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From material extraction to material stewardship: Living Cities Forum 2022 panel discussion - foreground.com.au/cities/fro…
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never give up 🖤
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.
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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'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 - foreground.com.au/planning-p…
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…
Room to grow: Green urban spaces in a subtropical city - foreground.com.au/parks-plac…
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…
Astroturf urbanism: The post-pandemic city's empty heart - foreground.com.au/planning-p…
'Doing density differently': AILA WA awards a new landscape-led approach to infill housing - foreground.com.au/culture/do…
Unsolicited urbanism: The legacy of closed-door planning behind Barangaroo - foreground.com.au/planning-p…