The ground.
What the ground under Christchurch is like: where floods have run, what’s buried, what slopes and stones can do, and what the district plan says each piece is for.
- What stood here
- Flood hazard: the waiting water
- The floods on record: when the water came
- Tsunami reach: the sea’s reach
- Slope failure: the moving ground
- Rockfall & boulders: the rocks that came down
- Fill & made ground: the made ground
- Buried landfills: the buried city
- Remediated ground: the ground that got cleaned
- The vulnerability map: the model’s map
- Flood defences: the armour
- Hazardous sites: the dangerous work
The plan’s word on it
- Zones: the plan’s word
- The rules on the ground
- Designations: the reservations
- Plan matters: the exceptions
- The listed city
- Cultural sites: the remembered ground
- Ecological sites: the wild ledger
- Landscape overlays: the kept view
- Density standards: the allowed shape
- Noise contours: the quiet lines
- Water margins: the drawn water
- All of it, counted: the lay of the land
- Before: the founding question
For what the earthquakes did to this ground (liquefaction, the land grades, the red zone) see The earthquakes.