Mosaic Insights and Alluvium Consulting have worked with the Illawarra Shoalhaven Joint Organisation and the member councils between 2020-2022 on their Enabling Water Sensitive Communities Program. The program aims to increase the uptake of water sensitive practices across the region in the private and public...
Melbourne is known as one of the most liveable cities in the world. Integral to this international reputation is an extensive open space network of parks, gardens, laneways, civic areas, promenades, bays, waterways and trails across the 32 local government areas that make up the...
The COVID19 pandemic is impacting cities and societies globally. The scale and speed of disruption have been significant, and the economic and social impacts are uncertain and likely to persist for years. The direct impacts of the virus such as deaths, increased burden on the...
Mosaic Insights are currently engaged by a Victorian public agency to set targets for the urban cooling (and hence tree canopy cover) for a significant urban development in an emerging growth corridor of Melbourne. The intention is that the outcomes from this project will feed...
The Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (GMCT) manages and services a large portfolio of assets but has limited experience with major construction and capital projects. Facing the challenge of developing a 128 Hectare greenfield site in Melbourne’s North West growth corridor into their largest cemetery yet,...
Melbourne Water strategically invests in urban cooling outcomes across land and waterways it manages. Mosaic and Alluvium developed a prioritisation scheme that identifies specific locations to invest, based on the cooling potential, and heat vulnerability of the surrounding population, population density, stormwater benefit and broader...
The vision of the Western Parkland City is for ‘a city in its landscape’. A city that is restorative and regenerative, restoring ecological and hydrological systems to ensure they are sustainable. The creation of the Western Sydney Parkland City is happening with aims of moving...
Changes to the nature and scale of the Omeo region’s traditional industries are having an impact on employment and ultimately community sustainability. A number of substantial projects have been funded, approved or proposed for the Omeo region that have the potential to transition the local...
Understanding the true cost of establishing urban trees is critical to the successful creation of healthy urban forests. Despite this, research shows that councils and other landowners do not have access to a reliable, rigorous costing tool, which makes it hard to produce defensible business...
Urban green space policy has come a long way since the 202020 Vision’s inception in 2013, however these aspirational policies aren’t necessarily translating into the implementation of green space. A key learning to arise from the last eighteen months of the 202020 Vision’s programmatic work...