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FLIR image showing concentration of heat in a Western Sydney neighbourhood.
Cities

The Foreground five: Our most-read stories in December

January 8, 2020

New park and skating facilities at Noble Park station precinct. Photo: Peter Bennetts Photography
Cities

Take ten: Foreground’s most-read stories in 2019

December 19, 2019

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

View of Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos, John Craig Freeman, augmented reality public art. Southern Arizona, USA. 2012 – Present. Image supplied.
Politics

Protest and assembly in the augmented city

By Sara Dean — 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

Driverless vehicles and pedestrians don't mix
Transport

Driverless vehicles and pedestrians don’t mix. So how do we re-arrange our cities?

By Peter Newman — November 28, 2019

The remnants of Mount Kilimanjaro's fabled fields of snow and ice, as seen from space in 2012. Image: NASA Earth Observatory
Environment

How to design with nature now?

By Andrew Revkin — November 27, 2019

The rise of privately-owned public space has brought with it greater private security surveillance of public activity.
Public domain

Wrong division: The rise of privately-owned public space

By Claire Martin — November 25, 2019

Professor David Bowman, pyrogeographer.
Environment

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

By Foreground — November 14, 2019

National Indigenous Fire Workshop. Cape York 2014 at Steve Irwin Wildfire Reserve, hosted by Taepithiggi people, Mapoon Land and Sea Rangers.
Culture

Cultural burning can be a vital fire management tool

By The Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation — November 13, 2019

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