urban design

Professor Billie Giles-Corti advocates for healthy city design
Planning

What can the coronavirus teach us about healthy cities?

By , — March 24, 2020

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

Learning from the landscape: Linda Corkery

By — March 5, 2020

A new study finds access to green, natural spaces was non-negotiable for families living in apartments.
Planning

High-rise families rely on child-friendly neighbourhoods

By , — January 31, 2020

A tapestry of richly varied planting is distributed around and between Bendigo Hospital seating.
Cities

Designing the healthy city

By — January 24, 2020

The endangered southern brown bandicoot is doing well in urban wildlife corridors created by infrastructure provision in Melbourne's suburbs. Photo: John O'Neill
Cities

Endangered bandicoots survive and thrive in urban sprawl

By — January 9, 2020

With the help of experts, communities in the suburbs, towns and and cities of Australia are taking control of their own neighborhoods to plan for climate change. Photo: Tom Rumble
Politics

From placemaking to place survival: Experts and the new community activism

By — December 12, 2019

Professor David Bowman, pyrogeographer.
Environment

Pyrogeographer David Bowman on the art and science of living with fire

By — November 14, 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
Culture

The square and the park: a festival review

By — October 31, 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
Cities

New infrastructure performance measures for Australian cities questioned

By , — 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
Cities

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

By — August 8, 2019

Local residents enjoy public recreation facilities designed by Aspect Studios enabled by elevated rail. Photo: Peter Bennetts Photography
Cities

When it comes to urban infrastructure, big doesn’t have to mean bad

By — August 1, 2019

The exemplary campus design of Taylor Cullity Lethlean's Eastern Precinct Landscape received an Award of Excellence in the 2019 AILA Victoria Awards. Photo: Will Salter
Cities

These five campus designs are changing the way students value university

By — June 27, 2019