It’s Fringe Time
Fringe Festival is that one month of the year when Perth feels like a happening city with people and culture …
Refugees: Design for Permanent Solutions
PHOTO: Environmental Justice Foundation Over the years, awareness regarding the refugee crisis and their living …
Smart Cities: Why a Technological Approach isn’t the ‘Smartest’ Approach
The citizens the smart city claims to serve are treated like infants. We are fed cute icons of urban life, …
domestic experimentation begins at home
British architect Sir John Soane was an especially determined maker of home. During the early 19th-century he acquired several adjacent …
A City On Wheels
How many wheels does it take to live in Copenhagen? Two-many. Okay, that’s a terrible joke – but it’s actually …
Water infiltration and the shift to recharging ground water.
In the last 10 years there has been a global shift in recharging the ground water of an urban area …
Burning Dry
Under the scorching sun, the farmer sighed in exasperation as he tried to toil on the parched earth to make …
Obituary – Vale Michael Sorkin 1948 – 2020
Obituary Vale Michael Sorkin 1948 – 2020 An obituary is a strange thing to write; however, I feel compelled. Michael Sorkin …
Baugruppen: Housing for a New Generation
The conversation of housing in Australia has been a bleak one for a while. Unaffordability for new home buyers has …
How to not get robbed: Examining passive surveillance in inner-city Perth
Recently my family was robbed. We had just moved to a new house, relocating from a 10,000sqm property in the …