Landscape design
Conference paper
The long road to BIM: defining its relevancy and applicability to the Australian landscape architecture profession
While the Australian Architecture profession has relatively quickly incorporated and accepted Building information modelling (BIM) as part of its normal work flow and practises, the Australian landscape architecture profession has been less than accepting of BIM it as a management model. This problem is exacerbated within the Australian Landscape Architecture profession, where very little discourse...
Conference paper
Lindsay Dixon Pryor: setting foundations for Australian campus landscapes
Lindsay Dixon Pryor (1915-1998) is best known for his contribution to the landscape of Canberra when employed as landscape manager and landscape architect by the Department of the Interior between 1944 and 1958. Pryor was trained as a forester and subsequently applied himself to cognate fields of botany, landscape design and management, and academia as...
Policy report
Green infrastructure:
Cities and states are always looking for ways to more efficiently and effectively deliver public services, such as flood management, resource conservation, pollution prevention, social equity and human health. Green infrastructure is an integrated set of strategies that help realize these outcomes in the built environment through the deployment of design, materials and methods that...
Report
Improving connectivity for biodiversity across the City of Melbourne: a framework for evaluating and planning management actions
This report contains a methodological framework to measure habitat connectivity for a series of key animal groups across an urban landscape. The report contains a summary of the recent science for measuring habitat connectivity, things to consider when using this approach and worked examples.
Guide
Greener places: establishing an urban green infrastructure policy for New South Wales
This draft 'Green Infrastructure' strategy has been prepared to guide the planning, design and delivery of Green Infrastructure in urban areas across New South Wales.