This article written by Chris Keall was originally featured in the National Business Review, and looks at a concept of rebuilding Christchurch without a central CBD area focus. It highlights some interesting points that should be given cponsideration.
The government’s $1.35 billion ultrafast broadband project offers a chance to recast our cities, doing away with a CBD, one Telecom executive reckons – and workarounds in Christchurch point to the future.
At the Tuanz Telecommunications Day conference in Wellington, Gen-i Australasia chief executive Chris Quin said all major urban centres could become, well, less centred. Instead of being the centre of all business, civil and social activity, the current CBD could become one of the larger hubs surrounded by other smaller ones.
We hear endless rhetoric about urban planning, of course, a movement that usually delivers great ideas that get lost in a drawer somewhere; or less-than-great ideas (Canberra, Milton Keynes) that should have been lost in a drawer somewhere.
Single point of failure
Mr Quin said change has already come to Christchurch. The city’s CBD was a “single point of failure” during the two earthquakes
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