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Plant some bluddy street trees City of Darebin. Melbourne is a heat sink

  All engineers and urban designers should be made to walk on 35-40 degree days from my house to the local primary school with my children aged 5 and 6 and tell me what they think about streets without trees. This little graphic  was given to Garden Beet from http://www.cobaeurope.com/ . The graphic is all [...]

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Garden clocks: outdoor timing for my street and local community

Garden clocks: outdoor timing for my street and local community

My garden clock faces the street. And its all to do with the sheer frustration of designing public landscapes. Public areas are political. And political spaces are a nightmare for any designer.There are so many stakeholders and so many opinions that often the most skilled design team will create yet another blah blah space. Perhaps the [...]

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