In Brief Australia’s bushfire system still runs on reaction: firefighting, evacuation and recovery. Predictive bushfire planning offers a different approach it maps how vegetation fuel ages across a landscape over time, not just how much fuel exists. A method...
South Australia broke its housing approval record in 2025 — 15,227 homes approved, up 22 percent on the previous year. Most of those homes are going into Adelaide’s most disadvantaged, heat-exposed suburbs. Without parallel investment in jobs, canopy, and...
Is Melbourne General Cemetery an urban asset or just a liability for Melbourne City Council? We wrote this article after years of working across cemetery landscapes in Australia and studying how other countries plan memorial grounds. A clear pattern emerged. In Europe...
First Nations knowledge in Australian urban planning has moved from the margins of professional debate into the centre of climate adaptation research. Yet the practice has not kept pace with the evidence. First Nations Australians have actively managed this continent ...
Why Kids Need to Play in Nature and What Most Playgrounds Get Completely Wrong There’s a certain kind of silence that settles over a child when they’re truly absorbed in something. Head down. Fingers working. Completely gone from the world of adults,...
Introduction: Designing for Uncertainty In an era defined by climate crisis, population changes, environmental breakdown, and political instability, the traditional urban “masterplan” feels outdated (Marshall & Caliskan, 2011; UN-Habitat, 2020). Cities...
