Outside Swansea, a city on the coast of South Wales in the British Isles, is a picturesque valley park, described as ‘a Victorian Paradise’. This long forgotten estate, formerly the family home and the creation of John Dillwyn Llewelyn between 1832 and about 1865, fell into neglected disrepair during the 20th century.

Australia is experiencing one of its cycles of drought across the east coast and floods in the far north. This leads to calls for more harnessing of rivers for industrial supply -an agribusiness culture supplanting one which knew how to exist with the environmental cycles.

The Landscape Foundation (LF) will be joining Ngā Aho - Māori Design Professionals Network in visiting the whenua and whānau at Ihumātao on Saturday 24th August at 1.30pm, and encourage members of the design and landscape communities to join in support.

Poor urban planning situations can often be attributed in large part to a lack of understanding of and/or interest in the history, heritage, and community attachments to urban green spaces by management authorities.

While traveling across Louisiana, the low coastal delta where the Mississippi floods across the land it is hard not to reflect on the the overly simplistic images pop culture paints of the South.

Along the southern edge of the Waitematā Harbour and adjacent to Auckland’s central business district is an area of reclaimed coastal land. This 168-hectare area stretches 6.3 kilometres from the Harbour Bridge in the west to TEAL Park in the east, and extends up to one kilometre out from the original 1840 shoreline.