If you’re looking for something to read while researching emigrating to New Zealand, here’s something you may want to take a look at. “Many New Zealand cities and towns are spartan, ugly and makeshift – designed with little regard to the natural world around them” not our words, but those of urban designer Garth Falconer. Falconer…
Four years after the 22 February earthquake we’re re-blogging a post from the site RebuildingChristchurch.wordpress.com as a tribute to the people who still live in Christchurch and wonder when their city will ever be restored to normal. Current estimates are that the re-build will be spun out over 10 years to provide a sustained boost…
The American news website Vice says Christchurch is still in a mess 4 years after the devastating Canterbury earthquakes, adding it has become a “city of car parks” Far from normal “…four years later Christchurch has become a city of car parks. Around 1,500 buildings have been demolished, leaving a city the size and planning density of…
Still affected by the Earthquake Commission’s incompetence? you may want to read this article in today’s Stuff: Earthquake Commission (EQC) staff have been caught out using a Class A drug, assessing earthquake damage in 76 seconds and bullying. A long list of behavioural and performance issues has been released to The Press under the…
Poor thirteen year old Tyler Corbett-Gaber held his boxer dog Troy as it died in his arms. The dog, who had been trying to defend they boy, had been strangled by an intruder that broke into their family home in Christchurch on Friday and wrecked the property, leaving it looking like a “war zone”. Our…
E2NZ.org 
You must be logged in to post a comment.