The future of Australian housing
For decades urban planning has encouraged the construction of large houses on the fringes of our cities with little attention to environmental or energy-saving concerns. Can we do better?
How to convince your apartment strata to go solar
Making Australia’s freestanding homes greener is mainly a matter of time and money, but for apartment dwellers the process is more complex
Thermal mix: a modest Canberra renovation holds and traps the sun
Using 80% less energy than average, an unassuming suburban home is winning architecture prizes for its imaginative revamp
‘Ultimately uninhabitable’: western Sydney’s legacy of planning failure
Houses built to the fence line with dark roofs and tiny backyards leave their owners at the mercy of the climate crisis, experts say
A broken dream: outer Melbourne has affordable houses but no train or school
In the first of a short series on Australian housing, Elias Visontay examines how Victoria’s planning system is failing residents and the environment
