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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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13 Sep 2022
From material extraction to material stewardship: Living Cities Forum 2022 panel discussion - foreground.com.au/cities/fro…
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Scott Ludlam@Scottludlam
21 Jul 2022
never give up 🖤
Save Our Songlines@SaveBurrup
21 Jul 2022
Tanya Plibersek has intervened and put a temporary pause on the Perdaman urea plant! Perdaman's plans would damage our cultural heritage at Murujuga through rock art removals, industrial pollution and landscape desecration. Now, @tanya_plibersek must stop this project for good.
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Material sleuth: Jane Mah Hutton and the hidden world of landscape supply chains - foreground.com.au/agricultur…
Vo Trong Nghia calls for architecture to ‘transform itself from a source of pollution to a reason for hope.’ @VTNArchitects foreground.com.au/parks-plac…
Bamboo rising: Vo Trong Nghia reimagines an ancient ‘green steel’ - foreground.com.au/parks-plac…
"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 foreground.com.au/environmen…
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Time to rethink Australia's depletion economy - foreground.com.au/environmen…
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The Circular@TheCircular_
17 May 2022
'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 bit.ly/3swq2PI

Edition 23

The Circular keeps the best new Australian non-fiction in circulation; essays, interviews, reviews, features and more.

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Infrastructure Australia’s narrow remit is distorting cities - foreground.com.au/planning-p…
Kudzilla: An ethnobotanical monster myth - foreground.com.au/agricultur…
Unmowing - foreground.com.au/environmen…
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Finding life in places for the dead: The future of cemetery design - foreground.com.au/parks-plac…
Finding life in places for the dead: The future of cemetery design - foreground.com.au/parks-plac…
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How city planning privileges the (in)vested few - foreground.com.au/planning-p…
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Room to grow: Green urban spaces in a subtropical city - foreground.com.au/parks-plac…
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Play for all: Readapting a civic space in the heart of Randwick - foreground.com.au/parks-plac…
Slowing down on Country: Naturalising Melbourne’s waterways - foreground.com.au/agricultur…
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Astroturf urbanism: The post-pandemic city's empty heart - foreground.com.au/planning-p…

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'Doing density differently': AILA WA awards a new landscape-led approach to infill housing - foreground.com.au/culture/do…
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Unsolicited urbanism: The legacy of closed-door planning behind Barangaroo - foreground.com.au/planning-p…
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