This book foregrounds socioecological stewardship in urban spaces. It demonstrates how activities like gardening and participating in events that spark ecological learning foster a sense of place, social connections, and lively neighbourhoods. Offering case studies from Sydney, Australia, it presents an innovative, interdisciplinary, place-based design research methodology. This approach combines ethnography to examine people-place-environment relationships […]

On Gadigal Country, south of Sydney’s Central Business District, is a small inner-city suburb called Ultimo. Considering Ultimo as the intersection of multiple trajectories, we show how particular neoliberal narratives focused on growth and creativity influence the visibility of other stories and trajectories that also constitute this place. For instance, with its complex built environment, […]