VIBRANT STAYER
Di Lucas, Landscape Architect
Dry Plains
Wet Plains
Coastal
Port Hills
Source: Lucas Associates 1995
Shorelines in the last 9,000 years
Source: The Estuary Where Our Rivers Meet the Sea Christchurch’s Avon-Heathcote Estuary & Brooklands Lagoon, p. 4
Courthouse Riverbank Dune 1852
Underlying Ecosystems Avon River - Hagley Park to the sea
South Pacific Ocean Hagley Park
Source: Lucas Associates
Christchurch Convention Centre
Totara stumps 1m metre below ground Source: Lucas Associates
Source: Lucas Associates
Greatest Health for the Greatest Number 1850 Map A park greenbelt was to: •Improve the environment for the working class •Separate urban and rural •Control city expansion
•Guard against & protect the natives •Transplant the British landscape
1850 Map of Christchurch Central City overlain on post-February quake aerial
WAT E R WAY E N H A N C E M E N T
LEVEE
Source: Lucas Associates
Fitzgerald Avenue-Avon River
Source: TV3 News, NZ Raw
Halswell River levees ripped after the February earthquake
Central City Waterways as at 1850 & in 2000
Source: Christchurch City Council 1999
Source: Lucas Associates
D R A F T
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March 2011
Flood Management Area in City Plan January 30, 2011 Avon River Blue-Greenway Pedestrian Corridor & Cycleway Potential
DRAFT LIDAR, use with care overlain with Flood Management Areas
March 2011
‘It’s not our intention that it [red zone] will become a park’ -Gerry Brownlee
Nelson Mail June 25, 2011
Flood Management Areas
Adopted January 31, 2011 by Christchurch City Council Flood Management Areas overlain (green) with ‘red zone’ designated areas (red)
Tjibaou Cultural Centre, New Caledonia
Source: Lucas Associates
Ecosystems
Poplar trees along the Avon River from Manchester Street
Source: Lucas Associates
Commendable works
Source: Christchurch City Council 1999
Source: Christchurch City Council
Day-lighted stream corner of Barbados & Salisbury Streets
Day-lighted waterway through central Seoul BEFORE
AFTER
Source: maximizingprogress.org
waitangi park, wellington
Source: A Deeper Shade of Green
waitangi park, wellington
Source: A Deeper Shade of Green
The Meridian Building in Kumutoto precinct, Wellington
green buildings
Source: A Deeper Shade of Green
‘Earthsong’ Ecovillage in Ranui, Waitakere
Images: A Deeper Shade of Green Edited by Johann Bernhardt
Source: A Deeper Shade of Green
Food cultivation
Solar panels within a green roof Rain garden
Green Wall Bioretention strips or stormwater planters
Green roof Rain garden Permeable paving Small trees
Medium to large trees Footpath
Green Building Model Source: Lucas Associates
solar city
Source: A Deeper Shade of Green
A permanent canopy st ruct ure, Wait omo
Source: Architecture NZ Magazine 2011
‘Marokapara’ Green Roof (built 1998) example of a ‘green roof’ in the city increasing local biodiversity while reducing water runoff
Wall greened with native climber
Rain Gardens
Source: A Deeper Shade of Green, p99
A consequence of urban sprawl
A Deeper Shade of Green Edited by Johann Bernhardt
Lucas Associates 1995
STUFF THE GRID! The draughty eastwest channels, that is, plant them up. Bisect & intersect the grid to create f r i e n d l y, g r e e n l a n e spaces.
Alternative Transport Options community buses & zero emission public transport
cycle hire
Images from http://londoncyclechic.blogspot.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/bottleneck/2008/09/weve-posted-ple.html.
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