Foreground - Cities, places and the people who make them

The remnants of Mount Kilimanjaro's fabled fields of snow and ice, as seen from space in 2012. Image: NASA Earth Observatory

How to design with nature now?

A new book marking fifty years since the publication of Ian McHarg’s influential Design With Nature reflects on his work, finding enduring lessons for tackling today’s many environmental crises. The following excerpt is written by Andrew Revkin and serves as the foreword of Design with Nature Now.

By Andrew Revkin — November 27, 2019

Driverless vehicles and pedestrians don't mix

Driverless vehicles and pedestrians don’t mix. So how do we re-arrange our cities?

By Peter Newman — November 28, 2019

Dancer and choreographer Amrita Hepi moves in the landscape – part of a video installation produced with Claire Winsor funded by the TCL Kevin Taylor Legacy. Image: videographer Peter Drew

Cultural movement: what can dance tell us about place?

By Foreground — November 28, 2019

The public space protests of Hong Kong have attracted particular interest over the past month. Photo: Pasu Au Yeung

The Foreground five: Our most-read stories in November

By Foreground — December 4, 2019

The rise of privately-owned public space has brought with it greater private security surveillance of public activity.

Wrong division: The rise of privately-owned public space

By Claire Martin — November 25, 2019

Professor David Bowman, pyrogeographer.

Pyrogeographer David Bowman on the art and science of living with fire

By Foreground — November 14, 2019

National Indigenous Fire Workshop. Cape York 2014 at Steve Irwin Wildfire Reserve, hosted by Taepithiggi people, Mapoon Land and Sea Rangers.

Cultural burning can be a vital fire management tool

By The Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation — November 13, 2019

Swiss National Museum, Zurich. With a few, striking elements such as a mirror water basin, visual relations between the Gartenhof and Park are established. Photo: Giuseppe Micciche

The Foreground five: Our most-read stories in October

November 11, 2019

The encampment of the student group Occupy Central with Love and Peace in Admiralty, Hong Kong, September 2014. Students defended themselves with umbrellas that evening when flooded with tear gas. Photo: Wing1990hk

The protest landscapes of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement

By Paige Anderson — November 7, 2019

Urban and regional planner Phoebe Harrison believes that people are ready for proactive engagement and doing things differently. Photo: Antenna

The politics of value: good planning makes dollars and sense

By Phoebe Harrison — October 31, 2019

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architect's International Festival of Landscape Architecture – the square and the park – was held over two days in October to a capacity audience. Photo: David Hyde

The square and the park: a festival review

By Michael Smith — October 31, 2019

Urban light pollution can disrupt critical behaviours in wildlife, stalling the recovery of threatened species and interfering with ecosystem resilience. Photo: Michael

Seeing the light: new moves to tackle night sky pollution

By Foreground — October 30, 2019

Biodiversity loss is the canary in the coalmine of landscape systems health. With one million species currently under threat of extinction globally, what can be done? Photo: Andreas P.

Biodiversity loss: the canary in the coalmine

By Foreground — October 29, 2019

Winner of The Future Park design competition – The Gap by Marti Fooks, Claire Winsor, Suhas Vasudeva and Jacqueline Heggli.

The Power of Parks

By Foreground — October 17, 2019

Has the removal of level crossings in Melbourne's rail network helped or hindered property values? Photo: Peter Bennetts Photography

Elevated value: how is sky rail affecting real estate?

By Chyi Lin Lee, Jerry Liang, Kang Koo — October 15, 2019