SHIFTING A CITY: ŌTAUTAHI 10 YEARS ON
At the height of the last recession, jobs were few and far between. While my peers were flocking to the mining-driven boom in Australia, I packed my bags and headed south to Ōtautahi, Christchurch. This was January 2010. Little did I know that the somewhat-sleepy garden city set out in 1850 was about to undergo a seismic shift, in more ways than one.
The initial September 2010 earthquake felt catastrophic at the
