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A decade on, a tale of two cities

A decade on, a tale of two cities Newsroom 18/02/2021 © Provided by Newsroom Post-quake Christchurch has come a long way in 10 years, but is, in part, a confusion of contrasts and contradictions. Have our expectations been too high? David Williams reports Ann Brower doesn’t mind being in central Christchurch, which is surprising, really. On February 22, 2011, the bus she was riding along Colombo St was crushed by building debris – the parapet and façade of an unreinforced masonry building – after a 6.3 magnitude quake hit, killing 185 people. Twelve people died beside her. In Brower’s remarkable first-person piece from 2017, the University of Canterbury Associate Professor writes: “I’m the only one left, the lucky 13th.”

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