Collaborative planning

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 —December 12, 2019

Urban and regional planner Phoebe Harrison believes that people are ready for proactive engagement and doing things differently. Photo: Antenna
Planning & policy

The politics of value: good planning makes dollars and sense

by —October 31, 2019

Greater Western Sydney is home to the largest urban parkland in Australia, the subject of award-winning new design and planning. Image: TYRRELLSTUDIO
Parks & places

What does the future hold for Australia’s biggest urban park?

by —October 3, 2019

Under threat from climate change, the Bubbler is a natural spring and important cultural site for the Arabana people of the Kathi Thanda region. Photo: Melissa Nursey-Bray
Culture

Not passive victims: Indigenous Australians respond to climate change

by —August 30, 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

Planning & policy

In Melbourne, collaborative development is turning grey streets green

by —May 2, 2019

Traffic jams and congestion are a well-known outcome of poor political decisions to focus on road transport mobility over urban accessibility.
Transport

It’s the (political) economy, stupid: when it comes to urban transport, we’re doing it wrong

by , —March 29, 2019

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

Do Australian cities need major governance reform?

by —August 16, 2018

interventions to get people to rediscover their creek corridor. Image: Supplied
Parks & places

Local heroes: small projects with big ambitions for public space

by —June 22, 2018

Constitution Avenue is one of Canberra's prime avenues.
Parks & places

After the Griffins: reclaiming Canberra’s streets for people

by —June 8, 2018

Urban planners need to accept the Indigenous history of Australian cities. Image: Newtown Graffiti
Planning & policy

Indigenous communities are reworking urban planning, but planners need to accept their history

by , —May 17, 2018

A new vision for Point Grey, Lorne
Agriculture & environment

Bush Projects to bring a little bit of wild back to Lorne foreshore

by —May 17, 2018