Watching his father lead the rebuild of his hometown in Macedonia (now called the Republic of North Macedonia), after it was destroyed by an earthquake, inspired Misko Cubrinovski's 40-year career as an engineer. Professor Misko Cubrinovski is retiring after 20 of those years with the University of Canterbury.
Greater Christchurch has been through a lot over the past 25 years, and its public transport is no exception. This paper aims to understand the broader factors that have influenced public transport patronage growth from 1999-2025. This is split into two periods, 1999-2010 and 2015-2025, before and after the 2010-2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence which fundamentally changed Greater Christchurch. Patronage grew from 9.7 to 17.2 million per year in this first period, unprecedented growth for this network, during a time of significant investment into the network. In contrast, 2015-2025 saw stagnation in growth, or even decreases, only growing after the COVID-19 pandemic. Patronage could not keep up with population growth after the earthquakes with growth mostly occurring in the outer areas of Christchurch and its satellite towns. People are less likely to bus from these areas due to long travel times into much of Christchurch, significantly longer than by car. Additionally, many businesses and employees moved outside of Central Christchurch, the main employment area for Greater Christchurch, after the earthquakes, into areas with relatively low bus routes. Significantly less people were willing to bus to work in these areas, apart from Riccarton and Papanui. However, businesses have been returning to Central Christchurch, with more people willing to bus to work there. These past determinants of growth are important to understand so that their effects can be individually researched more in-depth in future, to provide greater clarity on what have been successful factors for public transport growth in Greater Christchurch, and find out if they can be reimplemented or expanded to reignite some of the growth experienced in the 2000’s.
Christchurch's Court Theatre is selling off a collection of oddities including props, costumes and even a fake horse? The theatre lost its home at the Art Centre after the 2011 earthquake and moved to a shed in Addington. They're now back in the central city and having a bit of clean out..with a public garage sale tomorrow. Court Theatre operations and facilities manager Flore Charbonnier spoke with LIsa Owen.
The contents of this dissertation explores the renovation of Noah’s hotel which was left abandoned after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. With the current state of New Zealand as of now, rent prices plummeting, and the ongoing mass emigration proves the country’s increased cost of living. A trend of ‘hidden homelessness’ in the forms of couch surfing and overcrowding tenancies evinces a mass economic displacement. This thesis is driven by means of speculation and of hope that by utilising Christchurch’s dilapidated sites can be transformed into safe havens for those evicted. Guided by the six principles of heterotopia introduced by Michel Foucault, the proposed co-living hotel determines to attest societal perception of hotels, and introduce a reality that alleviates a community from political and economical instability. In terms of Christchurch’s landscape, the hotel itself lies within Maltese Cross, layout planned in 1850 which defines the CBD’S unique urbanscape. Historic landmarks and erected projects use the cross as a guide in tandem with legislative policies strictly imposing the importance of view protection for heritage buildings - a notion made compulsory especially after the earthquake. By taking inspiration from Gordon Matta-Clark’s methodology of Conical Intersects, voids through the building act as viewshafts, each introducing key sites important to Christchurch. These voids simultaneously house integral communal areas and narrates a timeline of Ōtautahi’s crucial events