Sydney

Object and spirituality: Building on Country

by Alison Page—May 21, 2021

Detail of Marion Mahony Griffin's 'Eucalyptus urnigera Tasmanian Scarlet Bark, sunset (Forest Portrait',) c1918. (c) Mary + Leigh Block Museum of Art.

Picturing paradise: Marion Mahony Griffin and Castlecrag

by Dr Anne Watson—February 8, 2021

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

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

Greater Western Sydney is home to the largest urban parkland in Australia, the subject of award-winning new design and planning. Image: TYRRELLSTUDIO

What does the future hold for Australia’s biggest urban park?

by Neena Bhandari—October 3, 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 David Levinson, Hao Wu—August 19, 2019

The heritage-listed Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge owe much to the land and waterscape of the harbour itself. A new study aims to increase listing of cultural landscapes. Photo: Trent Szmolnik

The Green Necklace: a new perspective on Sydney Harbour’s parklands

by Foreground—August 15, 2019

The view from Burragorang Lookout shows Lake Burragorang, impounded by Warragamba Dam in the valley below. Photo: popejon2

Agriculture & environment

Raising Warragamba Dam will do far more harm than good

by Penny Allan—July 5, 2019

Sydney's transport system is dominated by the car, despite global shifts to recognise the multiple benefits of walkability.

How can Sydney start a walking revolution to overthrow its killer cars?

by Barnaby Bennett—May 15, 2019

Rooftop gardens take green infrastructure to new heights. Image: Brett Boardman

Inventive urban greening: Sydney rises to the green infrastructure challenge

by Foreground—July 6, 2018

How important are big trees to help mitigate the impacts of climate change? Image: Teddy Mafia via Flickr cc

Why streets need trees: in conversation with Libby Gallagher

by Foreground—June 28, 2018

The suburbs around Sydney's harbour have been historic beneficiaries of the natural environment

Greener places, better lives, deeper pockets

by Rob Roggema—December 7, 2017