urban policy

The award-winning Oxley Creek Transformation Master Plan is an ambitious strategic document that makes the most of water as a shared social, economic and environmental asset. Image: Lat27
Agriculture & environment

Water wins in AILA Queensland awards

by —September 5, 2019

The Murray-Darling Basin, Australia's food bowl, had yet another poor season, with less than half its typical rain. Photo: Holder Link
Agriculture & environment

Foreground Weekly Review: water wars

by —September 3, 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 —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 , —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 —August 8, 2019

Agriculture & environment

Foreground Weekly Review: The trees and the woods

by —August 6, 2019

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

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

by —August 1, 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 —July 26, 2019

Road infrastructure dominates government spending. Part of the 33km M4 Western Motorway outside Parramatta widened as part of Sydney's WestConnex scheme. Photo: Beau Giles
Planning & policy

Foreground Weekly Review: Federal Minister for Roads?

by —July 17, 2019

The authors of the Burra Charter at Burra, South Australia in 1979: Jane Lennon, Peter Forrest, Jim Kerr, Josephine Flood, John Mulvaney and Peter Watts. Photo supplied by author with permission.
Culture

Forty years of the Burra Charter and Australia’s heritage vision

by —July 11, 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
Culture

These five campus designs are changing the way students value university

by —June 27, 2019

Melbourne and Sydney are the only Australian cities that part of the 100 Resilient Cities network. Photo: Wolf Zimmermenn
Planning & policy

What next after 100 Resilient Cities funding ends?

by , , , —June 13, 2019