Cities

New Australian government reports show that it's time to change direction with infrastructure spending. Photo: Tim Foster
Planning & policy

Foreground Weekly Review: Australia’s infrastructure crisis is not about roads

by —August 21, 2019

The federal government has updated the National Cities Performance Framework Dashboard, including new measures for major city transport infrastructure performance. What do these tell us of Australia's urbanity? Photo: Trent Szmolnik
Planning & policy

New infrastructure performance measures for Australian cities questioned

by , —August 19, 2019

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
Culture

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
Parks & places

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

by —August 8, 2019

Agriculture & environment

Foreground Weekly Review: The trees and the woods

by —August 6, 2019

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

Green Infrastructure and the creative future of carbon capture

by —July 26, 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
Planning & policy

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

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
Culture

Foreground weekly review: NAIDOC week

by —July 10, 2019

The exemplary campus design of Taylor Cullity Lethlean's Eastern Precinct Landscape received an Award of Excellence in the 2019 AILA Victoria Awards. Photo: Will Salter
Culture

These five campus designs are changing the way students value university

by —June 27, 2019

Detail of Canberra plan submitted to the Canberra design competition by the Griffins – "View from the summit of Mount Ainslie".
Parks & places

Remaking Lost Connections: a timely call to rethink the future of the city

by —May 16, 2019

Joost with one of many experiments and collaborators. Testing non-toxic straw bale insulation with the CSIRO. Photo: courtesy of Joost Bakker
Agriculture & environment

Fertile ground for change: Joost Bakker tackles the toxic city

by —March 7, 2019