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Landscape Architecture Australia is an authoritative and contemporary record of landscape architecture, urban design and land-use planning in Australia, providing independent reviews of public, commercial and residential projects, plus independent, commissioned comment on the issues facing landscape architecture and its practitioners today. It Is the national magazine of the Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA).

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THE BIODIVERSITY ISSUE

DELIVERING BIODIVERSITY-POSITIVE DESIGN

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Making space for wildness in Australian cities • Projects involving the “rewilding” of cities are being increasingly embraced overseas, particularly in Europe and Asia. But what qualities do we mean when we speak about “wildness” and how can we reconcile these with an Australian context?

Laying the groundwork for soil biodiversity • Soil is an integral part of biodiversity, a function of the plants and animals that live on it, the topography, the geography, the climate and time. Are we paying it enough attention?

Valuing nature • The New South Wales government’s Biodiversity Offsets Scheme is based on a flawed set of assumptions stemming from the idea that nature is a tradable commodity. What we need is a fundamental shift in perspective.

Billilia and the Boomerang Billabong: Regenerative landscape approaches through Country • At a station in south-west New South Wales, Traditional Owners and landscape architects are working together to explore ways to restore the degraded landscape, and to re-engage with the cultural and ecological significance of the site. The six members of the project team provide their perspectives on the site and the opportunities for regeneration through design.

Adjacent practices: Cultivating an aesthetic of care for design • Aesthetic experiences are embodied and multisensory and influence how we develop as designers. The practices we undertake outside of the studio have the potential to enrich our understandings of landscape and shape our relations with the non-human world.

A Black Swan event? Djirda Miya Island • On the southern edge of Perth’s CBD, a new haven created for the iconic Maali (black swan) offers a precedent for considering incremental approaches to regenerating urban river systems.

Restorative effects • The design of the Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) by Hassell capitalizes on the benefits of greenery on health while laying down the framework for a successful future pedestrian precinct in inner-Brisbane.

Shifting ecologies at the city fringe • Australia’s peri-urban areas are too often sites of destruction and loss, where forests and wetlands are paved over with suburban sprawl. Landscape architects can intervene to create real ecological depth on the edges of our cities.

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Botanical pursuits • Three practitioners – Robyn Barlow, Christina Nicholson and Fiona Harrisson – talk about the opportunities in designing for biodiversity at the scale of the garden.

Tomorrow’s trees today: Super Advanced Trees • For gardens and landscapes where the benefits of fully grown trees are a priority, Super Advanced Trees offer a straightforward and effective solution.

COP26: A conference of compromise, consensus, or cause for hope?

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