IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cjudxx/v21y2016i2p159-176.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Public space and recovery: learning from post-earthquake Christchurch

Author

Listed:
  • Diane Brand
  • Hugh Nicholson

Abstract

How might the urban structure and public space of Christchurch change as a result of the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes? This paper will look at council and community led post-earthquake urban space projects in Christchurch, New Zealand, to investigate the potential reconfiguration of urban public space and structure and the balance of top-down and bottom-up design processes for the delivery of these projects. This will be achieved by comparing the performance of the urban public space and structure of the city during the post-earthquake emergency and recovery phases, with a view to understanding the contribution that these elements can make to the resilience of Christchurch. The paper will argue that Christchurch’s nineteenth century urban structure served the population well during the emergency phases of the disaster and that post-earthquake community-led initiatives model innovative capabilities which may enhance urban design practice in the future.

Suggested Citation

  • Diane Brand & Hugh Nicholson, 2016. "Public space and recovery: learning from post-earthquake Christchurch," Journal of Urban Design, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(2), pages 159-176, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cjudxx:v:21:y:2016:i:2:p:159-176
    DOI: 10.1080/13574809.2015.1133231
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13574809.2015.1133231
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/13574809.2015.1133231?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Gavin Smith & Wendy Saunders & Olivia Vila & Samata Gyawali & Samiksha Bhattarai & Eliza Lawdley, 2021. "A comparative analysis of hazard-prone housing acquisition programs in US and New Zealand communities," Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Springer;Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences, vol. 11(3), pages 392-403, September.
    2. Magdalena Vicuña & Jorge León & Simón Guzmán, 2022. "Urban form planning and tsunami risk vulnerability: Analysis of 12 Chilean coastal cities," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 49(7), pages 1967-1979, September.
    3. Mark Dyer & Shaoqun Wu & Min-Hsien Weng, 2021. "Convergence of Public Participation, Participatory Design and NLP to Co-Develop Circular Economy," Circular Economy and Sustainability,, Springer.
    4. Sedigheh Meimandi Parizi & Mohammad Taleai & Ayyoob Sharifi, 2022. "A GIS-Based Multi-Criteria Analysis Framework to Evaluate Urban Physical Resilience against Earthquakes," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-31, April.
    5. David Koren & Katarina Rus, 2019. "The Potential of Open Space for Enhancing Urban Seismic Resilience: A literature Review," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(21), pages 1-20, October.
    6. Sahar Zavareh Hofmann, 2022. "Build Back Better and Long-Term Housing Recovery: Assessing Community Housing Resilience and the Role of Insurance Post Disaster," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-23, May.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cjudxx:v:21:y:2016:i:2:p:159-176. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cjud20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.