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In the jungles of Meghalaya, India, the Khasi people have grown living root bridges over rivers for centuries. Photo: © Amos Chapple
Culture

Ancient infrastructure, resilient future: Julia Watson’s ‘Lo-TEK’ vision for sustainable cities

By Foreground — February 20, 2020

Smoke blankets south eastern Australia, 4 January 2020. Image: NASA
Cities

The Foreground five: Our most-read stories in January

By Foreground — February 5, 2020

A tapestry of richly varied planting is distributed around and between Bendigo Hospital seating.
Cities

Designing the healthy city

By Foreground — January 24, 2020

Smoke blankets south eastern Australia, 4 January 2020. Image: NASA
Cities

Big smoke: Climate change and the future of urban air

By Foreground — January 23, 2020

Burnt Mountain Ash in Murrindindi Scenic Reserve, Victoria. Photo: Doug Beckers
Planning

Australia’s bushfire catastrophe: The real problem isn’t ‘woke greenies’, but a refusal to plan for the worst

By Foreground — January 9, 2020

Dr Sebastian Pfautsch
Cities

Extreme measures: An ecologist’s urban sensors show us just how hot Western Sydney is getting

By Foreground — December 12, 2019

With the help of experts, communities in the suburbs, towns and and cities of Australia are taking control of their own neighborhoods to plan for climate change. Photo: Tom Rumble
Politics

From placemaking to place survival: Experts and the new community activism

By Foreground — December 12, 2019

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

The Foreground five: Our most-read stories in November

By Foreground — December 4, 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
Culture

Cultural movement: what can dance tell us about place?

By Foreground — November 28, 2019

Professor David Bowman, pyrogeographer.
Environment

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

By Foreground — November 14, 2019

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

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.
Environment

Biodiversity loss: the canary in the coalmine

By Foreground — October 29, 2019

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