes best practice for dewatering guidelines.
Digger and debris from a demolished building on Welles Street.
Digger and debris from a demolished building on Welles Street.
A photograph of street art on Welles Street. The artwork depicts flowers and birds. The artist is Flox.
A photograph of street art on Welles Street. Birds, animals and flowers are depicted on a green, plant-filled background. The artist is Flox.
A photograph of street art on Welles Street. The artwork depicts flowers and rabbits in shades of green. The artist is Flox.
A photograph of the installation, 'Cardencity', on the corner of Manchester and Welles Streets. The installation is a sign post with all signs pointing to parking spaces.
A photograph of the installation, 'Cardencity', on the corner of Manchester and Welles Streets. The installation is a sign post with all signs pointing to parking spaces.
A photograph of the installation, 'Cardencity', on the corner of Manchester and Welles Streets. The installation is a sign post with all signs pointing to parking spaces.
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 22 December 2014 entitled, "...a well-worn path...."The entry was downloaded on 3 November 2016.
Buckled curbing along Jones Street in Kaiapoi. A pile of liquefaction can be seen in the foreground as well as a few plastic pipes. A number of portaloos line the street in the distance as well as road cones.
A photograph of a cordon made from wire fencing, road cones and tape on the intersection of Manchester and Welles Streets. In the background, bricks from a earthquake-damaged building are piled on the footpath.
A photograph of a cordon made from wire fencing, road cones and tape on the intersection of Manchester and Welles Streets. In the background, bricks from a earthquake-damaged building are piled on the footpath.
A PDF copy of a image advertising All Right? personalised posters. The first image reads, "Make your own All Right Poster (and we'll post it to you for free!)" The second image reads, "Order online resources (and we'll send them out for free!)".
Damage to a house in Richmond. A brick chimney has visibly twisted and there are gaps between the bricks. The photographer comments, "Damaged chimney. We'll have to get this taken down tidily, but our roofer friends are a bit busy... (It was taken down on the morning of Day 2, just as well)".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Latimer Square. The buildings may not have withstood the earthquakes well, but the large trees of Latimer Square seem to have done rather better. Despite being inside the red zone for a number of months, Latimer Square looks as green and well-kept as ever".
The lived reality of the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes and its implications for the Waimakariri District, a small but rapidly growing district (third tier of government in New Zealand) north of Christchurch, can illustrate how community well-being, community resilience, and community capitals interrelate in practice generating paradoxical results out of what can otherwise be conceived as a textbook ‘best practice’ case of earthquake recovery. The Waimakariri District Council’s integrated community based recovery framework designed and implemented post-earthquakes in the District was built upon strong political, social, and moral capital elements such as: inter-institutional integration and communication, participation, local knowledge, and social justice. This approach enabled very positive community outputs such as artistic community interventions of the urban environment and communal food forests amongst others. Yet, interests responding to broader economic and political processes (continuous central government interventions, insurance and reinsurance processes, changing socio-cultural patterns) produced a significant loss of community capitals (E.g.: social fragmentation, participation exhaustion, economic leakage, etc.) which simultaneously, despite local Council and community efforts, hindered community well-being in the long term. The story of the Waimakariri District helps understand how resilience governance operates in practice where multi-scalar, non-linear, paradoxical, dynamic, and uncertain outcomes appear to be the norm that underpins the construction of equitable, transformative, and sustainable pathways towards the future.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Wooden buildings don't always fare well".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Wooden buildings don't always fare well".
Shops on Hills Road in Edgeware. The verandas on these store collapsed, bringing down the parapets as well.
Shops on Hills Road in Edgeware. The verandas on these store collapsed, bringing down the parapets as well.
Workers on a site in the central city with shipping containers around them, as well as piles of wood and rubble.
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Hereford Street. The pamphlets have worn remarkably well for five months in the elements".
A photograph of a plastic sheet covering a petrol pump at a petrol station on Pages Road. The cover reads, "Sorry not well today".
The exposed wall of a building on Colombo Street has been painted with a mural advertising Sedley Wells MusicWorks.
Welcome to the first Recover newsletter from the Marine Ecology Research Group (MERG) at the University of Canterbury. Recover is designed to keep you updated on our MBIE funded earthquake recovery project called RECOVER (Reef Ecology, Coastal Values & Ecosystem Recovery). This first issue provides a summary of some of the big changes we’ve seen. In the next issue we’ll be profiling some of the current research as well as ways you can get involved!
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Lift well of SBS Building, 180 Manchester Street, taken from Manchester Street".
Blade Runners Hair Design on Hills Road in Edgeware. The veranda collapsed during the 4 September earthquake, bringing down the parapet as well.