From the city that rocks, observations from post-earthquake Christchurch New Zealand
dc.contributor.author | Challenger, Neil P. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-02-10T00:52:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-11 | |
dc.description.abstract | At 4.35 a.m. on the 4th of September 2010 Christchurch residents were shaken awake by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake, the largest earthquake to hit urban New Zealand for nearly 80 years. It was a large earthquake. On average the world only has 17 earthquakes a year larger than magnitude seven. Haiti’s earthquake in January 2010 was magnitude 7.1 and Chile’s earthquake in February was magnitude 8.8. Although it was a big quake, Christchurch was lucky. In Haiti’s earthquake over 230,000 people were killed and in Chile 40,000 homes were destroyed. Happily this was not the situation in Christchurch, however the earthquake has caused considerable damage. The challenge for the Landscape Architecture community is to contribute to the city’s reconstruction in ways that will not only fix the problems of housing, and the city’s urban, suburban and neighbourhood fabric but that will do so in ways that will help solve the landscape problems that dogged the city before the earthquake struck. | en |
dc.format.extent | 4-6 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10182/4213 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | International Federation of Landscape Architects | |
dc.relation | The original publication is available from - International Federation of Landscape Architects | en |
dc.relation.isPartOf | International Federation of Landscape Architects Newsletter | en |
dc.rights | © International Federation of Landscape Architects. | |
dc.subject | Christchurch | en |
dc.subject | landscape architecture | en |
dc.subject | cityscape | en |
dc.subject | reconstruction | en |
dc.subject | seismic activity | en |
dc.subject | Canterbury earthquakes | en |
dc.title | From the city that rocks, observations from post-earthquake Christchurch New Zealand | en |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
lu.contributor.unit | Lincoln University | |
lu.contributor.unit | Faculty of Environment, Society and Design | |
lu.contributor.unit | School of Landscape Architecture | |
pubs.notes | Article published in the International Federation of Landscape Architects newsletter, No. 89, October 2010. | en |
pubs.publication-status | Published | en |
pubs.volume | 89 | en |
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