The roads of many European, as well as Asian cities such as Bangok, are vibrant city spaces with diverse transport modes.
Transport

It’s time to move beyond the false binary of roads vs public transport

By — April 12, 2019

Long Island garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, features planted indigenous vegetation of the Lower Yarra River. Photo: Molonglo
Culture

It’s okay to garden if you listen to the landscape

By — April 5, 2019

2019 is the international year of indigenous languages. A favourite story this month suggests we learn the original names of Australian trees.
Environment

Foreground reads: our pick from around the web in March

By — April 4, 2019

Politics

Congestion-busting infrastructure plays catch-up on long-neglected needs

By — April 3, 2019

Traffic jams and congestion are a well-known outcome of poor political decisions to focus on road transport mobility over urban accessibility.
Transport

It’s the (political) economy, stupid: when it comes to urban transport, we’re doing it wrong

By , — March 29, 2019

The Toxic City panel, Melbourne Design Week 2019 - from left: Andrew Mackenzie, Ross HArding, Bonnie Herring, Joost Bakker, Craig Reucassel, SueAnne Ware, Daan Roosegarde
Cities

“Let’s make it boring”: How can resilient cities become the rule, not the exception?

By — March 21, 2019

Cities

The Foreground five: our most-read stories so far in 2019

By — March 14, 2019

Venus and the Pleiades or Seven Sisters. Photo: NASA
Culture

Venus and the Pleiades: A reflection on women in landscape architecture

By — March 8, 2019

Joost with one of many experiments and collaborators. Testing non-toxic straw bale insulation with the CSIRO. Photo: courtesy of Joost Bakker
Environment

Fertile ground for change: Joost Bakker tackles the toxic city

By — March 7, 2019

The 'upside-down' Yarra River / Birrarung flows through a city of 5 million people. New efforts aim to clean up its reputation along with its water.
Environment

Detoxing the river: toward a swimmable Yarra

By — March 1, 2019

Visible emissions are just one part of the rapid increase in toxic global air pollution. Photo: Veeterzy
Environment

Air pollution: the single greatest health risk of our century

By — February 26, 2019

Dark skies are vital to our wellbeing but they are increasingly rare. Photo: of Duane Hamacher, Wild Researchers UNSW by Tamara Dean
Cities

Killing us softly: the perils of light pollution

By — February 21, 2019