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On 22 February, New Zealand will mark the tenth anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake which claimed 185 lives. Following the temblor, and the thousands ...
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Today marks 10 years since the shallow 6.2 magnitude quake struck near Christchurch’s city centre, resulting in 185 deaths.Join the 6pm team as they bring yo...
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Never before seen photos of post-earthquake Christchurch will go on display to mark the 10th anniversary. The online exhibition - curated from a mix of photos submitted by the community...
Ten years since an earthquake hit Christchurch in New Zealand and left 185 people dead, a major rebuild of the city's cathedral is under way.
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- Decolonising The City
- An Alternative Christchurch
- Diversity in Adversity
- Broken Heart of The City
Christchurch’s quake-damaged statues turned out to be unintentionally prescient. In 2020, there were international and national debates about the removal of colonial monuments past their use-by dates. Statues such as those of William Colston in the UK and John Hamiltonin Waikato fell amid calls to “topple the racists”. The post-quake rebuild had al...
Christchurch can be stereotyped as a formal, conventional city. But there is another, alternative past whose ways of living have much to offer the present. From the late 19th century the city had been a hotbed of early feminism, as well as home to movements promoting health and fitness, scenic reserves and communal living. That spirit appeared to f...
In my book I advocated respect for all people, regardless of race, ethnicity or how long they’d lived in the city. In hindsight, the events of March 15 2019 lend that optimism a chilling undertone. But in the wake of the terror attack there has been an outpouring of support for breaking down barriers between the city’s diverse communities. Perhaps ...
Ten years on there is still a lingering attachment to Christchurch as the “garden city”, a sentiment I argued had also ruptured. The future of the vast eastern residential red zone remains evocatively problematic. Plans for an Ōtākaro Avon River corridor are slowly emerging. Instead of rewilding it, however, vast tracts of domestic grass currently ...
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Feb 22, 2021 · The killer Christchurch earthquake, which claimed 185 lives 10 years ago today, came from the violent rupturing of a previously unknown fault line pointing straight at the city, scientists have revealed.
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Feb 22, 2021 · When the deadly second earthquake struck Christchurch 10 years ago today, among the many things toppled by natural forces were statues of the city's founding father John Robert Godley, colonial politician William Rolleston and imperial hero Robert Falcon Scott.
