Landscape Architecture Australia, August 2015
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Hikoi
A Māori word whose meaning is difficult to translate has the potential to lead us to a new way of thinking.
Cooling a tropical city
A draft plan for Australia’s hottest capital city, Darwin, proposes a suite of measures to combat urban heat island effects in its central business district.
Newcastle: She’ll be right
Is Newcastle’s laid-back attitude to urban projects denying its potential?
On Working On Site
A conversation with landscape architect Kate Cullity leads Jo Russell-Clarke to reflect on how digital technologies affect our relationship with site.
Engaging the vacant
This self-initiated project in Portland, Oregon, transformed a vacant inner-urban lot into an immersive landscape experiment.
ParckFarm
Parckfarm is an interactive project in Brussels, Belgium that invites visitors to explore new park typologies through art installations, agricultural performances, workshops and community gardens.
Growing Society
Transforming the places we live in requires mutual responsibility and shared effort between communities of common interest.
A Dangerous Profession
Many regional and rural towns across Australia are experiencing slow but steady decline, but death is not inevitable.
Competitive Territory
The Power Street Loop design competition raises some pertinent questions about who has the say on our urban places.
E-Scape: Landscape and refugee influx
Can landscape design play a role in managing the new processes, patterns and rhythms brought about by refugee influx?