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Landscape Architecture Australia 147.

This issue of Landscape Architecture Australia opens up a conversation about the future, exploring the way the profession is pushing the boundaries of landscape architecture and urbanism. It treats this question as an opportunity to reflect and speculate, placing the Australian experience within an international context. SueAnne Ware and Chris Johnstone are the guest editors for the issue, merging practice and discipline under the expansive title “New Frontiers: Future Landscapes.” Ricky Ray Ricardo, Landscape Architecture Australia’s assistant editor, and I would like to thank SueAnne and Chris for taking on the role, coalescing their recent international experiences and applying their academic and practice-based knowledge to the ambitious proposition. We would also like to thank the collaborating practitioners and academics, from Australia and across the world, who came together to consider what frontiers lay ahead of landscape architecture as it responds to the challenges of the Anthropocene.

Projects and articles in this issue:

• Hikoi. Preferencing direct experiences of landscape over attempts to interpret or symbolize it. (Article: Martin Bryant, Penny Allan)
• Cooling a Tropical City. A plan to reduce the urban heat island effect in Australia’s hottest capital, Darwin. (Article: Tony Cox, Lawrence Nield)
• She’ll be Right. Is Newcastle’s relaxed attitude to development denying its potential? (Article: Owen Kelly, Sam Trembath)
• On Working on Site. Reflecting on how digital technologies are affecting our relationship with site. (Article: Jo Russell-Clarke)
• Engaging the Vacant. A self-initiated project transforms a vacant plot in Portland into an immersive landscape experiment. (Article: Brett Milligan)
• Parckfarm. An interactive project in Brussels, Belgium invites visitors to explore new park typologies. (Visual essay: SueAnneWare, Chris Johnstone)
• Growing Society. Improving our living environments requires shared effort between communities of common interest. (Article: Greg Grabasch, Daniel Firns)
• A Dangerous Profession. The death of regional towns is not inevitable if communities and design professionals work together. (Article: Liesl Malan, Sally Wright)
• Competitive Territory. Who has the say on our forgotten urban places? (Article: Tim O’Loan)
• Field Trip: E-Scape. Can landscape design play a role in managing the processes and patterns of refugee influx? (Article: Maria Gabriella Trovato)

Cameron Bruhn, editorial director, Landscape Architecture Australia

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