- Kate Hislop – ‘Perth: Always already suburban’
The history of settlement at Swan River has typically been explained in economic terms: its slow growth over most of the nineteenth century and its dispersed urban form have been [...]
- Leonie Matthews – My Father, and Stories of a Larrikin Architect
‘Larrikin’ does not seem to be a common or complimentary way to describe an architect yet when I think of my architect father, Lynthorne (Lyn) Matthews, this is what comes [...]
- Tinka Sack – A Landscape Neo- Baroque: Biodiversity in a Globally Homogenized Landscape
This paper focuses on Perth, Western Australia, a rapidly expanding settler-city located in an internationally recognized biodiversity hotspot. While uniquely high in plant endemism and species richness, the city’s fringes [...]
- Josephine Neldner – The Potential of Landscape in Water Sensitivity
The future of water sensitive urban design in Australia depends on many things, but it is certain due to its inclusion in federal government policy that it is one [...]
- Gérard Siero – Exploring Value Systems for Ecological Urbanism
An exploration of the values and ethics underpinning urban development reveals that issues of social equity and environmental sustainability are increasingly being mentioned as principles to guide development of vibrant [...]