Cutting down London’s Trees Costs the City Billions
You can define normal how you want, but my way comes from seeing trees as normal. The old headline seems to treat lack of trees as normal.
Instead of cutting down trees and putting up buildings, how about cutting down buildings and putting up trees?
I sweated through my shirts immediately going outside. But my home state in the winter ranges between 0C and 15C in October.
I work near the new building at 1550 mission and they've put trees down in front of that building and the street is instantly nicer.
Secondly, this attitude about not cutting trees is causing many trees from not getting planted. Because there are utilities that lie underneath and if they need to be repaired 15 years later, trees are in the way.
Yes, please. Living in NYC I have seen so many trees disappear. Every single remodel or development cuts down every green thing and paves over anything which can spawn life. It makes the neighborhood look bare revealing all the dirt and grime.
The natural vegetation in many parts of the highveld here naturally had almost no trees. (Pretoria does have a lot of trees naturally.)
Berlin is the only city in the world with more trees today than Johannesburg.
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when I think of Toronto I think more of this:
In German cities in my experience treets often seem more imposing or covering more space, maybe that's the difference as North American streets are much wider.