toxic city

The Toxic City panel, Melbourne Design Week 2019 - from left: Andrew Mackenzie, Ross HArding, Bonnie Herring, Joost Bakker, Craig Reucassel, SueAnne Ware, Daan Roosegarde
Planning & policy

“Let’s make it boring”: How can resilient cities become the rule, not the exception?

by —March 21, 2019

Joost with one of many experiments and collaborators. Testing non-toxic straw bale insulation with the CSIRO. Photo: courtesy of Joost Bakker
Agriculture & environment

Fertile ground for change: Joost Bakker tackles the toxic city

by —March 7, 2019

The 'upside-down' Yarra River / Birrarung flows through a city of 5 million people. New efforts aim to clean up its reputation along with its water.
Agriculture & environment

Detoxing the river: toward a swimmable Yarra

by —March 1, 2019

Visible emissions are just one part of the rapid increase in toxic global air pollution. Photo: Veeterzy
Agriculture & environment

Air pollution: the single greatest health risk of our century

by —February 26, 2019

Dark skies are vital to our wellbeing but they are increasingly rare. Photo: of Duane Hamacher, Wild Researchers UNSW by Tamara Dean
Agriculture & environment

Killing us softly: the perils of light pollution

by —February 21, 2019

Powerplants is a design-led, multi-disciplinary phytoremediation research project at Sydney's White Bay Power Station. Photo: Jedidiah-Cranfield
Technology

Power Plants: Turning Brownfields Green

by —February 20, 2019

Toxic cemeteries are contributing to early deaths but examining the history of burial practices can teach us to live better. Photo: Eddie Howell
Agriculture & environment

Rethinking the landscape of death

by —February 7, 2019

Gentrification of inner city suburbs is occurring on old industrial sites. Fitzroy St, Victoria, Australia Photo: Foreground
Planning & policy

What lies beneath: To manage toxic contamination in cities, study their industrial histories

by , —February 4, 2019

Just 40 minutes from a city of 5 million people, the Western Treatment Plant provides a constructed wetland for over 100 bird species.
Agriculture & environment

In Australia, a sewage facility is now one of the world’s greatest bird habitats

by —January 30, 2019

The many abandoned mines throughout Australia offer challenges to reimagining future landscape use.
Agriculture & environment

Afterlife of the mine: lessons in how towns remake challenging sites

by , , —January 10, 2019

Litter traps on the Yarra River capture tonnes of waste from entering the nearby bay.
Agriculture & environment

Treating the toxic city

by —December 13, 2018