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#UrbanStudies February 2025 Special Issue: Long-Term Intergenerational Perspectives on Urban Sustainability Transitions (Volume 62, Issue 3) is out now guest edited by Scott Hawken, Christian Isendahl, @theshippingprayer.bsky.social and Stephan Barthel
https://buff.ly/419Ecbe
https://buff.ly/419Ecbe
Very pleased to see this long term project come to a sparkling conclusion. Read on to understand what long term thinking means and why we need it and intergenerational neutrality for our cities of today and tomorrow #longterm with thanks to the quality journal publisher @urbanstudiesonline.com
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The Adelaide Writers Festival now wrecked by the Adelaide Festival Board, half of which was appointed late last year: a marketing executive; a former politician; a local councillor/real estate agent; an airport manager; a lawyer; a media consultant; and a banker. Another public arts takeover fiasco.
January 10, 2026 at 12:11 AM
The Adelaide Writers Festival now wrecked by the Adelaide Festival Board, half of which was appointed late last year: a marketing executive; a former politician; a local councillor/real estate agent; an airport manager; a lawyer; a media consultant; and a banker. Another public arts takeover fiasco.
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We are now accepting applications from senior scholars and #AsianStudies practitioners interested in serving as Conference Mentors at #AAS2026! Propose a topic by January 30 and share your expertise with a small group of mentees in Vancouver.
bit.ly/CFM-2026
bit.ly/CFM-2026
January 9, 2026 at 3:11 PM
We are now accepting applications from senior scholars and #AsianStudies practitioners interested in serving as Conference Mentors at #AAS2026! Propose a topic by January 30 and share your expertise with a small group of mentees in Vancouver.
bit.ly/CFM-2026
bit.ly/CFM-2026
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📰 Greek heritage sites, preserved from development and agriculture, serve as sanctuaries for endangered flora and fauna. This suggests archaeological landscapes could be pivotal for future conservation efforts.
🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via BBC Future
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via BBC Future
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
The animals saved in Greece's ancient accidental 'arks'
Shielded from development and agriculture, many archaeological sites from ancient Greece have now become inadvertent safe harbours for plants and animals.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 9:30 PM
📰 Greek heritage sites, preserved from development and agriculture, serve as sanctuaries for endangered flora and fauna. This suggests archaeological landscapes could be pivotal for future conservation efforts.
🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via BBC Future
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via BBC Future
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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Copenhagen unveils a 30-hectare coastal park to reshape city-nature connection worldlandscapearchitect.com/copenhagen-u... #landscapearchitecture
September 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Copenhagen unveils a 30-hectare coastal park to reshape city-nature connection worldlandscapearchitect.com/copenhagen-u... #landscapearchitecture
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Job: Assistant Professor Landscape Architecture, University of Texas at Arlington: uta.peopleadmin.com/postings/32923
Assistant Professor
The Landscape Architecture Program in the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs (CAPPA), at the University of Texas at Arlington, invites applications for the Rank of Assistant Professo...
uta.peopleadmin.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Job: Assistant Professor Landscape Architecture, University of Texas at Arlington: uta.peopleadmin.com/postings/32923
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What are the Landscape Architecture Trends for 2026?
worldlandscapearchitect.com/what-are-the... #landscapearchitecture #climateadaptation #AI #biodiveristy #business
worldlandscapearchitect.com/what-are-the... #landscapearchitecture #climateadaptation #AI #biodiveristy #business
What are the Landscape Architecture Trends for 2026?
Damian Holmes provides the insights into the landscape architecture trends of 2026 and what to expect in the coming year from AI, Biodiversity
worldlandscapearchitect.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:29 AM
What are the Landscape Architecture Trends for 2026?
worldlandscapearchitect.com/what-are-the... #landscapearchitecture #climateadaptation #AI #biodiveristy #business
worldlandscapearchitect.com/what-are-the... #landscapearchitecture #climateadaptation #AI #biodiveristy #business
#BoycottAdelaideFestival
Credit to Zadie Smith and all the other writers speaking out and boycotting due to censorship by the AFW board. Censorship is not healing or helpful. SA premier, and his endorsement of the AWF board censorship, are misguided on this.
www.smh.com.au/culture/book...
Credit to Zadie Smith and all the other writers speaking out and boycotting due to censorship by the AFW board. Censorship is not healing or helpful. SA premier, and his endorsement of the AWF board censorship, are misguided on this.
www.smh.com.au/culture/book...
