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Drawing lessons from National Tree Day

National Tree Day shows what is needed to attract continues public participation in events...

Walking the transect

The transect is a participatory process used to collect information about an area of land as part of the design process...

Participatory Learning and Action — and how to use it

Participatory Learning and Action makes use of diagrams such as matices, tables, maps and models to build participation into project implementation...

It's strange how the mention of a name can suddenly take you back to something in your past. So it was that an online conversation on the Lost Sydney Facebook took me back to the Sydney of the late 1960s

Town in the mountains

Katoomba... an architectural medley, a melange of styles and people... a town in the mountains home to an extraordinary woman...

How to buy stamps

Buying stamps on Sydney's lower North shore had never been so cheap... even if you did have to stay watchful...

First brush with poverty

For us, it was our first brush with poverty...

Byron Bay: Discovered and rediscovered

Some places are special and they stay in mind as a mental image that you recall later. Doing this has little to do with logic and more to do with feeling, with emotion. For me, one of those places was a roadside on a long downhill stretch the takes you from the escarpment to the coastal plain...