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Fish Lane Town Square, winner of 2021 AILA QLD Award of Excellence for Civic Landscape. Photo: Scott Burrows
Parks & places

Room to grow: Green urban spaces in a subtropical city

by Rosemary Kennedy—September 13, 2021

Richard Tipping's ‘Watermark’ sculpture at the Brisbane Powerhouse, commemorating the 1974 floods, inundated by flood waters at New Farm, 2011. Image: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
Planning & policy

The flood: Designing cities for deluge

by Amalie Wright—November 20, 2020

NSW's Living Classroom site wraps around the town of Bingara. The regenerative community farm repurposes a grazed common.
Agriculture & environment

The parsley, the pig and the farm

by John Mongard—November 16, 2017

The University of Queensland's synthetic turf ground. Image: Christopher Frederick Jones.
Planning & policy

Turf wars

by Foreground—August 31, 2017

Roma Street Children's Garden. Image: Lat27.
Parks & places

Garden of delight: a botanical playground brings joy to inner city Brisbane

by Foreground—July 13, 2017

Sydney commuters on the way to Martin Place station.
Planning & policy

Are Australia’s cities equipped to handle its impending population boom?

by Glen Searle—July 6, 2017

Flooding of Rocklea, a suburb bordering the Oxley Creek catchment area, 1930.
Planning & policy

Drought and flood forgotten in development vision for 15-kilometre stretch of Brisbane waterway

by Eisha Gupta—December 22, 2016

Planning & policy

“Two worlds”: Why Australia’s most walkable cities are home to some of its least walkable suburbs

by Renee Thompson—November 11, 2016

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