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Perth residents celebrate after waking to the news Australia had won the America's Cup. Image: National Archives of Australia.
Planning & policy

How did the America’s Cup instigate Perth’s green sand dunes?

by Daniel Martin and Jason Macarlino, Felix Joensson, Kate Hislop—June 15, 2017

Dr John Friedmann pictured in 2016. Image courtesy of UCLA.
Planning & policy

10 points of note about the late Dr John Friedmann

by Foreground—June 14, 2017

Was a skate park designed for 8-14-year-olds really going to bring in drugs and graffiti?
Parks & places

Against everything: The curious case of Rushcutters Bay skate park

by Alan Weedon—June 8, 2017

Townsville, Queensland. One of the first three beneficiaries of Turnbull's new city deals.
Planning & policy

City Deals helps fire up regional development

by Caroline Perkins—June 6, 2017

Chief Commissioner of the Greater Sydney Commission, Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO surveying Marrickville PS' freshly minted greens.
Parks & places

From asphalt jungle to edible landscape

by Foreground—June 2, 2017

A man looks out over Melbourne from Victoria Barracks. Image: John William Lindt (courtesy of the State Library of Victoria).
Culture

Legacies of Empire: Control by design

by Aaron Magro—May 24, 2017

Freshly planted hedges line Cleveland Street in Redfern, Sydney.
Agriculture & environment

Is it time to hug a hedge?

by Foreground—May 19, 2017

Children enjoying Paris' annual 'Paris-Plages', temporary beaches set up across the capital.
Planning & policy

Children and the city

by Foreground—May 17, 2017

Little adventurers in discarded places.
Parks & places

Finding the sublime in a city’s forgotten spaces: Part 1

by Helen Armstrong—May 17, 2017

Kara Walker’s 'A Subtlety, or the Marvellous Sugar Baby' (2014) for Creative Time, New York.
Culture

Disruptive design: placemaking in times of crisis

by Foreground—May 12, 2017

Sarah Hill, CEO of the Greater Sydney Commission.
Planning & policy

A tale of three Sydneys

by Foreground—May 11, 2017

Construction in Sydney's inner west.
Planning & policy

Budget 2017: The good, the bad and the murky

by Philip O'Neill and Marion Terrill—May 10, 2017

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