With its archipelago lake system lapping at the shores of red-patched villages, Sweden's urban landscape doesn't really look much like Australia's. But that hasn't stopped Swedish and Australian representatives sharing a 'Partnership for Sustainable Cities'. Touring Australian cities earlier this year, the concept's creator, architect Ulf Ranhagen, of Lulea University, Lulea, joked that since the partnership began in the late 1990s, Australian cities have been turning a bit Swedish green around the edges.