Design
In the wake of environmental activist Greta Thunburg’s “blah blah blah” speech about empty rhetoric on global climate action, InReview takes a look at how the South Australian development sector is tackling low-carbon targets.
Opinion
The shift to working from home has seen domestic power and data use rise while city road use and congestion is slashed. A percentage of workers staying at home post-pandemic may prompt a rethink of infrastructure needs, explains John L Hopkins.
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Inner-city Adelaide suburbs are being given priority in infrastructure spending over needy outer suburbs in a deliberate economic move to increase the city’s “liveability” rating and global standing, an urban planning report says.
Labor’s car parking policy is yet another example of Adelaide’s insistence on a completely counter-productive approach to managing traffic, argues David Washington.
Other countries are planning new cities using technological innovation to achieve more sustainable development. Wendy Steele asks why Australia’s focus is almost solely on growing our existing metropolises.
SPECIAL REPORT | The way South Australians design their communities and their homes must change, planners warn, with the impacts of climate change a present reality. Stephanie Richards reports on how the state has been preparing its built form – and what needs to happen next.
Adelaide needs to take action to preserve what makes our urban landscape unique before we become just another bland, standardised city, writes urban planner Kevin O’Leary.
