Politics

View of Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos, John Craig Freeman, augmented reality public art. Southern Arizona, USA. 2012 – Present. Image supplied.

Protest and assembly in the augmented city

By Sara Dean — December 12, 2019

With the help of experts, communities in the suburbs, towns and and cities of Australia are taking control of their own neighborhoods to plan for climate change. Photo: Tom Rumble

From placemaking to place survival: Experts and the new community activism

By Foreground — December 12, 2019

The encampment of the student group Occupy Central with Love and Peace in Admiralty, Hong Kong, September 2014. Students defended themselves with umbrellas that evening when flooded with tear gas. Photo: Wing1990hk

The protest landscapes of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement

By Paige Anderson — November 7, 2019

Tim Flannery at the 2014 People's Climate March. September 2019: "[I] look back on my 20 years of climate activism as a colossal failure." Photo:Peter Campbell

Foreground Weekly Review: emergency response

By Foreground — September 19, 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

Foreground weekly review: NAIDOC week

By Foreground — July 10, 2019

Still from an animated time lapse of sea surface salinity and soil moisture from NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite: April 2015 to February 2019.

Foreground reads: our pick from around the web in May

By Foreground — May 29, 2019

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

By Phillip O'Neill — April 3, 2019

The night view of the Sydney Opera House that 94 percent of Australians want to see. Image: Diliff

The Sydney opera that nobody wants

By Foreground — October 9, 2018

Where to from here for City Deals, two years on and with new leadership?

Spills and city deals: where we go from here

By Paul Burton — September 6, 2018

Would cities benefit from more autonomous governance? Image by Beau Giles.

Do Australian cities need major governance reform?

By Marcus Spiller — August 16, 2018

The politics of pop-ups: tactical urbanism in post-quake Christchurch

By Barnaby Bennett — July 12, 2018

Copenhagen's Trekroner fort once defended the city from unwanted naval arrivals. Now the city's making plans to defend itself from the sea. Image: Stig Nygaard

Building urban resilience: Lessons from Melbourne and Copenhagen

By Foreground — April 5, 2018