Edith Street ‘hums’ on a Saturday morning with the bustle of shopping and street chatting. This festive moment lasts for a few hours and is exactly the kind of ambience and energy which needs to flow into other parts of the town and into the evening. New civic spaces have now been created to assist […]
Read moreIntroduction The aim of this talk is to firstly convince you that we, as place makers, need to embrace a much more participatory way of building place, if we are to live in a more sociable future. Participatory design is relevant in the city, in the suburbs and in the country and leads us to […]
Read moreThe vast amount of water caught every day within our streets, car parks and footpaths is an unrecognised resource going to waste. In a country facing increasing pressure on its dwindling water resources, we should be recycling and harvesting these lost waters of our urban systems. In the town centre of Toowoomba we calculated once […]
Read moreDesigners: John Mongard, Landscape Architect/PoetSeth Remaut, Architecture GraduateBarbara Steiner, Landscape Architect/Environmental Artist Authors: Barbara Steiner, John Mongard Introduction Industrial landscapes are as much part of our cultural landscape as any highly aesthetic sculpture park, agricultural landscape or suburban agglomeration. Through the achievements of industry, science and technology, contemporary Western societies enjoy higher standards of living […]
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