A call for submissions for Recovery: Lessons in Post-Disaster Planning (working title)

For more information on the book and its various topics, please visit: http://www.projectfreerange.com/recovery/

In 2014 Freerange will publish a new book that reviews, critiques and re-imagines the government’s Christchurch Central City Recovery Plan – or Blueprint – that was launched in mid-2012, which continues to determine the post-earthquake planning of the centre of Christchurch. We aim to use this recovery plan as a lens through which to explore multiple facets of this, and by extension, discuss disaster recovery scenarios and city building.

We are looking for a combination of national and international voices to discuss aspects of the recovery plan and to offer alternative projects, case studies and approaches. The book will be divided into themed sections with 3-4 essays in each by local, national & international experts in their fields. Each section will also have a few focused case studies, either recovery projects within Christchurch or external examples we might learn from.  We welcome people from all sorts of backgrounds to author these case studies.

Christchurch presents the unprecedented situation of having to rebuild an entire central city and surrounding infrastructure in a First World economy in the twenty-first century and we wish for Recovery to be both the reference book and archive of this time.

Submissions close 30 December. For a full list of suggested topics and further information, please visit: http://www.projectfreerange.com/recovery/

For specific queries and suggestions, please contact emma@projectfreerange.com.