Foreground

News and analysis on cities, places and the people who make them, published in partnership with The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.

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From material extraction to material stewardship: Living Cities Forum 2022 panel discussion - https://t.co/WLXXL8KrFj

[Scott Ludlam @Scottludlam]

never give up 🖤

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Material sleuth: Jane Mah Hutton and the hidden world of landscape supply chains - https://t.co/e91LFv3Jlf

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Vo Trong Nghia calls for architecture to ‘transform itself from a source of pollution to a reason for hope.’ @VTNArchitects https://t.co/dHetVLPhLh

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Bamboo rising: Vo Trong Nghia reimagines an ancient ‘green steel’ - https://t.co/dHetVM7qZp

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"If the sticker price included the full cost of everything we build, then suddenly making things locally and sourcing materials locally would become much more attractive."—Joseph Grima, @joseph_grima https://t.co/Jqtxf2XCp8

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Time to rethink Australia's depletion economy - https://t.co/QUPWJOsdT4

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'Cities like Sydney are lacquered with so many impermeable layers of Western thinking...How can we, as designers, pick the scabs and allow the country to breathe again?'

- Alison Page on Indigenous design principles in @ForegroundNews
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Infrastructure Australia’s narrow remit is distorting cities - https://t.co/McfvPvnmtB

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Kudzilla: An ethnobotanical monster myth - https://t.co/Bgfp6p105y

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Unmowing - https://t.co/H2h1dEUZpz

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Finding life in places for the dead: The future of cemetery design - https://t.co/jRe4DoaqmY

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Finding life in places for the dead: The future of cemetery design - https://t.co/jRe4DoaqmY

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How city planning privileges the (in)vested few - https://t.co/ZRrS00yR0J

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Room to grow: Green urban spaces in a subtropical city - https://t.co/PknN1llqH6

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Play for all: Readapting a civic space in the heart of Randwick - https://t.co/dbRUIBpKEz

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Slowing down on Country: Naturalising Melbourne’s waterways - https://t.co/QYohzGm1Rn

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Astroturf urbanism: The post-pandemic city's empty heart - https://t.co/Yx9k1oD8qc

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'Doing density differently': AILA WA awards a new landscape-led approach to infill housing - https://t.co/S0TQWPeQzK

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Unsolicited urbanism: The legacy of closed-door planning behind Barangaroo - https://t.co/62015ivU6s