In many cities the most socially vulnerable people also live in the hottest urban areas.

A recent pilot study in Melbourne suggested that integrating social and environmental data could help cities plan better: by planning for and planting more trees, educating communities (and themselves) on the benefits, and encouraging community champions could all help improve the places where we live, and our resilience to urban heat.

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AILA Queensland is holding its first event for 2016, and its the latest in its always-popular Beautiful Parks series. At this breakfast event on Wednesday 2 March, Paul Hardyman of Urbis will present the design concept for Howard Smith Wharves, about to start construction in Brisbane, whilst AILA Qld President Shaun Walsh will discuss the ChonGae Canal redevelopment and Songdo Central Park in Seoul.

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Image: Ken Eckert via Wikimedia Commons.

The results from a study in Illinois show that students do better when their classrooms have a view of trees and landscape, compared with a view of carparks or no view out at all.

The researchers found there is a causal link, and that “green views produced better attentional functioning and stress recovery.”

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Back in the '80s photographer Robert Polidori got the gig of documenting extensive restoration work at Versailles. From priceless paintings leaning casually against the walls of empty rooms, to these plants at l'Orangerie, there is a melancholy quality in his shots of the once-glittering palace.

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