A "ghost city" – artist's impression of Ion Idriess' never realised proposal to flood and urbanise Australia's Lake Eyre.
Culture

The spectre of failure haunts Australia’s city-makers. Why do they keep getting it so wrong?

by —January 17, 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

Europe’s night lighting as captured by European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet. Image : ESA
Technology

Data Cities: how post-internet technology is changing the way we design our world

by —January 7, 2019

Gender equality in landscape architecture is improving, but very slowly.
Culture

Landscape architecture’s gender gap revealed in new report

by —December 21, 2018

Copenhagen residents enjoy the Islands Brygge Harbour Bath, designed by BIG and JDS Architects.
Agriculture & environment

Take ten: Foreground’s most read stories in 2018

by —December 19, 2018

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

Foreshore Park artists impression Image: The Walker Group
Agriculture & environment

The Foreground five: Our most-read stories for November 2018

by —December 10, 2018

The Piano Mill, a musical instrument meets building.
Culture

The Piano Mill: In remote rural Australia, a living culture builds on the musical bones of the past

by —December 7, 2018

Housing in suburbia, Brisbane. Image: Tatiana Gerus
Culture

Suburbanism: for most of us, the ’burbs are home; it’s time to celebrate them

by , —November 29, 2018

The New York High Line: The apotheosis of green gentrification? Image: David Berkowitz
Parks & places

Green gentrification and how to avoid it

by —November 29, 2018

Cairns foreshore against a backdrop of the Lamb Range and its tropical forest Image: Jorge Lascar
Planning & policy

“Resort tourism meets rainforest feral”? It’s time to rethink the tropical city

by —November 28, 2018

Toondah Harbour artists impression Image: The Walker Group
Agriculture & environment

Hostile pave-over: development threatens fragile eco-systems along Queensland’s coast

by —November 15, 2018