It is easy to have clear cycle and pedestrian areas in the elevated space. This is a much safer mix than cars/bike/pedestrians.
Update (June 8th)
Videos from the TedXEQChch conference, which Grant and Julian attended, are now available. Held in Chch on May 21st, it was an amazing event, filled with 700+ proud, optimistic citizens who are all keen to get on with this massive task of rebuilding our city.Grant presented on "the economic cost of being boring" which went down very well.
Watch it here and search YouTube for the others.
Some great summaries here and here.
Check out the latest update post, a more detailed example of the EGC concept on one block.
The great response continues, thank you everyone who has visited and contributed so far. Please keep them coming and get involved with fleshing out some more detail on how we might bring the Elevated City to life.
We have just released a first cut FAQ section to the site, attempting to start summarising the key points of discussion around the elevated garden city concept.
Check out the concept video (now in HD) and we welcome other visualisations of the concept.
We are impressed with the attention we have gained from the Press and also on ReimagineChristchurch, be sure to add your support for the concept over there.
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The aim
The aim of this website is to make sure we all think "outside the box" when we consider how to rebuild the CBD of our beloved Christchurch. This is a chance to turning Christchurch into an iconic world city without costing a fortune.
A few of us have been bouncing these ideas around (and they have been mentioned else where) so we thought we’d put a bit of effort into communicating and generating support for the idea of Christchurch being the world's elevated Garden City.
We are no experts at most of this but we have been inviting others that are to contribute to the concept and see what we can create. We are great believers in tapping into creative people from all over the world to discuss and build out the concepts. If you want to contribute you can register an account or you are welcome to comment on any blog posts.
All the images and the new video on the Concept images and video page we have created are available to download and tweak and get creative with. This is all about throwing ideas out there.
We have a chance to do something very cool so lets not waste it. We look forward to hearing your thoughts.
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