Like other cities, Melbourne is growing. How will its squares and parks continue to provide for a fast-changing population? Flagstaff Gardens is one of a series of 19th century parks at the edge of central Melbourne. Photo: Bob T
Cities

The square & the park: an international festival

By — August 8, 2019

Green the Street at Brisbane's EKKA is hosting over 40 organisations and their ideas for community greening projects, including virtual reality visions of transformations. Image: Catherine Simpson. Roberts Day
Cities

It’s happening on the verge: community experiments in greening the streets

By — August 8, 2019

Cities

Foreground Weekly Review: The trees and the woods

By — August 6, 2019

Local residents enjoy public recreation facilities designed by Aspect Studios enabled by elevated rail. Photo: Peter Bennetts Photography
Cities

When it comes to urban infrastructure, big doesn’t have to mean bad

By — August 1, 2019

Green Infrastructure shares space beneath road infrastructure in the congested urban realm of Shanghai, China. Photo: Denys Nevozhai
Cities

Green Infrastructure and the creative future of carbon capture

By — July 26, 2019

Dove Lake in Tasmania, Australia's fastest-growing state for nature-based tourism. An AILA award-winning report on visitor impacts by Inspiring Place landscape architects helped protect the site from inappropriate development. Photo: Inspiring Place
Environment

Landscape architects are vital guides to Australia’s tourism growth

By — July 25, 2019

Environment

The farmers fighting climate change

By — July 22, 2019

Road infrastructure dominates government spending. Part of the 33km M4 Western Motorway outside Parramatta widened as part of Sydney's WestConnex scheme. Photo: Beau Giles
Cities

Foreground Weekly Review: Federal Minister for Roads?

By — July 17, 2019

The authors of the Burra Charter at Burra, South Australia in 1979: Jane Lennon, Peter Forrest, Jim Kerr, Josephine Flood, John Mulvaney and Peter Watts. Photo supplied by author with permission.
Culture

Forty years of the Burra Charter and Australia’s heritage vision

By — July 11, 2019

Charleville date farm: recycles all the town's wastewater through a wetland system.
Cities

The Foreground five: our most-read stories for June

By — July 11, 2019

Tjirbruki Munaintya Tjirbruki is an important Kaurna Creation Ancestor. The artwork translates his creation story into an aerial map, which includes Warriparinga, the Adelaide Coastline, Victor Harbor and Brukunga in the Adelaide Hills. Artwork: Aboriginal registered landscape architect and visual artist Paul Herzich
Politics

Foreground weekly review: NAIDOC week

By — July 10, 2019

The view from Burragorang Lookout shows Lake Burragorang, impounded by Warragamba Dam in the valley below. Photo: popejon2
Cities

Raising Warragamba Dam will do far more harm than good

By — July 5, 2019