Star British author Zadie Smith joins dozens of authors boycotting Adelaide Writers’ Week
Local and international writers have pulled out of one of the country’s best-loved writers’ festivals after Palestinian-Australian Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah was removed from its program.
www.smh.com.au
January 9, 2026 at 9:53 AM
#BoycottAdelaideFestival
Credit to Zadie Smith and all the other writers speaking out and boycotting due to censorship by the AFW board. Censorship is not healing or helpful. SA premier, and his endorsement of the AWF board censorship, are misguided on this.
www.smh.com.au/culture/book...
Credit to Zadie Smith and all the other writers speaking out and boycotting due to censorship by the AFW board. Censorship is not healing or helpful. SA premier, and his endorsement of the AWF board censorship, are misguided on this.
www.smh.com.au/culture/book...
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A reminder to Southeast Asian Studies scholars that we are accepting applications to the Gosling-Lim postdoctoral fellowship—but *only* until February 2. Prepare and submit your application materials before then to be considered for this opportunity!
bit.ly/AASGL
bit.ly/AASGL
January 7, 2026 at 9:00 PM
A reminder to Southeast Asian Studies scholars that we are accepting applications to the Gosling-Lim postdoctoral fellowship—but *only* until February 2. Prepare and submit your application materials before then to be considered for this opportunity!
bit.ly/AASGL
bit.ly/AASGL
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Call for Chapters: Regimescape: Rethinking the Urban and Environmental Legacy of 20th-Century Authoritarian and Totalitarian Regimes: deadline January 20, 2026 sites.google.com/view/archite...
Center for Architectural Literature - Regimescape
sites.google.com
January 8, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Call for Chapters: Regimescape: Rethinking the Urban and Environmental Legacy of 20th-Century Authoritarian and Totalitarian Regimes: deadline January 20, 2026 sites.google.com/view/archite...
Another day another deadly fire and still Labor keeps on approving more climate wrecking coal mines.... 11 or so and counting with 35 more in the pipeline. Time to stop fueling global fires #auspol #climate
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Live: More evacuations ordered as Victorian firefighters confront catastrophic conditions
Victorian and South Australian authorities are battling "catastrophic" and "extreme" fire conditions as Australia continues to swelter through a heatwave. Follow live.
www.abc.net.au
January 9, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Another day another deadly fire and still Labor keeps on approving more climate wrecking coal mines.... 11 or so and counting with 35 more in the pipeline. Time to stop fueling global fires #auspol #climate
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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If economists were serious about boosting housing affordability, they would be strongly advocating for reforms to assist cooperative housing, so challenging bank lending rules, their inflexible& unjustified restrictions on lending on sub 50m2 apartments.
Oh & they’ld be pushing for tax reform…
Oh & they’ld be pushing for tax reform…
Good advice.
Once that is done you could also add “support housing cooperatives”, or anything that can bypass the need for private profits.
One day the message will get through that market housing isn’t the way to housing affordability.
Once that is done you could also add “support housing cooperatives”, or anything that can bypass the need for private profits.
One day the message will get through that market housing isn’t the way to housing affordability.
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
If economists were serious about boosting housing affordability, they would be strongly advocating for reforms to assist cooperative housing, so challenging bank lending rules, their inflexible& unjustified restrictions on lending on sub 50m2 apartments.
Oh & they’ld be pushing for tax reform…
Oh & they’ld be pushing for tax reform…
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Shocking post by #walksydney -
5 pedestrians killed last week.
Look at the types of big vehicles involved
Shrink sizes, slow speeds
5 pedestrians killed last week.
Look at the types of big vehicles involved
Shrink sizes, slow speeds
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Shocking post by #walksydney -
5 pedestrians killed last week.
Look at the types of big vehicles involved
Shrink sizes, slow speeds
5 pedestrians killed last week.
Look at the types of big vehicles involved
Shrink sizes, slow speeds
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Barangaroo exemplar of worse practice, now with smidge of affordable housing (just 2.3%) given ‘poor door’ entry
@jennyleong.bsky.social spot on; “outsourced the responsibility of housing delivery” to developers, giving them “more control over affordable housing”.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
@jennyleong.bsky.social spot on; “outsourced the responsibility of housing delivery” to developers, giving them “more control over affordable housing”.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Poor doors’: affordable housing tenants have to use back entrance to access Barangaroo apartments
Those paying discounted rent at Watermans Residences can’t use pool or gym, either. Critics say segregation ‘a dystopian microcosm of housing inequality’
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Barangaroo exemplar of worse practice, now with smidge of affordable housing (just 2.3%) given ‘poor door’ entry
@jennyleong.bsky.social spot on; “outsourced the responsibility of housing delivery” to developers, giving them “more control over affordable housing”.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
@jennyleong.bsky.social spot on; “outsourced the responsibility of housing delivery” to developers, giving them “more control over affordable housing”.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Do initiatives to improve biodiversity have co-benefits for human health? In this systematic review, we found that many biodiversity initiatives do help with physical and mental health, increased physical activity, child development, and other positive outcomes.
