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Vauban in Freigburg, Germany, is celebrated internationally as a ‘green’ neighbourhood. Image: Claire 7373

(Re)Building cities from the neighbourhood up

by Chris ten Dam, Edwin Buitelaar, Maarten Hajer, Martijn van den Hurk, Peter Pelzer—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 Wendy Steele—March 22, 2021

Jakarta sea level wall protection

Planning & policy

Abandoning Indonesia’s sinking mega city

by Etienne Turpin, Nashin Mahtani—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 Francis Markham, Fred Hooper, Grant Rigney, Lana D. Hartwig, Rene Woods, Sue Jackson—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.

Picturing paradise: Marion Mahony Griffin and Castlecrag

by Dr Anne Watson—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 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