water sensitive urban design

Copenhagen's Trekroner fort once defended the city from unwanted naval arrivals. Now the city's making plans to defend itself from the sea. Image: Stig Nygaard
Planning & policy

Building urban resilience: Lessons from Melbourne and Copenhagen

by —April 5, 2018

Sydney Olympic Park's mangrove forests and wetlands are home to an abundance of biodiversity. Around it lies Sydney's encroaching urban development. Image: John Turnbull.
Planning & policy

Avoiding the buzz kill: mozzies, wetlands and public health

by —April 5, 2018

Abbotsford Convent Gardens, Melbourne.
Parks & places

Heritage at risk: Can Australia’s heritage gardens survive climate change?

by —March 5, 2018

Quzhou Luming Park by Turenscape.
Agriculture & environment

In China, groundwater is dropping rapidly. Could Kongjian Yu’s Sponge Cities prevent disaster?

by —February 28, 2018

Perth's sprinklers continue to drain aquafers at an alarming rate. Image: Thangaraj Kumaravel
Agriculture & environment

Watering the West: Perth’s thirsty history and dry future

by —February 22, 2018

Turenscape's Luming Park, Guzhou, China. Image: Turenscape
Agriculture & environment

Event – Living with Water: Design for uncertain times

by —February 19, 2018

Urban ecologist Sophie Golding at Sydney Park
Agriculture & environment

What have ants ever done for us?

by —March 9, 2017

The wafer thin line between the city and the subsurface. Guatemala City 2007. Image courtesy of Eric Haddox
Agriculture & environment

What lies beneath: The looming crisis in our groundwater systems

by —March 1, 2017