A "ghost city" – artist's impression of Ion Idriess' never realised proposal to flood and urbanise Australia's Lake Eyre.
Cities

The spectre of failure haunts Australia’s city-makers. Why do they keep getting it so wrong?

By — January 17, 2019

The many abandoned mines throughout Australia offer challenges to reimagining future landscape use.
Public domain

Afterlife of the mine: lessons in how towns remake challenging sites

By — January 10, 2019

Europe’s night lighting as captured by European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet. Image : ESA
Technology

Data Cities: how post-internet technology is changing the way we design our world

By — January 7, 2019

Gender equality in landscape architecture is improving, but very slowly.
Culture

Landscape architecture’s gender gap revealed in new report

By — December 21, 2018

Copenhagen residents enjoy the Islands Brygge Harbour Bath, designed by BIG and JDS Architects.
Cities

Take ten: Foreground’s most read stories in 2018

By — December 19, 2018

Litter traps on the Yarra River capture tonnes of waste from entering the nearby bay.
Environment

Treating the toxic city

By — December 13, 2018

Foreshore Park artists impression Image: The Walker Group
Cities

The Foreground five: Our most-read stories for November 2018

By — December 10, 2018

The Piano Mill, a musical instrument meets building.
Culture

The Piano Mill: In remote rural Australia, a living culture builds on the musical bones of the past

By — December 7, 2018

Housing in suburbia, Brisbane. Image: Tatiana Gerus
Culture

Suburbanism: for most of us, the ’burbs are home; it’s time to celebrate them

By — November 29, 2018

The New York High Line: The apotheosis of green gentrification? Image: David Berkowitz
Public domain

Green gentrification and how to avoid it

By — November 29, 2018

Cairns foreshore against a backdrop of the Lamb Range and its tropical forest Image: Jorge Lascar
Planning

“Resort tourism meets rainforest feral”? It’s time to rethink the tropical city

By — November 28, 2018

Toondah Harbour artists impression Image: The Walker Group
Environment

Hostile pave-over: development threatens fragile eco-systems along Queensland’s coast

By — November 15, 2018