The remains of the everyday: Memories in an abandoned landscape

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The remains of the everyday: Memories in an abandoned landscape

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Following the 2010/2011 earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, the Government purchased and demolished 8,000 homes, all of which were on land no long considered suitable for building. What remains is the “residential red zone”: 630 hectares of abandoned landscape. Emptied of houses, but with a landscape that bares the stains of domesticity: hedges, fruit trees, artesian well heads, driveways, road crossings, street signs. Along with the invisible residues: the memories, the buried pets, th...

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Bowring, Jacqueline

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https://hdl.handle.net/10182/10324

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cultural landscape / memory landscape / heritage / everyday memory

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