A COMMON GREEN

Eve Apartments

Erskineville, New South Wales

360 Degrees Landscape Architects

The population of Australia’s capital cities continues to grow and conservative estimates for Sydney suggest a growth from 4.7 million in 2013 to 7.9 million by 2053. Of this population, the New South Wales Department of Planning dictates that 80 percent of new homes must be located within the city’s existing and planned urban footprint, meaning an additional 770,000 infill dwellings by 2036. This is a significant new societal and urban direction and we are now witnessing the emergence of a new urban Australia, in which backyards are increasingly scarce and the local park has been reduced in size to a Landscape architecture is the profession best placed to negotiate novel approaches to the provision of this green space, which will provide amenity and support human and ecosystem health in the future city, from the largest scale (the city) to the smallest (the garden).