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Image: Brisbane flood clean up, by edenink, under CC license.
I was commissioned by Foreground to reflect on the planning and urban design responses to the 2011 floods which affected nearly 80 percent of the state of Queensland, claiming the lives of 33 people, and damaging or destroying 29,000 homes and businesses at a cost of more than $5 billion.
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Image: Airborn Insight.
Extract from the article by Jeff Sparrow, published Friday 11 September 2020.
We were excited to see Small Creek included in a story about rewilding and naturalisation projects in Australia, published today in The Guardian.
The article quotes our client, Ben Walker, who during his tenure at Ipswich City Council was a true project partner with Landscapology and Bligh Tanner, and a staunch champion of the process and upfront community engagement.
It was an honour to be included alongside a bunch of such wonderful projects.
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One of the many ways the existing drainage channel concrete has been reused - in this case, broken slabs line the low-flow channel, allowing day-to-day water flow and plant growth. Image: Alan Hoban.
Muanivatu settlement, Suva, Fiji. Image: RISE.
Recently, Amalie joined an international team working on an action-research program at the intersections of health, environment, and water and sanitation.
Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environment (RISE) is trialling a new water sensitive approach to water and sanitation management in 24 informal settlements across Makassar, Indonesia and Suva, Fiji.
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