landscape

To design a play space, first take some children on a site visit
Parks & places

Penned in: How public space is failing our children

by —July 7, 2017

Darling Quarter by ASPECT Studios. Image: Florian Groehn.
Parks & places

Blurred Lines: landscapes that bridge the physical and virtual worlds

by —June 23, 2017

The pictureesque Bondi to Tamarama beach walk also doubles as a 'traumascape'. Throughout the '80s and '90s this became a place notorious for a series of high-profile gay hate crimes, with local gangs beating men, and in some cases, pushing them off cliffs to their death.
Culture

The city-as-palimpsest: A primer on ‘psychogeography’

by —June 22, 2017

Kings Park and Botanical Garden. Image: Tourism Western Australia.
Agriculture & environment

Western Australia’s flower power

by —June 21, 2017

McGregor Coxall's former BP site park has emerged from it's polluted past to become a contemporary post industrial harbour-front park.
Culture

Trains, planes and lawn mowers: Philip Coxall’s journey to landscape architecture

by —June 20, 2017

Houtan Park, Shanghai. A restorative design constructed wetlands over a former brownfield site. Image: Turrenscape.
Agriculture & environment

Beyond the desal’ plant: water security in a post-carbon world

by —June 8, 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 —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 —May 24, 2017

CSIRO grassfire experiment. Image courtesy of the CSIRO.
Agriculture & environment

Survival of the ‘ecologically literate’

by —May 23, 2017

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

Is it time to hug a hedge?

by —May 19, 2017

Little adventurers in discarded places.
Parks & places

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

by —May 17, 2017

San Juan Chamula procession, Mexico. Image courtesy of Wolfgang Sauber
Agriculture & environment

“Humanity needs nature”: Patricia O’Donnell on the UN Millennium Development Goals

by —May 3, 2017