Cities

Making cities for people with Jan Gehl

by Alexander Maxwell-Anderson—May 15, 2021

Vauban in Freigburg, Germany, is celebrated internationally as a ‘green’ neighbourhood. Image: Claire 7373

(Re)Building cities from the neighbourhood up

by Chris ten Dam, Edwin Buitelaar, Maarten Hajer, Martijn van den Hurk, Peter Pelzer—April 9, 2021

In Australia, the single largest danger to children is a world made for and of cars. Image: SLV Collection

Planning & policy

Petrol-powered planning: Car parks, COVID-19 and the future of urban retail (part 2)

by Elizabeth Taylor—October 13, 2020

Berlin is a city of nooks and cannies, in which people have made small reclamations of public space. Image: Jon Mountjoy

Squats, squares and city plans: Berlin by accident and design

by Mitra Anderson-Oliver—October 6, 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 Rachel Iampolski—May 13, 2020

Wildlife around the world over are creeping back into cities deserted due to COVID-19. Image: Jie Huang

Agriculture & environment

Where the wild things are: nature responds as coronavirus keeps humans indoors

by Alex Kusmanoff, Brendan Wintle, Casey Visintin, Freya Thomas, Georgia Garrard, Katherine Berthon, Lee Harrison, Matthew Selinske, Sarah Bekessy, Thami Croeser—April 16, 2020

A new study finds access to green, natural spaces was non-negotiable for families living in apartments.

Planning & policy

High-rise families rely on child-friendly neighbourhoods

by Elyse Warner, Fiona Andrews—January 31, 2020

The endangered southern brown bandicoot is doing well in urban wildlife corridors created by infrastructure provision in Melbourne's suburbs. Photo: John O'Neill

Agriculture & environment

Endangered bandicoots survive and thrive in urban sprawl

by Lucy Smith—January 9, 2020

A dead branch of a Eucalyptus camaldulensis (river red gum) plays pitstop for assorted bird life. Photo: Rexness

Agriculture & environment

What good is a dead tree?

by Jo Russell-Clarke—January 9, 2020

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

Planning & policy

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

by Foreground—December 12, 2019

Professor David Bowman, pyrogeographer.

Agriculture & environment

Pyrogeographer David Bowman on the art and science of living with fire

by Foreground—November 14, 2019