Foreground - Page 20 of 40 - Cities, places and the people who make them

Libby Gallagher demonstrates that statistics and percentages matter

To make better streets, we must first measure them

by Foreground—August 23, 2018

Darebin Yarra Trail Link by VicRoads Urban Design Team and VicRoads Structural Design Team. Image: Emma Cross

More bike paths like these, please

by Foreground—August 17, 2018

Would cities benefit from more autonomous governance? Image by Beau Giles.

Planning & policy

Do Australian cities need major governance reform?

by Marcus Spiller—August 16, 2018

A Starship robot delivery unit on the footpath.

The Foreground five: July’s most-read stories

by Foreground—August 2, 2018

Willunga Main Street Project by Wax Design. Image: Dan Schultz

Stories of place: street design’s evocative potential

by Leanne Amodeo—July 31, 2018

Sydney skyline - Australian cities need landscape architecture graduates, but they are in short supply in local labour markets.

Is Australia facing a looming shortfall of landscape architects?

by Foreground—July 30, 2018

Gordon Ford. Image: SLV pictures collection ( photographer unknown)

Atlas of memory: Gordon Ford’s natural Australian garden

by Briony Downes—July 26, 2018

Optus Stadium Park on the Burswood Peninsula. Image: Peter Bennetts

Stadium as urban catalyst: can Optus Stadium Park revitalise Perth’s Burswood Peninsula?

by Foreground—July 24, 2018

Cottesloe beach, Perth.

Agriculture & environment

Urban oceans: our cities are radically transforming the marine environment

by Charity Edwards—July 19, 2018

Planning & policy

The politics of pop-ups: tactical urbanism in post-quake Christchurch

by Barnaby Bennett—July 12, 2018

Paris has managed to clean up its waterways, how did they do it? Image: Lea Marzloff

Foreground reads: our picks from around the web in July

by Foreground—July 11, 2018

A woman walking in a night street in Japan.

What will the footpath of the future look like?

by David Levinson—July 11, 2018