Welcome to the Christchurch rebuild maze – where empty sites are dead ends

PHOTO: Google Earth – We got six blocks east, but only one block south.

Can CHARLIE GATES get from one corner of Christchurch to the other without passing an empty site? Welcome to the First Annual Christchurch Rebuild Maze…

The challenge was simple – get from one corner of the four avenues in Christchurch to the other without passing an empty site.

It was a challenge that turned the city centre into a maze with empty sites acting as dead ends. Myself and visual journalist John Kirk-Anderson called it the First Annual Christchurch Rebuild Maze.

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