Culture

Making cities for people with Jan Gehl

by —May 15, 2021

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

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