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Place, Culture and Landscape After the
Christchurch Earthquake
Simon Swaffield

“Place, culture and landscape all provide continuity to our lives. Continuity of biophysical settings, of people and activities, of values and memories; in short, our sense of who we are. Yet communities become most aware of the importance of such continuity only when it is threatened – whether incrementally, for example, through globalisation; deliberately, through redevelopment; or dramatically, through natural disaster or conflict …”