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Category: Planning & Design

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Why we need to make our cities more loveable and maybe quirky

by Adrian Lai, Meta Architecture 28 November 202328 November 2023
Posted inPlanning & Design

The Indigenous cultural knowledges co-designing campuses

by Andrew Saniga, University of Melbourne and Susan Holden, University of Queensland 31 August 202331 August 2023
Posted inSpinifex

Five ways to measure the social value of architecture and design in Australia

by Eilish Barry, Hayball 24 August 202325 August 2023
Ballarat, Australia, March 15, 2017: Exterior view of historic buildings in the rural Victorian historic gold mining town of Ballarat, Victoria, Autralia
Posted inPlanning & Design

Heritage has become one of our most polarising issues in urban planning – here’s an explainer of what it’s trying to do

by Anne Warr, Anne Warr Heritage Consulting 16 August 202321 August 2023
Posted inPlanning & Design

Housing affordability – planning is part of the solution

by Matt Collins, Planning Institute of Australia and John Brockhoff, Planning Institute of Australia 15 August 202315 August 2023
Posted inUrbanism

EVs may well be part of a low-carbon future but are we ignoring some inconvenient truths?

by Wendy Frew 1 August 202315 November 2023
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The secret is out on climate disasters, and we need a plan

by The Fifth Estate 27 July 202327 July 2023
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Lismore and Sydney: two housing markets, two slightly secret inaugural meetings

by Tina Perinotto 25 July 202325 July 2023
Posted inPlanning & Design

Interview: Rob Stokes on planning and housing and what you can’t undo

by Tina Perinotto 6 July 20237 July 2023
Posted inPlanning & Design

Planners are meeting in Adelaide – here’s what’s keeping them up at night

by Tina Perinotto 25 May 202325 May 2023
Posted inBuilding

World Green Building Council releases 20-pronged circular economy playbook

by Kate Burgess 10 May 202310 May 2023
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Posted inBuilding

Building code changes needed to fully electrify buildings, report finds

by Kate Burgess 28 April 202329 April 2023
Posted inUrbanism

Thinking bigger: what we can learn from the Dutch on sustainable planning

by Kate Burgess 13 April 202313 April 2023
Posted inPlanning & Design

How did your hood score in this new wellbeing index for Australia?

by Kate Burgess 13 April 202313 April 2023
Posted inSpinifex

Sustainable architecture and design: how to avoid the seven deadly sins

by Ben Caine 8 March 20238 March 2023
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Posted inUrbanism

Why NSW now has an Urban Design Association

by Philip Graus and Tanya Vincent 31 January 20238 February 2023
Posted inPlanning & Design

Design awards winners highlight sustainability, circular economy and community

Rose Mary Petrass journalist by Rose Mary Petrass 7 October 20227 October 2022
Posted inSpinifex

The NCC mandating 7 Star homes will cut the cost of living – but there’s more to be done

by Fiona Gray 31 August 20221 September 2022
Posted inBusiness & Politics

Big surprises in the new NSW sustainable buildings planning policy

by Andrew Sadauskas 29 August 202230 August 2022
Posted inGovernment/Regulations

City of Sydney adopts renewable energy targets for new developments

by Andrew Sadauskas 24 August 202224 August 2022
Posted inConstruction & Development

Victorian Premier’s Sustainability Awards: spotlight on construction materials and more

Rose Mary Petrass journalist by Rose Mary Petrass 16 August 202217 August 2022
Posted inGovernment/Regulations

Victorian inquiry calls for minimum apartment size and sustainability rules – but the HIA says no

by Andrew Sadauskas 2 August 20222 August 2022
Posted inBuilding

Seven inspiring seeds of thought from the Urban Greening event

by Andrew Sadauskas 1 August 20222 August 2022
Posted inPlanning & Design

How to rewild a premium residential project, with Mulpha’s Jan van der Bergh

Rose Mary Petrass journalist by Rose Mary Petrass 22 July 202222 July 2022
Posted inNews from the Front Desk

On how the built environment sector is about to be disrupted – $2 trillion a year for climate startups

by The Fifth Estate - our view 22 July 202222 July 2022
Posted inEnvironment

Australia’s environment is in a “poor and deteriorating state” – our built environment is a big culprit

by Andrew Sadauskas 19 July 202220 July 2022
Posted inArchitecture

Architecture round-up: here’s all the winners of recent awards across the country

Rose Mary Petrass journalist by Rose Mary Petrass 14 July 202214 July 2022
Posted inPlanning & Design

Renee Ingram from Sydney Water will be at Urban Greening. Here’s a taste of what she might say

by Tina Perinotto 13 July 202215 July 2022
Posted inPlanning & Design

Eric Sturman on the truth about keeping a tree alive

Rose Mary Petrass journalist by Rose Mary Petrass 12 July 202212 July 2022
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Here’s a tool to measure embodied carbon in structural design

Rose Mary Petrass journalist by Rose Mary Petrass 7 July 202211 July 2022

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