Parks & places

In pictures: 2020 AILA National Awards

by —October 13, 2020

Murama Healing Space & Dance Ground Murama—Cultural Council in partnership with the Sydney Olympic Park Authority

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) announces 46 winners, including 13 Awards of Excellence, acknowledging the most significant of work for advancement in landscape architecture.

Australia's higher education section is in crisis and government re-prioritisation policies create losers and winners. What do changes to the university courses mean for landscape architecture? Image: Per Gosche
Planning & policy

Cuts to higher education prompt concerns for healthy cities

by —October 19, 2020

In Australia, the single largest danger to children is a world made for and of cars. Image: SLV Collection
Planning & policy

Petrol-powered planning: Car parks, COVID-19 and the future of urban retail (part 2)

by —October 13, 2020

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Berlin is a city of nooks and cannies, in which people have made small reclamations of public space. Image: Jon Mountjoy
Parks & places

Squats, squares and city plans: Berlin by accident and design

by —October 6, 2020

Shoppers in Melbourne's Bourke Street battle with cars for street space, c.1948. Image: State Library of Victoria archives
Planning & policy

Street fight: Car parks, COVID-19 and the future of urban retail (part 1)

by —September 30, 2020

New development encroaches on farmland in Melbourne's outer west. Image: Google Earth
Planning & policy

Marvellous no more: Melbourne’s planning failure

by —September 24, 2020

Sunvale Community Park, Sunshine, for Brimbank City Council, local government in Sunshine. Image: Emma Cross
Parks & places

Neighbourhood squared

by —September 23, 2020

Mangroves in Sungei Buloh Nature Park, Singapore
Agriculture & environment

“Streamlined” environmental protections, strangled wetlands

September 7, 2020

Darwin Civic and State Square Masterplan. Image: TCL
Parks & places

Diverse by design

by —September 1, 2020

Bushfire in Australia.
Agriculture & environment

Flume country

by —August 31, 2020

Landscapology and Bligh Tanner has transformed a drain into a living waterway at Small Creek, Ipswich. Image: Alan Hoban
Parks & places

Foreground’s most-read: Top stories for July 2020

by —August 11, 2020

æResearch has shown experiences of public space are individual and unique. Women from different racial backgrounds and of different ages, sexuality, disabilities and socio-economic class have very different experiences.” Photo: Jake Ingle
Planning & policy

What does the ‘new normal’ look like for women’s safety in cities?

by , , —August 11, 2020

A new landmark community-focused Centre in Rubibi (Broome) brings together culture, Country, public art and community. Image: Nyamba-Buru-Yawuru
Parks & places

Common knowledge: culture embedded in the design process

by —August 7, 2020

Cycling and walking infrastructure are consistently short-changed in transport budgets, and this under values the economic contributions of sustainable transport. Image: Marc Kleen
Transport

Cycling and walking are overlooked in Australia’s recovery budget, and this is a mistake

by , —July 29, 2020

Small Creek, Ipswich
Parks & places

On the outskirts of Brisbane, an urban drain takes on a life of its own

by —July 24, 2020