September 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Do initiatives to improve biodiversity have co-benefits for human health? In this systematic review, we found that many biodiversity initiatives do help with physical and mental health, increased physical activity, child development, and other positive outcomes.
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5️⃣ Benefits of #UrbanTrees 👇
🍃Cool air
🫁 Filter urban pollutants
💱Increase property value
🐞Increase urban biodiversity
💚Improve physical and mental health
#WorldHabitatDay #GreenCities #FAOGreenCities
🍃Cool air
🫁 Filter urban pollutants
💱Increase property value
🐞Increase urban biodiversity
💚Improve physical and mental health
#WorldHabitatDay #GreenCities #FAOGreenCities
October 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
5️⃣ Benefits of #UrbanTrees 👇
🍃Cool air
🫁 Filter urban pollutants
💱Increase property value
🐞Increase urban biodiversity
💚Improve physical and mental health
#WorldHabitatDay #GreenCities #FAOGreenCities
🍃Cool air
🫁 Filter urban pollutants
💱Increase property value
🐞Increase urban biodiversity
💚Improve physical and mental health
#WorldHabitatDay #GreenCities #FAOGreenCities
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Review of "Urban Plants" by Trevor Dines, the latest addition to Bloomsbury's British Wildlife Collection.
What did I think of the book? Find out here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/10/16/b... #ecology #biodiversity #botany #wildlife #plants #NatureWriting
What did I think of the book? Find out here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/10/16/b... #ecology #biodiversity #botany #wildlife #plants #NatureWriting
Book review: “Urban Plants” by Trevor Dines
Earlier this year I received an unexpected invitation from Bloomsbury Publishing to attend a book launch at Philip Mould’s gallery in London. Looking at the details I immediately said yes, be…
jeffollerton.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Review of "Urban Plants" by Trevor Dines, the latest addition to Bloomsbury's British Wildlife Collection.
What did I think of the book? Find out here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/10/16/b... #ecology #biodiversity #botany #wildlife #plants #NatureWriting
What did I think of the book? Find out here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/10/16/b... #ecology #biodiversity #botany #wildlife #plants #NatureWriting
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Native trees support specialist invertebrates, fungi and birds that co-evolved with them - if we only plant exotics, we lose those relationships and end up with cities dominated by generalist species like sparrows and pigeons.🧪🌏 #urban #trees #urbanforest #biodiversity
Five reasons urban trees make sense
Comment: The trees lining our streets and parks are quietly delivering a host of benefits – from cooling and cleaning the air to improving our health and wellbeing.
newsroom.co.nz
October 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Native trees support specialist invertebrates, fungi and birds that co-evolved with them - if we only plant exotics, we lose those relationships and end up with cities dominated by generalist species like sparrows and pigeons.🧪🌏 #urban #trees #urbanforest #biodiversity
An environmental vandal at the helm abrogating responsibility. This is definitely not a planet friendly government. Shame on Murray Watt the worst Labor environment minister of the past decades.
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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'Climate trigger' formally ruled out of environment laws
A "climate trigger" that could be used to block coal and gas projects has been formally excluded from the government's overhaul of Australia's environment laws, minister Murray Watt confirms.
search.app
October 22, 2025 at 7:59 AM
An environmental vandal at the helm abrogating responsibility. This is definitely not a planet friendly government. Shame on Murray Watt the worst Labor environment minister of the past decades.
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
search.app/XPzFw
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
search.app/XPzFw
Great to see this new biodiversity primer for landscape architecture from #ASLA
New Resource: Biodiversity Primer for Landscape Architects
ASLA’s free guide helps landscape architects design for and protect biodiversity.
📘Download: https://bit.ly/3INYUqu
ASLA’s free guide helps landscape architects design for and protect biodiversity.
