Cities develop district plans akin to general plans in the U. Special attention is also paid to Maori indigenous traditional and treaty interests within regional and city settings. Permits to build are only given by local governments accredited to do so by a national agency.
This oversight function demonstrates the control the national government exerts on local affairs as there is no state-level government equivalent to Australia's or the U.
Geotechnical information has been at the forefront of land-use and reconstruction policy in rebuilding Christchurch post-earthquake pop. Cities and residents now have extensive geotechnical information, paid for by the national government, that directly influences what gets built and where.
This information is incorporated into regulatory documents and guides the mitigation options for seismic, geotechnical, and flooding hazards, reducing the city's vulnerability and significantly increasing its resilience.
To lower future risk to the nationally backed residential disaster insurance program managed through the Earthquake Commission, the national government acquired, through a voluntary purchase program, 7, properties in residential areas with extensive ground failure damage, known as "residential red zones.
This program also helped lower the costs of road and infrastructure repairs for the local and national government. Insured residential property owners inside these red zones were given purchase offers at percent of the local property valuations as they existed before the first earthquake in Noninsured residential and nonresidential property owners were given a 50 percent valuation offer, which has since been overruled by the courts.
CERA is now soliciting public input on a new buyout offer for these properties. To address the complex infrastructure damage, a public-private partnership was established, using an alliance model. The firms work as a collective enterprise for the design, scheduling, and rebuild of water infrastructure, wastewater, stormwater, bridges, roads, and retaining walls. The government bodies approve and fund the projects. Lacking competitive bidding, the collaboration has operated efficiently and generated strong support from the communities served.
SCIRT is scheduled to sunset at the end of and transfer its responsibilities back to the government bodies. In , CERA adopted a Recovery Strategy, a statutory document of 23 programs that guide recovery efforts in multiple sectors. However, CERA has decided on much of its work unilaterally, frustrating many — and leading to some public skepticism about expected outcomes. The time-consuming, deliberative RMA planning processes have also been expedited for land-use activities necessary for the rebuild, for example releasing land for new housing construction and acquiring and consolidating land in the central city.
In , the national government directed the Christchurch City Council to develop a reconstruction plan for the central city. The resulting draft plan that was delivered to the Earthquake Minister has been internationally recognized for its public participation process. While the Earthquake Minister supported the plan's general concepts, he set aside all the transportation-related elements and the regulatory and implementation framework.
This step effectively transitioned leadership for the central city rebuilding from the local to the national level. Both plans propose a greener, more accessible city with a compact core and a recognizable built identity. The plan documents follow urban design concepts proposed in by Jan Gehl, FAIA, the Danish architect renowned for fostering pedestrian-friendly cities.
It's quite possibly the world's newest cathedral and the only one made of cardboard that was built as a temporary replacement for the city's badly damaged Anglican Cathedral, which remains wounded and mostly untouched. Inside the giant A-framed church built of recycled cardboard and bolstered by laminated timber and reinforced steel rows of pews face a large cross, which is, naturally, fashioned from cardboard. You could barely tell that anything had happened when you're in here and most people felt so safe they didn't want to get out and they just carried on doing their thing.
So it feels safe and it is a safe building," he says. Christchurch's response to disaster will help others in earthquake-prone regions - including those in central Italy still coming to terms with last month's catastrophe - not only recover from tragedy, but be more resilient in the future. Powerful quake off New Zealand coast. New Zealand profile. Image source, AFP. More than half of the earthquake's victims died in the Canterbury Television Building. Image source, Geoff Rodgers. Geoff Rodgers at the University of Canterbury with rocking steel frames.
Our role is to fill the gap and to fund projects that would not otherwise be possible The Trustees have adopted a portfolio approach to the fund. It provides a framework the Trustees will use to ensure there is a balance between the wishes of donors and the needs of the city. The Christchurch Earthquake Appeal would like to thank everyone who has donated through GlobalGiving. Your generosity will make a difference to the recovery effort in Canterbury. Funds have been allocated to repairing sports fields and parks, and to sport and recreation programmes for young people whose schools have been affected by the earthquakes.
The Trust will shortly be announcing a number of allocations. Keep up to date with the Appeal on our website: www. It has now been three months since the 6. One solution? Officials realized the focus on rebuilding the city must be about healthy people, not healthy buildings. So public health officials conjured a public outreach campaign known as All Right?
Officials credit this public health approach with helping the community deal with the stresses of the quake. I went to New Zealand to understand what a huge California earthquake would look like. A majority of studies found negative mental health effects resulting from the Christchurch earthquakes, Beaglehole said. One study of hundreds of Christchurch-born adults found a greater rate of mental health disorder among those who endured the quake than those who had moved away before the shaking began.
Earthquake survivors who suffered the most showed clear increases in mental health risk, that study showed. In addition, Beaglehole said, those already receiving specialist mental health services before the big earthquake saw the severity of their mental health worsen considerably for a number of years.
Eddy Snook took a deep interest in quakes when the Christchurch earthquake sequence began in the months before the deadliest tremor occurred. It was a natural fit for him. He was an electrical engineer and loved to figure out how things worked. He drove out to the Canterbury Plains on the weekend and plotted fault lines.
But soon, life became difficult. Sam, his childhood best friend, died from cystic fibrosis. Then the February quake hit, and he was shaken. The quake seemed to coincide with major changes in mood and outlook, according to his father, John.
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