Culture

Making cities for people with Jan Gehl

by —May 15, 2021

The renowned Danish architect and urban designer has played a leading role in shaping cities across the world. Foreground catches up with Jan Gehl to reflect on a lifetime involvement with Australian cities.

Parklets on Lygon St have been popular with diners.
Planning & policy

The future of Melbourne’s parklets

by , , —May 8, 2021

Transport

Learning to live with aggressionless cars

by —April 15, 2021

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Vauban in Freigburg, Germany, is celebrated internationally as a ‘green’ neighbourhood. Image: Claire 7373
Culture

(Re)Building cities from the neighbourhood up

by , , , , —April 9, 2021

Birds nesting in a carpark. Image: DLR, CC-BY
Planning & policy

Urban wildness: Healing the human-nature divide in the city

by —March 22, 2021

Jakarta sea level wall protection
Planning & policy

Abandoning Indonesia’s sinking mega city

by , —March 15, 2021

The Productivity Commission recommended a First Nations-led model of water reform.
Planning & policy

Water injustice runs deep in Australia: Fixing it means handing control to First Nations

by , , , , , —March 3, 2021

Detail of Marion Mahony Griffin's 'Eucalyptus urnigera Tasmanian Scarlet Bark, sunset (Forest Portrait',) c1918. (c) Mary + Leigh Block Museum of Art.
Parks & places

Picturing paradise: Marion Mahony Griffin and Castlecrag

by —February 8, 2021

An empty Eagle Street in inner city Brisbane, March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: Kgbo (cropped from original)
Planning & policy

The lurking trap of the ‘snap back’ city

by —February 5, 2021

Prahran Square is a new kind of purposeful space for a suburb that previously had little public, open space.
Culture

Foreground’s most-read stories of 2020

February 4, 2021

Regenerative farmer Ray Thompson standing on a salt scald on a farm in New South Wales.
Agriculture & environment

Re-designing farming

by —February 4, 2021

Free car parking doesn't build on the strengths of Melbourne's CBD, and might actually detract from them. Image: Berenice Melis
Planning & policy

Melbourne, it’s time to go big on a car-free recovery

by —December 2, 2020

Landscape architecture sometimes produces unexpected projects. Adelaide-based Wax have recently upgraded a monkey habitat at Adelaide Zoo. Image: Dan Schultz Sweetlime Photo
Parks & places

Monkey business

by —November 30, 2020

Paradise on Earth exhibition. Image: Ella Mudie
Culture

Paradise lost: The forgotten landscape legacy of Marion Mahony Griffin

by —November 27, 2020

Richard Tipping's ‘Watermark’ sculpture at the Brisbane Powerhouse, commemorating the 1974 floods, inundated by flood waters at New Farm, 2011. Image: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
Planning & policy

The flood: Designing cities for deluge

by —November 20, 2020