22 Sep 2017

Using drains to improve suburbs

From Afternoons, 1:17 pm on 22 September 2017

Urban planners are always looking at ways to make the most of our spaces, especially as building density increases and lawns shrink. 

Green, open space is needed more and more so every patch of land can't be overlooked. 

There's one thing that can be found in cities and suburb and that's drains.

Researcher Zoe Myers from the Australian Urban Research Centre has proposed a way to use those drains to make "living streams".

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Photo: Supplied / Zoe Myers

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