UDFQ 105
28 posts
Native grasslands in urban areas
The Victorian National Parks Association, with support from the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, has developed design guidelines to support native grasslands in urban areas. We are now seeking feedback…
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Double edge action
Good public transport maps, directions and support material, like most good swords, are double edge instruments. In a previous post, I related Sandra’s story of near terror of using Brisbane’s…
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From Northern Trenches
I wonder if it’s a pivotal moment about how we do better cities up here…well, half way up the Pacific coast. And it has to do with design panels and…
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Australia Award for Urban Design
Have you been involved in a recent project demonstrating excellence and innovation in all elements of urban design? Nominations for the 2014 Australia Award for Urban Design are now open…
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Year in review: go west young designer!
‘Western Australia has a culture of Urban Design and Collaboration that is unique in Australia’ – so says Melbourne-based Mike Day who was one of the WA Urban Design Chapter’s…
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Urban Design Forum – the transition continues
The recent publication of ‘Urban Voices – celebrating urban design in Australia’ recognised the achievement of 100 editions of the Urban Design Forum quarterly but, importantly, also made it clear…
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Conferences etc
Industrious ecologies: reclaiming the subjectivity of the city 31 May 2014, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK Please send your abstract (300 words) till 15 April 2014 to [email protected] For more information…
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Is coffee the key to good urban design?
Particularly in Melbourne, but also in our other cities, visitors are staggered by how many opportunities there are to drink coffee. Nearly every urban design proposal seems to include a…
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Have a wry laugh!
My, how things change – not! Courtesy of the wisdom and humour of Michael Leunig, we can look back to the early 1980s and the early 2000s – and see…
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