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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

New development encroaches on farmland in Melbourne's outer west. Image: Google Earth

Planning & policy

Marvellous no more: Melbourne’s planning failure

by Bruce Echberg—September 24, 2020

Sunvale Community Park, Sunshine, for Brimbank City Council, local government in Sunshine. Image: Emma Cross

Neighbourhood squared

by Andy Fergus—September 23, 2020

Mangroves in Sungei Buloh Nature Park, Singapore

Agriculture & environment

“Streamlined” environmental protections, strangled wetlands

September 7, 2020

Darwin Civic and State Square Masterplan. Image: TCL

Diverse by design

by Jo Russell-Clarke—September 1, 2020

Bushfire in Australia.

Agriculture & environment

Flume country

by Christine Hansen—August 31, 2020

Landscapology and Bligh Tanner has transformed a drain into a living waterway at Small Creek, Ipswich. Image: Alan Hoban

Foreground’s most-read: Top stories for July 2020

by Foreground—August 11, 2020

æResearch has shown experiences of public space are individual and unique. Women from different racial backgrounds and of different ages, sexuality, disabilities and socio-economic class have very different experiences.” Photo: Jake Ingle

Planning & policy

What does the ‘new normal’ look like for women’s safety in cities?

by Georgia May Johnson, Gill Mathewson, Nicole Kalms—August 11, 2020

A new landmark community-focused Centre in Rubibi (Broome) brings together culture, Country, public art and community. Image: Nyamba-Buru-Yawuru

Common knowledge: culture embedded in the design process

by Rosie Halsmith—August 7, 2020