Cities have a choice of autonomous vehicle futures: cars or mass transit vehicles. Which one we adopt is likely to determine how people-friendly...

The recent slump in building approvals is a reminder of the risks of an over-reliance on a boom-and-bust market to meet all housing...

The ways in which older women maintain meaningful social connections are many and varied – in this case, they do volunteer work for...

Granny flats are often the result of informal arrangements between parents and children who assume it will all work out well.  Markus J/Shutterstock A “granny flat...

The independent owner-operated businesses that bring life to run-down neighbourhoods often have a hipster ethos.  Peter Walters, Author provided One of the stark differences between neighbourhoods...

Although tiny houses take many forms, most are situated in rural or semi-rural areas. Jekka Shearer, Author provided Mention “tiny house” in any social gathering and...

Mary Jane Cain (centre) with granddaughters Miley Barker and and Molly Chatfield and her great niece Josephine.  The sun dancin': people and place Coonabarabran (Aboriginal...

Working from home means taking work into your home.  Shutterstock What if you never had to return to work? Never had to return to work...

Elsie Masson outside Government House, Darwin.  Wayne Collection, Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum. In 1913, at the age of 23, Elsie Masson was travelling on a...

Grey nomads are champions of a radical type of portable urbanism as they travel to far-flung places like Lake Ballard in Western Australia. Image...