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Agriculture & environment

Material sleuth: Jane Mah Hutton and the hidden world of landscape supply chains

by SueAnne Ware—July 19, 2022

The GWPQ Welcome Centre by Vo Trong Nghia.
Parks & places

Bamboo rising: Vo Trong Nghia reimagines an ancient ‘green steel’

by Helen Norrie, Jed Long—July 12, 2022

Australia's exploitation of its finite resources is unsustainable. Iron Ore Mine, Pilbara, Western Australia. Image: Ian Waldie/Bloomberg
Environment

Designing without depletion: Joseph Grima’s non-extractive architecture

July 7, 2022

Bicycle stand on fake grass, Federation Square, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (2009).
Planning & policy

Astroturf urbanism: The post-pandemic city’s empty heart

by Marcus Westbury—July 13, 2021

Regenerative farmer Ray Thompson standing on a salt scald on a farm in New South Wales.
Agriculture & environment

Re-designing farming

by Cameron Muir—February 4, 2021

Richard Tipping's ‘Watermark’ sculpture at the Brisbane Powerhouse, commemorating the 1974 floods, inundated by flood waters at New Farm, 2011. Image: John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
Planning & policy

The flood: Designing cities for deluge

by Amalie Wright—November 20, 2020

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

Shoppers in Melbourne's Bourke Street battle with cars for street space, c.1948. Image: State Library of Victoria archives
Planning & policy

Street fight: Car parks, COVID-19 and the future of urban retail (part 1)

by Elizabeth Taylor—September 30, 2020

Bushfire in Australia.
Agriculture & environment

Flume country

by Christine Hansen—August 31, 2020

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