McCloud, best known for his Grand Designs TV series which screens in New Zealand, said new Christchurch architecture could be different to anywhere else - and should be.
He has called for planning to challenge the city's rigid grid forms from the old ground plan and he cited Melbourne as an example of "what happens when you relax planing laws and allow people to repopulate a city centre - it springs alive".McCloud visited Christchurch after the earthquakes and his thoughts are in a new book, Once in a Lifetime: City-building after Disaster in Christchurch, edited by Barnaby Bennett, James Dann, Emma Johnson and Ryan Reynolds, a 512-page series of 55 essays.
McCloud said Christchurch could become a series of villages or new neighbourhoods that could be self-sufficient in food and energy, a type of super-sustainable and resilient city prototype, a place that takes biodiversity, landscape and Maori design principles to its very heart.
The new book contains a wide variety of views about Christchurch, master planning the rebuild, architecture, social and environmental issues and people's response to the earthquakes.
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