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Mosaic Insights and Alluvium have partnered with the Institute for Sustainable Futures to develop a Sustainability and Heat Report to inform the rapid and significant development of the new global gateway to be built around the Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport. Transformational change of the...

Victorian Department of Land, Water, Environment and Planning (DELWP) was seeking to further understand the economic value of investing in urban open spaces, to inform the development of the Melbourne Open Space Strategy. The services offered by urban natural capital are not directly traded in...

Sydney Water is seeking to understand future water demand for urban greening and maintenance of the valuable open space across Sydney Metropolitan Region. The work is aligned with future scenarios, which define plausible futures that allow decision-makers to think through possibilities that might otherwise be...

Minta is a flagship greenfield residential estate for Stockland, and a key development for the City of Casey, who have a vision to create Australia’s most liveable and smart city. Working closely with the urban designers, Stockland and Council, Alluvium and Mosaic Insights analysed the...

Mosaic Insights was engaged by the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities, the Australian Water Partnership and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to analyse the cooling benefit of urban forestry and irrigation for the city of Amaravati in India, which is currently under construction....

The Canberra Better Suburbs Statement found that healthy waterways were essential for a liveable suburb and a liveable city as a whole. The ACT Healthy Waterways Project supports the delivery of a liveable city as it will improve the quality of water entering ACT lakes...

Local government is the ‘engine room’ of open space and green infrastructure planning. Historically, green infrastructure has been designed in isolation, park by park. But we now know that by integrating components of the city, we can reinvest the public realm to solve multiple, overlapping...

Mosaic Insights worked alongside Alluvium to develop the Yarra Strategic Plan Performance Objectives. Acknowledging the context of the Yarra as one of Victoria’s most iconic waterways, and a fundamental contributor to Melbourne’s liveability, this project was vitally important in continuing to build on that. The Yarra Strategic...

Maribyrnong City Council experiences a large urban heat island effect due to its high levels of impervious surfaces from transport and industrial corridors, and low levels of vegetation cover. This contributes to the heat vulnerability of people living and working in the Council. Mosaic Insights with...

Rising populations, increasing urbanisation, climate change and growing chronic health challenges all threaten the liveability of cities. However, these issues are not insurmountable, and can be addressed in part by the deliberate integration of nature into the built environment, an increased and more sophisticated use...