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    The City the Quake Built

    Jan 25, 2021 4 minutes
    BY JOHN WALSH

    It’s 10 years since the Christchurch earthquake — not so long in the story of a city, but a sizeable portion of the lives of its citizens. A child starting at intermediate school at the time of the quake might this year be finishing university. That child will have grown up in a city in “recovery”.

    The remaking of Christchurch, especially the CBD, has been a huge and often contentious endeavour. For most of the post-quake decade, the Anglican ChristChurch Cathedral served as the touchstone for an emotionally charged debate between those who wanted to move on and those who wanted to hold on.

    The battle for the shaping of the city

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