public space

æResearch has shown experiences of public space are individual and unique. Women from different racial backgrounds and of different ages, sexuality, disabilities and socio-economic class have very different experiences.” Photo: Jake Ingle

Planning & policy

What does the ‘new normal’ look like for women’s safety in cities?

by Georgia May Johnson, Gill Mathewson, Nicole Kalms—August 11, 2020

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

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

by Jo Russell-Clarke—July 8, 2020

Social distancing restrictions bring threshold spaces into focus as we have conversations at the gate, on the balcony and over the fence. Image: Skiathos, Greece

Planning & policy

Life on the edges: How ‘threshold spaces’ keep us connected despite COVID-19

by Rachel Iampolski—May 13, 2020

Public space restrictions could intensify inequalities. Image: Alexander Schimmeck

Planning & policy

Public space restrictions hurt vulnerable populations the most

by Kurt Iveson—April 22, 2020

Signage in public parks in Florida encourages distance between people. Image: Jordan Hopkins

Parks in a time of pandemic

by Jo Russell-Clarke—March 25, 2020

Linda Corkery is a Director of Corkery Consulting and Professor in the Landscape Architecture Program, Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW.

Learning from the landscape: Linda Corkery

by Jo Russell-Clarke—March 5, 2020

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

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

by Jo Russell-Clarke—February 6, 2020

Paul Thompson, plantsman, gardener and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.

Nurturing the land: Paul Thompson

by Jo Russell-Clarke—January 24, 2020

View of Border Memorial: Frontera de los Muertos, John Craig Freeman, augmented reality public art. Southern Arizona, USA. 2012 – Present. Image supplied.

Protest and assembly in the augmented city

by Sara Dean—December 12, 2019

Dancer and choreographer Amrita Hepi moves in the landscape – part of a video installation produced with Claire Winsor funded by the TCL Kevin Taylor Legacy. Image: videographer Peter Drew

Cultural movement: what can dance tell us about place?

by Foreground—November 28, 2019

The encampment of the student group Occupy Central with Love and Peace in Admiralty, Hong Kong, September 2014. Students defended themselves with umbrellas that evening when flooded with tear gas. Photo: Wing1990hk

Planning & policy

The protest landscapes of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement

by Paige Anderson—November 7, 2019

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

The square and the park: a festival review

by Michael Smith—October 31, 2019