Today sees the beginning of a two week workshop/project in Sydney call UrbanIslands. From the site itself - "Urban Islands is a 12-day intensive masterclass taught by 3 groups of international emerging architects on and about the controversial site of Cockatoo Island in the Sydney Harbour".
According to LineFeed - Melbourne, although being one of the top places to live in the world, has three major problems to contend with. They mention briefly the first two, broadband and transport (surely these are Australia-wide problems too) ...
This is a great little clip from a longer piece from back in the 70's that looks into they way the design of public spaces affects the way that people use them. It is only a small piece (about 10 ...
I stumbled across this really interesting example of experimentation in public space while browsing over at the Ministry of Type. Its a design put together in a public square somewhere in Europe (you can see a person there for scale). That would be kind of unremarkable just on its own, but the piece is put together using 250,000 1 Euro coins.