Two things: 1 developers have been allowed to clear every single tree from their sites for decades.
2. Many of the people moving to these horrid new soulless subdivisions don’t like trees, and not only destroy the ones planted along the streets, but resist any efforts to plant more or the idea of planting any in their back yards.
It looks more like they’re built out as very dense single-family housing, which doesn’t really leave space for trees. You live better at that density by using multifamily structures and leaving some open space for kids to play and trees to grow.
There’s actually plenty of room for trees, if they plan for retaining them, and / or if new trees are allow to grow.
I heard a presentation by a senior landscape architect from Sydney who discussed the various issues in tree planting to combat the heat island effect.
One thing, interestingly enough is an immigrant cultural background in which trees can be seen as ‘messy’ and thus not to be encouraged. This is a curious phenomenon to be tackled by education.
Two things: 1 developers have been allowed to clear every single tree from their sites for decades. 2. Many of the people moving to these horrid new soulless subdivisions don’t like trees, and not only destroy the ones planted along the streets, but resist any efforts to plant more or the idea of planting any in their back yards.
It looks more like they’re built out as very dense single-family housing, which doesn’t really leave space for trees. You live better at that density by using multifamily structures and leaving some open space for kids to play and trees to grow.
There’s actually plenty of room for trees, if they plan for retaining them, and / or if new trees are allow to grow.
I heard a presentation by a senior landscape architect from Sydney who discussed the various issues in tree planting to combat the heat island effect.
One thing, interestingly enough is an immigrant cultural background in which trees can be seen as ‘messy’ and thus not to be encouraged. This is a curious phenomenon to be tackled by education.