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Please Demolish With A Kind Heart : Behind The Christchurch Red Zone
Hardback Edition: 1
The Christchurch earthquake of 22 February 2011 caused widespread devastation, resulting in the deaths of 185 people, injuring thousands and leaving a city traumatised.
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Five years on, much of Christchurch has been transformed. Thousands of irreparably damaged surburban homes and central city buildings have been demolished
and the rebuild is underway. But there are other places in the city, in the red-zoned surbuban streets and downtown blocks, that seem frozen in time. Officially deemed too dangerous to occupy they are in a kind of suspended animation - the people are gone but everything they left as they fled remains there, in the same place, moved only by the thousands of aftershocks. Intrigued by the abandoned spaces, photographer Chis Howey noticed that they weren't being recorded, and believing it was important that they were, set out to do just that. The result Please Demolish with a Kind Heart - a moving and at times eerie homage to Christchurch's abandoned homes, buildings and recreational spaces, and iconic Cathedrals; confronting reminders of how, in seconds, people's lives were changed forever. Featuring over 200 images with accompying text by Canterbury journalist and television producer Tony Benny, Please Demolish with a Kind Heart is a poignant and important record of one of New Zealand's worst disasters, and a timely tribute to the indomitable spirit that is rebuilding Christchurch for future generations. Featured in the 9 November 2016 New Zealand newsletter.
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Pages : 224
Publisher : PQ Blackwell
Publication date : 2015-11
Subjects: Non-fiction, New Zealand, Science And Technology, NZ Biography & True Stories, Earth Science, Natural Disasters