Welles Street demolition

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Monday 10 December 2012. File reference: CCL-2012-12-10- IMG_1112 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.

Welles Street demolition

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Monday 10 December 2012. File reference: CCL-2012-12-10-IMG_1113 From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries.

BeckerFraserPhotos April 2012 photograph 202

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Demolition along Kilmore Street. A digger can be seen as well as a construction worker with a high hat and high-visibility vest. The rubble has been separated into different piles.

BeckerFraserPhotos March 2012 photograph 270

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The Craig's Investment Partners House looking very dirty after forteen months without the glass being cleaned as well as demolitions happening around it".

BeckerFraserPhotos April 2012 photograph 200

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A digger being used to clear the rubble from the Convention Centre on Peterborough Street. In the background, the Town Hall can be seen, as well as the Forsyth Barr building.

BeckerFraserPhotos April 2012 photograph 203

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Piles of rubble along Kilmore Street. A digger can be seen in the background as well as a construction worker in a hard hat and high-visibility vest. The rubble has been separated into different piles.

Bettina Evans's photograph 97

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The completed memorial blanket. This blanket was created by members of the Lyttelton community, with the iconic felt hearts that were created after the earthquake as well as depictions of some of the buildings lost during the earthquake in Lytteton.

Bettina Evans's photograph 96

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The completed memorial blanket. This blanket was created by members of the Lyttelton community, with the iconic felt hearts that were created after the earthquake as well as depictions of some of the buildings lost during the earthquake in Lytteton.

Elizabeth Ackermann Photograph 335

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A photograph of members of the public walking along Gloucester Street near the Colombo Street intersection. In the background, the site of the demolished Farmers Building can be seen as well as the car park to the left.

BeckerFraserPhotos March 2012 photograph 165

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The organ in St Bartholomew's Anglican Church in Kaiapoi, the oldest surviving church in Canterbury. The organ has survived the earthquakes well".

Umut Akguzel Photograph 540

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A photograph looking east down Armagh Street from the Provincial Chambers Buildings. In the distance, the Victoria Apartments, Forsyth Barr, and PricewaterhouseCoopers buildings can be seen, as well as two cordon fences and a crane.

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2012:11:06 03:55:20)

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A photograph of a damaged colourful brick wall at New Brighton mall. There are bricks in front of it spread in a pattern, as well as a coiled up power cable.

Photograph of Gap Filler project 20 (33)

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Gap Filler and Poetica's "Instant Poetry" wall on Colombo Street. One of Shakespeare's sonnets has been painted on the mural as well as a blackboard. Members of the public are encouraged to add their poems to the blackboard.

Elizabeth Ackermann Photograph 334

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A photograph of members of the public walking along the edge of the cordon on the intersection of Colombo and Gloucester Streets. In the background, the Forsyth Barr Building can be seen as well as the partially-demolished PricewaterhouseCoopers Building.

BeckerFraserPhotos June 2012 photograph 717

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Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The future of Calendar Girls is uncertain, because although it survived the earthquakes well, it is now within the zone called 'The Frame' and may not be deemed to be a suitable use for that zone".

BeckerFraserPhotos April 2012 photograph 218

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The PricewaterhouseCoopers building photographed from Cambridge Terrace, across the Avon River. A skip can be seen on the road as well as wire fencing and a road cone. Some of the windows above are broken and have been boarded up with wood.

BeckerFraserPhotos April 2012 photograph 249

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Colombo Street looking south from Kilmore Street. Wire and concrete fencing has been used as a cordon. In the distance a drill and a crane can be seen, as well as the damaged tower of the Cathedral, the Forsyth Building and the BNZ Building.

BeckerFraserPhotos April 2012 photograph 217

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The PricewaterhouseCoopers building photographed from Cambridge Terrace, across the Avon River. A skip can be seen on the road as well as wire fencing and a road cone. Some of the windows above are broken and have been boarded up with wood.

BeckerFraserPhotos February 2012 photograph 0658

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A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "The side door of the cathedral on the south face is as elegant as ever, even if the setting is not as well-kept as we are accustomed to seeing it".

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A photograph taken from the top of the BNZ building. The photograph is captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "There are workers suspended from a cage about a third of the way up the Pacific Tower as well as a couple of workers on the top penthouse floor. It's hard to see where they are suspended from".

Paul and Sam Corliss's Street Art Photograph (2012:07:15 13:26:30)

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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.

Performance of retrofitted unreinforced masonry buildings during the Chris…

Research papers, The University of Auckland Library

The performance of retrofitted unreinforced masonry (URM) bearing wall buildings in Christchurch is examined, considering ground motion recordings from multiple events. Suggestions for how the experiences in Christchurch might be relevant to retrofit practices common to New Zealand, U.S. and Canada are also provided. Whilst the poor performance of unretrofitted URM buildings in earthquakes is well known, much less is known about how retrofitted URM buildings perform when subjected to strong ground shaking.

Educating for disaster: Determining the core elements of a disaster curric…

Research papers, The University of Auckland Library

In 2010 and 2011, Aotearoa New Zealand was hit by a number of major disasters involving loss of human life and severe disruption to social, ecological and economic wellbeing. The Pike River mine explosions were closely followed by a sequence of major earthquakes in Christchurch, seismic events that have permanently altered the lives of thousands of people in our third largest city, the closure of the central business district and the effective abandonment of whole residential areas. In early October 2011, the ship, Rena, grounded on a reef off the port of Tauranga and threatened a major oil spill throughout the Bay of Plenty, where local communities with spiritual and cultural connections to the land depend on sea food as well as thrive on tourism. The Council for Social Work Education Aotearoa New Zealand (CSWEANZ), representing all the Schools of Social Work in New Zealand, held a ‘Disaster Curriculum’ day in November 2011, at which social workers and Civil Defence leaders involved in the Christchurch earthquakes, the Rena Disaster, Fiji floods and the Boxing Day tsunami presented their narrative experience of disaster response and recovery. Workshops discussed and identified core elements that participants considered vital to a social work curriculum that would enable social work graduates in a range of community and cultural settings to respond in safe, creative and informed ways. We present our core ideas for a social work disaster curriculum and consider a wide range of educational content based on existing knowledge bases and new content within a disaster framework. http://www.swsd-stockholm-2012.org/