Jubilee of Trees!

A successful community planting day was undertaken as part of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Celebration. Native trees of Kurilpa, as well as some productive trees and a variety of shrubs were planted by residents on Sunday the 25th of JUNE 2023, in Beaconsfield reserve at Highgate Hill, Queensland. A Queen’s Jubilee plaque and a […]

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The Beauy Hub comes to life

During April and May Scenic Rim community members visited ‘The Beauy Hub’ in Brisbane Street to see large scale designs and talk directly with engineers, architects and Council officers about the revitalisation of Beaudesert’s town centre. Scenic Rim Mayor Greg Christensen said the feedback from community members who visited one of the 24 open sessions has […]

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In The Westender

John Mongard has been involved in shaping his local neighbourhood and main street over the last 25 years, commencing with his highly influential streetscape works to Boundary Street in West End ,the much loved inner city neighbourhood in Brisbane, Queensland. In Westender magazine, John discusses positive ideas and actions for the future. Read the full […]

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2 degrees: up close and personal

When young people protest on the street and tell us that we are destroying their future due to our failure to act on climate change, we know we have really ignored all the signs. Who cares about climate change? We are numb to the issue because we are daunted by its size and extent. We […]

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The Green Space Strategy

The big idea in our strategy is that we can reclaim at least 11 hectares of unused public spaces to create the public realm that the community needs now and into the future. This space is available now on unused road reserves and crown lands within the peninsula and should be used to build the […]

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The parsley, the pig and the farm

Is it a myth that Australia’s cities are amongst the most liveable in the world? That tag may be true for the lucky people who live within a 10 kilometre radius of each city. All our ‘sustainable’ cities are quite nice within their core. Outside of that core we appear to have failed to make […]

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Plain Land: Killing Places Slowly

Welcome to Plainland. Plainland is on a plain designated for the growth of Brisbane. It has a shopping centre off the highway and sits amongst the cows of surrounding grazing land. Plainland is plain: the cost of house and land dictate it. A bold entry statement and a path to the shops are civic flourishes. […]

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Unfolding space

How  a space unfolds into a place is a mystery. What ingredients are required to make our cities valued? We go about our daily lives and the things we touch and feel remind us of who we are and where we belong. For most of us the things we care about are actually small and […]

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