A seating sketch of Openwork's healing garden shows a tree at the centre of a gathering zone. Image: Openwork
Parks & places

The Foreground five: May’s most-read stories

by —June 3, 2020

De-activated play equipment in London during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
Planning & policy

Rebuilding the post-pandemic city: Three quick wins with long term returns

by —May 28, 2020

Gospers Mountain, NSW, December 2019. Photo: Meganesia via Wikimedia Commons
Agriculture & environment

Australia, you have unfinished business. It’s time to let our ‘fire people’ care for this land

by , —May 28, 2020

Encouraging the development of housing with overlooking of play spaces makes for safer, better connected neighbourhoods.
Planning & policy

Children are an ‘indicator species’; build well for them and we build well for everybody

by —May 28, 2020

The healing garden at Heide will be a sanctuary of sensory wonder.
Parks & places

A new garden at Melbourne’s Heide Museum turns ‘social distance’ to healing ends

by —May 14, 2020

Social distancing restrictions bring threshold spaces into focus as we have conversations at the gate, on the balcony and over the fence. Image: Skiathos, Greece
Planning & policy

Life on the edges: How ‘threshold spaces’ keep us connected despite COVID-19

by —May 13, 2020

Cycling is emerging as the best way to get around during the pandemic. Image: Mitchell Luo
Planning & policy

The Foreground five: April’s most-read stories

by —May 12, 2020

Jack Mundey at the Help Save Our Public Housing Rally in The Domain, Sydney, 1997. Image: City of Sydney Archives, photographer unknown.
Planning & policy

Australia’s cities owe much of their surviving heritage to Jack Mundey

by —May 12, 2020

Film recommendations for landscape geeks and design tragics. Image: The Autowitch
Culture

Self-isolation survival pack: What to watch

by —April 30, 2020

The Gwelup Secret Garden in Perth could soon become a protected weedscape.
Agriculture & environment

The wonder of weedscapes

by —April 30, 2020

Foreground's guide to online lectures, VR experiences, podcasts and short courses to hold you through the pandemic lockdown. Image: Siora Photography
Culture

Self-isolation survival pack: Brainfood to beat the COVID-19 blues

by —April 23, 2020

Public space restrictions could intensify inequalities. Image: Alexander Schimmeck
Planning & policy

Public space restrictions hurt vulnerable populations the most

by —April 22, 2020