Landscape design
Conference paper
Group-cum-townscape?
The English firm of Llewelyn-Davies Weeks Forestier-Walker & Bor, formed in London in 1960, is best known for the master planning of the new town of Milton Keynes and for a series of hospital buildings and complexes, some so extensive that they can be analysed in urban terms.
Conference paper
The emergence of collective dreams
This paper explores the nature of a landscape design and planning process that could ensure the resilience and sustainability of suburban public space, and presents an argument that:
Report
Landscape modification: an alternative to residential access ramps and lifts
This report and associated documents explore and analyse the approach to modifying the surrounding landscape of a home in order to improve accessibility through innovative home modification solutions within a community care context.
Conference paper
Environmental infrastructure: achieving regional liveability outcomes through a broader regional planning perspective
Investments in the provision of physical and social infrastructure have traditionally been used by governments in developing regions in attempts to offset the impacts of development and to maintain the regional community’s Quality of Life (QoL) expectations.
Report
Where have all the gardens gone? An investigation into the disappearance of back yards in the newer Australian suburb
The disadvantages of the low-density car-based suburbs that surround Australian and US cities are well known and widely debated. These include facilities located to the disadvantage of non-car users, wasteful use of land, cost of infrastructure, time and energy expended on driving, low incidence of social contact and lack of exercise. Nevertheless, the older Australian...