by Linda Carroli Enabling Suburbs is about experiments that enable suburban communities to speculate about the future and engineer, envision and enact change. It is also about developing collaborative partnerships between communities and practitioner. Each of us, as urban practitioners, is proposing initiatives or thought experiments that engage this possibility for change at a micropolitical … Continue reading
by Jason Haigh By putting aside the current forms of a suburb, first principles can offer alternatives on what locations offer a natural fit as focal points within a community. Their current condition can either illustrate the skill with the suburb makes use of its assets, or the lost potential for making the places that … Continue reading
We live and work in Aspley, a middle northern suburb of Brisbane, which has a population of 11,840 as per the 2006 Census and is located about 13 kilometres north of the CBD. The population is projected to rise to 12,250 (medium series projection) by 2031, an additional 500 people indicating no major or foreseeable … Continue reading