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This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an
evolving post-earthquake city. It examines the impact of the
2010-13 Canterbury earthquake sequence, employing a chronological
structure to consider 'damage and displacement', 'recovery and
renewal' and 'the city in transition'. It offers a framework for
understanding the multiple experiences and realities of
post-earthquake recovery. It details how the rebuilding of the city
has occurred and examines what has arisen in the context of an
unprecedented opportunity to refashion land uses and social
experience from the ground up. A recurring tension is observed
between the desire and tendency of some to reproduce previous urban
orthodoxies and the experimental efforts of others to fashion new
cultures of progressive place-making and attention to the
more-than-human city. The book offers several lessons for
understanding disaster recovery in cities. It illuminates the
opportunities disasters create for both the reassertion of the
familiar and the emergence of the new; highlights the divergence of
lived experience during recovery; and considers the extent to which
a post-disaster city is prepared for likely climate futures. The
book will be valuable reading for critical disaster researchers as
well as geographers, sociologists, urban planners and policy makers
interested in disaster recovery.
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