MORE REASONS TO BAN PRIVATE SCHOOLS
Schools, of course, are not solely responsible for appalling student behaviour. Parents and culture also figure - and culture-building is the biggest single reason to end edu-tribalism.
MAKE ME A CITY
We know how to make cities more walkable, loveable, affordable, engaging and sustainable - so why aren't we doing it?
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HOW HARRY SEIDLER FLIPPED SYDNEY INTO THE MODERN
Handsome and radical as Harry Seidler’s buildings were, they cast long shadows across Australia’s cityscapes, making them colder, darker and less civic to this day.
WHAT'S REALLY GOOD AT THE AGNSW
Sydney is often seen as bright but shallow, but our underground depths are sometimes more interesting than the surface glitter
HOW CANBERRA STARTED TO GET INTERESTING
Locked for too long in a battle between The Worst of Sydney and The Way of the Griffins, Canberra could be slowly finding its own path
FUNERAL RIGHTS: EMPIRES OF THE DEAD OR THE CIRCLE OF LIFE?
Dead bodies have physical implications, and where space is ever-more contested, the right of the dead to dominate fertile soils, housing sites, harbour views or bushland must be interrogated.
A SYSTEM IN SEARCH OF A BELIEF
Any eight year old can we see need architecture that loves you back. Is a genuine theory the way to get there?
THE GENIUS OF THE TRAM
A tram network is far more than a transport system; it holds a city together, conferring a conceptual cohesion that is itself welcoming. Why aren't we just building them everywhere?
HOW INEQUALITY UNDERMINES CITY LIFE
When wealth occupies all of a city's choicest moments and the rest are left with nothing, it ends up being bad for everyone.
EATING FOR THE PLANET?
What if our own health conflicts with the health of the planet that feeds us? The more obvious answers aren’t necessarily the best ones.
YIMBY V. NIMBY; the faux-generation war
Australia’s housing crisis will not be solved by pointless generational conflict between the ‘nimbys’ who reject development and the ‘yimbys’ demanding more.
AGED-CARE FACILITY? SPARE ME
There must be better ways to age disgracefully than the soulless dettol-flavoured institutions we offer
HOW THE GREAT AUSSIE DREAM BECAME THE GREAT AUSSIE ADDICTION
Australia sold itself a dream of homeownership as the foundation of a fair society, but that dream has steadily corroded into a national addiction to property speculation.