Enduring structures: a disaster approach to urbanism in Christchurch

Abstract eng:
Can urban structure be enshrined in heritage conservation legislation as a means of ensuring that traditional or heritage urban development strategies can endure when other urban fabric has been destroyed, and when emergency response frameworks inhibit urban revitalisation using preservation, conservation or restoration strategies? This paper aims to establish the heritage value of urban structure where disasters such as a fire, tsunami or earthquake reduce a city or site to a ground zero state. The methodology involves looking at past approaches to post-disaster urban development, citing examples such as London, Turin, Lisbon and Warsaw, and re-evaluating these in comparison to the case of Christchurch, New Zealand where a large number of buildings in the CBD have been demolished three years on from two devastating earthquakes in 2010 and 2011.

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