Before you read this, please know that I lived in Christchurch for 45 years and so do have some understanding of the city.
The following was published in the Letter's to the Editor column -
Watching the Christchurch rebuild, the pain of which is exacerbated by
the current flooding, makes me wonder about the wisdom of the path
being taken. Rebuilding a CBD in a low-lying area that is geologically
unstable and was slowly being abandoned by the citizenry even before the
earthquakes doesn’t recognise that Christchurch was already evolving
into a city of multiple centres.
Maybe that process needs to be allowed to continue to allow a city
centred around a higher, drier collection of smaller conjoined centres
interspersed with low-lying green space.
David Cohen
Dunedin
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