Melbourne

Free car parking doesn't build on the strengths of Melbourne's CBD, and might actually detract from them. Image: Berenice Melis
Planning & policy

Melbourne, it’s time to go big on a car-free recovery

by —December 2, 2020

New development encroaches on farmland in Melbourne's outer west. Image: Google Earth
Planning & policy

Marvellous no more: Melbourne’s planning failure

by —September 24, 2020

Quarry Hills Regional Parkland Landscape Master Plan retains outer metropolitan areas earmarked for redevelopment as walking trails.
Parks & places

Food for the sole: These walks are about much more than getting from A to B

by —July 8, 2020

The healing garden at Heide will be a sanctuary of sensory wonder.
Parks & places

A new garden at Melbourne’s Heide Museum turns ‘social distance’ to healing ends

by —May 14, 2020

Point cloud scan of the significant tree at Robin Boyd's 290 Walsh Street house. Image: Yazid Ninsalam
Planning & policy

Tree change: What happens when living heritage becomes dead wood?

by —March 17, 2020

A 150 year old White Oak collapses on the lawn of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, a victim of climate change stresses. Photo courtesy RBG
Parks & places

How the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria is saving flora from climate disasters

by —February 19, 2020

Prahran Square is a new kind of purposeful space for a suburb that previously had little public, open space.
Parks & places

Paved for the people: In Melbourne, a parking lot has become a public square

by —February 6, 2020

The Australian Institute of Landscape Architect's International Festival of Landscape Architecture – the square and the park – was held over two days in October to a capacity audience. Photo: David Hyde
Culture

The square and the park: a festival review

by —October 31, 2019

Winner of The Future Park design competition – The Gap by Marti Fooks, Claire Winsor, Suhas Vasudeva and Jacqueline Heggli.
Parks & places

The Power of Parks

by —October 17, 2019

Jordan Lacey, ambisonic recording in preparation for COLD. Photo: Alban Mannisi
Culture

Sound in the City: Translating Ambiance

by —September 13, 2019

The Dystopia vs Utopia immersive reality experience at EKKA will reveal possible streets of Brisbane in 2050. There are good and bad possibilities in how we use new technologies and deal with hotter, drier climates.
Parks & places

The Foreground five: our most-read stories for August

by —September 5, 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