Blueprint For Living - Separate stories

A precursor to the 15 minute city, Ebenezer Howard's Garden City privileged the idea of proximity and was based on the assumption that easy access to everything from workshops and offices to schools and social life makes it a happier, easier place to be.

Professor Carlos Moreno is the man behind the 15-minute city. He joins us to discuss the origins of the concept, the personal and political history that informed his approach to urbanism and why the 15 minute city has engendered such a powerful backlash.

Jill Dupleix on the scourge of kingfish crudo and burrata and the cultural and economic conditions that have stifled the imaginative capacity of chefs and diners alike.

Glass is the material of fantasies. It's the nearest one can get to building with nothing but air.

The question of what should follow in the wake of the decision to end native forest logging in Victoria has exposed deep divisions over how best to manage Australian forests.

Doyenne of Australian home cooking, culinary icon and prolific cookbook author Stephanie Alexander on the virtues of vegetables and simplicity and why curiosity, not moralism, will expand young palates.

Paul Bangay takes us on a tour of the garden in spring, featuring tulips, crab apples, apple blossoms, bay and the perennially neglected wallflowers.Find more of Paul's Garden Rudimentals on the ABC RN website.

As the New York Times wrote in 1888, they were 'invented by a fool to diminish the visual capacity of an idiot'. They were, it added, 'the sign of a weak head, not a weak eye.'

Sustainability, wellbeing, placemaking, innovation, liveability: welcome to the hollowed-out language of architecture in the 21st century.

A pioneer of independent and youth fashion in the 1970s and 1980s, Singapore-born Melbourne designer Clarence Chai is a superstar in Melbourne's design and fashion history.