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A deceased oriental white eye bird – a casualty of Singapore's artificial light. Image courtesy of Zhao Renhui.
Culture

Richard Weller’s Atlas for the End of the World as We Know It

by Richard Weller, with Claire Hoch and Chieh Huang—April 21, 2017

Moonee Valley Urban Ecology Park Scenario, image courtesy of Zoe Metherell.
Agriculture & environment

Soft cities: Making room for nature in our urban future

by Amy K Hahs—April 20, 2017

Kunshan is the location of a flaghsip project with Monash University CRC for Water Sensitive Cities
Agriculture & environment

The big soak: China’s sponge city program

by Adrian McGregor—April 8, 2017

Councillor Andrea Reimer at the Green Cities Conference
Planning & policy

Power up: Andrea Reimer on Vancouver’s people-driven, green transformation

by Foreground—March 16, 2017

The University of Melbourne is planning to reduce emissions through on-campus energy projects by 20,000 tonnes of carbon per year.
Technology

University of Melbourne picks built environment measures over carbon offsets in sustainability plan

by Eisha Gupta—February 10, 2017

The CSIRO's Urban Living Lab will test new technologies in the "real world" of Sydney.
Planning & policy

CSIRO to turn 280 hectares of Sydney into testing ground for urban innovation

by Eisha Gupta—February 9, 2017

Daytime heat differential between a green suburb and a concrete downtown can be as much as 5 degrees
Planning & policy

When the heat is on, we need city-wide plans to keep cool

by Mathew Lipson and Melissa Hart—February 6, 2017

Parks & places

“We badly need a new vision for our cities”: Graeme Davison on city dreaming

by Maitiú Ward—October 27, 2016

Richard Weller Martin and Margy Meyerson Chair of Urbanism and Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
Culture

Richard Weller says it’s time to redesign our cities as “high performance ecological machines”

by Maitiú Ward—October 26, 2016

Agriculture & environment

Making our mark: a guide to the Anthropocene

by Andrew Mackenzie—October 25, 2016

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