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…
Days after the opening ceremony of the Cricket World Cup a Christchurch shopping mall has been stormed by armed police. After a car chase which ended at the entrance to Barrington Mall, police chased two suspects through the shopping centre. Police are keeping quiet about the incidents that led up to the pursuit, but it…
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…
You won’t see the riot word mentioned in this Stuff.co.nz article but you may be left wondering whether New Zealand has completed its transformation into a police state when a six year old’s birthday party turns into a riot. Note how the headline makes the police to be the victims here, and how their report…
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