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We're accustomed to the idea of cars as destroyers of cities. Anyone seeking a model of dense, walkable, lovable neighbourhoods that don't ban the car should look no further than San Francisco.

Whatever public conversation there is about architecture is dominated by celebrities and enthusiasts, who “promote” it without enhancing anyone’s understanding of the difference between the good, the ...

The new New South Wales Environmental Planning and Assessment (Planning System Reforms) Bill 2025, which slid through parliament in November with bipartisan support and little press coverage, is “trus...

In her analysis of the ten-time Oscar-nominated film, The Brutalist, Elizabeth Farrelly criticises the film for its conceptual weaknesses and architectural inaccuracies.

Contemplating the walkability of cities and the patient obedience of pedestrians, Elizabeth Farrelly contends that viewing "walkability as a simple practical trait is such an error," and one that many...

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Contemplating the walkability of cities and the patient obedience of pedestrians, Elizabeth Farrelly contends that viewing "walkability as a simple practical trait is such an error," and one that many...

The Better Cities Initiative is a start-up not-for-profit organisation established to inform, empower and protect the long-term interests of the only group currently unrepresented in the planning syst...

Elizabeth Farrelly asks: can architecture itself, that three-dimensional animal, have moral qualities?