Australian public discourse shows a renewed interest in the city, at a time when the challenges of urbanity are increasingly at the forefront of the public imagination. Enormous “movement” of all kinds is taking place at local, regional, national and international scales: from war and mass migration, protest and counter protest, floods and fire, disruptive technologies, increasing density and housing affordability to debates about Sydney’s lockout laws, Perth’s Freight Link and Melbourne’s sky rail.
In this issue of Landscape Architecture Australia entitled “The Moving City,” we engage with this movement. We explore our embodied capacity to dwell and be moved, the diminishing of meaning and the loss of quiet, perception and impermanence, exchange and dissonance, fluidity and flux, and traces of memory in a re-situated city. This movement is also…