📘Download: https://bit.ly/3INYUqu
September 30, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Great to see this new biodiversity primer for landscape architecture from #ASLA
Transport will make or break Australia’s new climate plan – and time is running out to fix it
theconversation.com/transport-wi...
theconversation.com/transport-wi...
Transport will make or break Australia’s new climate plan – and time is running out to fix it
Unless transport emissions are tackled head-on, Australia’s new climate target cannot be met.
theconversation.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Transport will make or break Australia’s new climate plan – and time is running out to fix it
theconversation.com/transport-wi...
theconversation.com/transport-wi...
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New Resource: Biodiversity Primer for Landscape Architects
ASLA’s free guide helps landscape architects design for and protect biodiversity.
📘Download: https://bit.ly/3INYUqu
ASLA’s free guide helps landscape architects design for and protect biodiversity.
📘Download: https://bit.ly/3INYUqu
September 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
New Resource: Biodiversity Primer for Landscape Architects
ASLA’s free guide helps landscape architects design for and protect biodiversity.
📘Download: https://bit.ly/3INYUqu
ASLA’s free guide helps landscape architects design for and protect biodiversity.
📘Download: https://bit.ly/3INYUqu
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The NSW Pattern Book for Terrace Houses has rightly sparked interest in gentle missing middle types & in better design.
An exemplar by architects NMBW & #OtherArchitects proposes a central pavilion flanked by dual gardens, framed by 2 adaptable outer pavilions.
A genuinely new idea for #urbanhousing
An exemplar by architects NMBW & #OtherArchitects proposes a central pavilion flanked by dual gardens, framed by 2 adaptable outer pavilions.
A genuinely new idea for #urbanhousing
September 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The NSW Pattern Book for Terrace Houses has rightly sparked interest in gentle missing middle types & in better design.
An exemplar by architects NMBW & #OtherArchitects proposes a central pavilion flanked by dual gardens, framed by 2 adaptable outer pavilions.
A genuinely new idea for #urbanhousing
An exemplar by architects NMBW & #OtherArchitects proposes a central pavilion flanked by dual gardens, framed by 2 adaptable outer pavilions.
A genuinely new idea for #urbanhousing
Since 2008, Australia’s spending on research and development as a proportion of gross domestic product has fallen so far behind the OECD average, it would take an extra A$28 billion a year just to reach parity. @auspol.info Aus labor running backwards
theconversation.com/new-report-r...
theconversation.com/new-report-r...
New report reveals glaring gaps between Australia’s future needs and science capabilities
We have gaps – in workforce, infrastructure and coordination – that will cripple our ability to secure a bright future for the next generation, unless we act now.
theconversation.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Since 2008, Australia’s spending on research and development as a proportion of gross domestic product has fallen so far behind the OECD average, it would take an extra A$28 billion a year just to reach parity. @auspol.info Aus labor running backwards
theconversation.com/new-report-r...
theconversation.com/new-report-r...
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The problem of mis-diagnosis?
Given our demographic realities of majority 1 & 2 person households, why not build more smaller dwellings? Not only apartments as is happening, but also small lot 2 bedroom houses?
Inner city areas had lots of 2 bed terraces, now project homes usually 4 bedrooms
Given our demographic realities of majority 1 & 2 person households, why not build more smaller dwellings? Not only apartments as is happening, but also small lot 2 bedroom houses?
Inner city areas had lots of 2 bed terraces, now project homes usually 4 bedrooms
August 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The problem of mis-diagnosis?
Given our demographic realities of majority 1 & 2 person households, why not build more smaller dwellings? Not only apartments as is happening, but also small lot 2 bedroom houses?
Inner city areas had lots of 2 bed terraces, now project homes usually 4 bedrooms
Given our demographic realities of majority 1 & 2 person households, why not build more smaller dwellings? Not only apartments as is happening, but also small lot 2 bedroom houses?
Inner city areas had lots of 2 bed terraces, now project homes usually 4 bedrooms
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Quel est le point commun entre un chou romanesco, la côte bretonne et un cristal de glace ? Tous sont des fractales. Que vous vous en approchiez ou que vous vous en éloigniez, leur forme géométrique reste la même : c’est ce qu’on appelle l’autosimilarité.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/zpj
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/zpj
August 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Quel est le point commun entre un chou romanesco, la côte bretonne et un cristal de glace ? Tous sont des fractales. Que vous vous en approchiez ou que vous vous en éloigniez, leur forme géométrique reste la même : c’est ce qu’on appelle l’autosimilarité.
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/zpj
➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/zpj