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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 Jo Russell-Clarke—July 8, 2020

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 Foreground—October 17, 2019

New Australian government reports show that it's time to change direction with infrastructure spending. Photo: Tim Foster
Planning & policy

Foreground Weekly Review: Australia’s infrastructure crisis is not about roads

by Foreground—August 21, 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

Green the Street at Brisbane's EKKA is hosting over 40 organisations and their ideas for community greening projects, including virtual reality visions of transformations. Image: Catherine Simpson. Roberts Day
Parks & places

It’s happening on the verge: community experiments in greening the streets

by Foreground—August 8, 2019

Green Infrastructure shares space beneath road infrastructure in the congested urban realm of Shanghai, China. Photo: Denys Nevozhai
Technology

Green Infrastructure and the creative future of carbon capture

by Foreground—July 26, 2019

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

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

by Barnaby Bennett—May 15, 2019

Traffic jams and congestion are a well-known outcome of poor political decisions to focus on road transport mobility over urban accessibility.
Transport

It’s the (political) economy, stupid: when it comes to urban transport, we’re doing it wrong

by David A King, David Levinson—March 29, 2019

Willunga Main Street Project by Wax Design. Image: Dan Schultz
Culture

Stories of place: street design’s evocative potential

by Leanne Amodeo—July 31, 2018

Planning & policy

The politics of pop-ups: tactical urbanism in post-quake Christchurch

by Barnaby Bennett—July 12, 2018

A woman walking in a night street in Japan.
Transport

What will the footpath of the future look like?

by David Levinson—July 11, 2018

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

Why streets need trees: in conversation with Libby Gallagher

by Foreground—June 28, 2018

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