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From Wednesday 3rd to Saturday 6th September 2025, the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre will come alive with colour, texture, and imagination as the Melbourne Craft & Quilt Fair returns—bigger, brighter, and more hands-on than ever. Running daily from 10am to 4pm, this beloved event is a celebration of all things handmade, welcoming seasoned makers,…
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Building Community and Sustainability: How Rooted Northwest is Creating a Revolutionary Co-Housing Farm Model In episode #896 of the Urban Farm podcast, host Greg Peterson interviews Dave Boehnlein, who is pioneering an innovative approach to sustainable living and farming through permaculture and regenerative design. Dave shares the inspiring story of Rooted Northwest, a 240-acre project…
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Estimated reading time: 14 minutes If you’re tired of weeds coming back year after year, join the club. Everyone who’s ever lived in a house has had to deal with them. Whether they’re popping up in your garden, taking over your driveway, or creeping into your lawn, weeds can be relentless. But it’s possible to…
Talking about climate change, sea level rise, and their effects is easy. Getting folks, myself included, to actually act on this monumental challenge is the big obstacle. One of the many challenges is getting a grasp on the long time horizons – if we don’t reduce emissions now, the world will be flooded by 10…
Turn wet days into bonding time with fun, garden-inspired DIYs for the whole family. Rainy days in the tropics usually mean canceled plans, muddy shoes, and kids bouncing off the walls. But for us plantitas? It’s the perfect time to stay indoors, get creative, and pass on the joy of gardening — even without stepping…
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img { border: 10px solid #FFFFFF; } I’m very glad to share that our book Social Issues in Transport Planning is finally published! Info about where to get the book here. The book, co-edited by Geneviève Boisjoly ( École Polytechnique de Montréal) and me, was published by Elsevier as part of the Advances in Transport…
Bedford, Texas – July 9, 2025 – Hort Americas, a leading North American supplier of commercial greenhouse products and hydroponic solutions, is proud to announce a strategic partnership with Hortiplan, a global innovator in Mobile Gully Systems (MGS) for leafy greens and herbs. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in bringing advanced, scalable, and automated…
We often come across interesting projects or topics around cities on daily basis, but they can easily be forgotten under my ‘favorite’ bookmarks. I can’t write an article for every single one of them, so I’ve decided to archive this precious info on this website as well, so it’s easier to trace it back when…
Our Graduate Student Blog contest is underway! We’ve extended the submission date to Sunday, August 3, 2025. All the information below remains the same; check it out and send us your paper! Light The Metropole/Urban History Association Graduate Student Blogging Contest, now in its ninth year, exists to support graduate students in exploring short form,…
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Dr Amelia Walker, University of South Australia / Adelaide University Image: ‘Hiking Sneakers’, 2016, photograph. Source: Amelia Walker This series presents creative-critical pieces begun in workshops on walking/writing to interrogate power, privilege, and inequity. I first developed a workshop for Storytelling for Justice, an online symposium hosted by the Meanjin-based Creative Arts Research Institute at…
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