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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 Dan Hill—February 5, 2021

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

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 Cameron Muir—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 Vaughn Allan—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

Monkey business

by Jo Russell-Clarke—November 30, 2020

Paradise on Earth exhibition. Image: Ella Mudie

Paradise lost: The forgotten landscape legacy of Marion Mahony Griffin

by Ella Mudie—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 Amalie Wright—November 20, 2020

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 Catherine McGauran—October 19, 2020

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

In pictures: 2020 AILA National Awards

by Foreground Editors—October 13, 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 Elizabeth Taylor—October 13, 2020

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

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

by Mitra Anderson-Oliver—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 Elizabeth Taylor—September 30, 2020