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I don't know how many people saw my pics of the Parekowhai bulls a couple of weeks back, but I think you can see in these pictures how delighted folks have been to have some awesome things in the CBD.
We don't need perfect new buildings just now. We're used to bad roads and detours and piles of rubble. What we need is things that are worth going to the city to see and do. We've been so starved of reasons to go out. We need more events and shows and happenings. And we need time to thrash out the detail of the new CBD. We're all so tired and fun-deprived.
If the community doesn't come together in the CBD then it's pointless having one.
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As I’ve probably said in other threads, CERA seems to have given no thought to allowing short-to-medium-term solutions in the CBD: pop-up premises that are “temporary” but which could work for several years while bigger projects are worked out and built. “Temporary” destinations will keep the CBD alive; turning it into one big building site will kill it dead.
Chch people have adapted to never knowing where businesses and facilities will be from one quake to the next. We go to what’s open, wherever it is. And all sorts of creative and wonderful projects are flowering in vacant spaces. CERA should be encouraging this organic and community-driven process and making themselves a part of it. We’re paying their goddamn wages.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Chris Waugh,
The release yesterday of the blueprint for the rebuild of Christchurch's central business district is great news for Christchurch, it's going to be a world class city to live and work in. However personally and professionally this writer (Antony Ellis, co-owner of NZ Fine Prints) is bitterly disappointed that our perfectly ok to rebuild on CBD land that has been the home of New Zealand Fine Prints for nearly fifty years is going to be taken from my family by the council to be part of the green frame to the east of the new smaller CBD. Our plans to rebuild the largest specialist art print gallery in NZ are now replaced instead by, wait for it, a lawn.
That is shitty. I wouldn't say it's a done deal, though.
Property lawyer Hamish Grant, of Anthony Harper, said there was "big uncertainty" about the processes, and owners should not take Cera's word "as gospel".
"Case law says the Government has to act responsibly, and if there's doubt the law will come down in favour of the property owner. In my view, they [Cera] should have to play by those rules."
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Leigh Russell,
the spring light certainly does show up the need for it!
There's a solution for that! Keep the curtains drawn. :-)
Kidding.
We had hailstorms in the night, but today is another improbably gorgeous one. I've got all the doors open.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Russell Brown,
New Brighton, on a sparkling spring Sunday
Doesn’t it look nice!! You picked a good weekend to come down. :-)
The sky seems so big at Brighton on a clear day. The perfect place to fly kites.
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On the theme of growing stuff, how about plants on top of buses? It can be done !!
“nomadic urban agriculture.”, oh yes!! -
Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to JacksonP,
Should have shaved the new tyres
To make "high speed" tyres? ;-)
But I'm not seeing any Anorak Guy, or any voluptuous curves! We are disappointed.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Impermanence, in reply to Danielle,
That bilious yellow suit
The colour of bilirubin! Which is important stuff. I'm sure you wanted to know that.
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s'warm out there
Long exposure of insects flying around a floodlight. Woweee!
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Leigh Russell,
That massive carrot tasted every bit as good as it looks!
Can testify to the yumminess of Leigh's carrots! Entirely different beasts to what's found in the supermarket.