I stood at the Bridge of Remembrance and looked down what was left of the city mall. Tears welled up as I thought of our service men who had given their lives to help Britain in Word War I and II. We lost more men per head of population that any other country.

The devastating February earthquake which claimed lives, injured people physically and mentally and we have coped with nearly 8000 quakes in a year and still they rumble through. The loss of historic buildings, churches, the loss of businesses and employment not to mention peoples’ homes and land has really been an enormous task for us all to deal with. The loss of the familiar to us all – gone in seconds. The Government, Council, Earthquake Commission, churches, and many other groups have all got together to keep people hopeful. Many schools whose buildings were so unsafe or destroyed, had to share facilities across the city with other schools which meant hundreds of teachers, children and parents reorganizing their days,transport and of course the USAR teams from around the world and workers from various professions who came to support Christchurch.

Then, just when one is getting excited about some form of familiarity, albeit temporary, coming back into the City Mall, there comes a GRIM REAPER. I wonder if Roger Wade helped Christchurch in any positive way? Even Prince William came, saw and I believe donated some money.

Intellectual property rights! If you share information, you only own half of it. No, we don’t want a pop-up mall, we have our own City Mall.
Containers are amazing for their various uses from prison cells, fantastic houses, storage (many on people’s lawns at present, storage on farms, cafes, university extensions as in Germany.

Check out the history of Shoreditch from monasteries, gangs, prostitution and to the recovery it is trying to make today:

The History of Shoreditch – Space Station Home
http://www.thespacestation.co.uk/localinfo_history/history_shoreditch.htm
A brief history of Shoreditch … largely Monastic land, with several wealthy nunneries and Priories in the area, and stayed that way until the mid sixteenth century. …