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Most of Northwest Philly could go toe to toe with anywhere; It's surrounded by parkland. Even parts of Center City have tall old trees covering across the street.
Older areas tend to have more trees because there's less new development, trees haven't been knocked down recently for buulding, instead they had decades or centuries to grow. Weird comment by that poster. Don't expect to see a ton of trees all over Manhattan outside Central Park and some neighborhoods but there are 4 other boroughs - with many rather suburban areas (ahem - Staten Island).
Older areas tend to have more trees because there's less new development, trees haven't been knocked down recently for buulding, instead they had decades or centuries to grow. Weird comment by that poster. Don't expect to see a ton of trees all over Manhattan outside Central Park and some neighborhoods but there are 4 other boroughs - with many rather suburban areas (ahem - Staten Island).
Yep-a lot of newly developed areas have small young trees that are very bare. And even in Manhattan there are blocks covered by tall old trees.
In general, pick any city in the South, be it Brownsville, Houston, New Orleans, Miami, Savannah, Atlanta, or Asheville, and it is going to have lots of lush tree-covered neighborhoods (and green year-round for areas in the region with milder winters).
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Most of Northwest Philly could go toe to toe with anywhere; It's surrounded by parkland. Even parts of Center City have tall old trees covering across the street. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0575...uDqMM0GAEQ!2e0
No one denies Philly has a lot of Parkland and HUGE Fairmont Park. THE THREAD TOPIC IS ABOUT HAVING ...."A LOT" of tree-covered neighborhoods. But the Heart of Philly has ROW HOMES ON TIGHT STREETS. MANY PLAIN BRICK WALL TO WALL ONES, TO THE NARROW SIDEWALKS? ESPECIALLY POOR NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE LESS TREES.
MILES OF THESE ROWS HAVE NO BACK YARDS OR SOME back yards at least? IT IS THESE WITH NO GREEN SPACE IN FRONT OR TREES? SOME OUT PLANTERS OUTSIDE. Gentrified and redevelopment add trees today. In better neighborhoods.
I do know Philly built especially after ww2 does have tree lined neighborhoods
Again.... these .......pictures Proves it
Tight Rows ⤵ and this plenty trees in distance in New Jersey
Most of Northwest Philly could go toe to toe with anywhere; It's surrounded by parkland. Even parts of Center City have tall old trees covering across the street.
Ignorant posters don't know that Philly has massive parks like Fairmount and Pennypack. Isn't Fairmount Park the largest municipal park in the country?
Both the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are composed almost entirely of neighborhoods with shady, tree-lined streets.
I believe the OP, however, is asking for cities that have tree-covered neighborhoods in which trees form a cathedral over streets. Before Dutch Elm Disease decimated elm populations, every single street in the Twin Cities was a cathedral; these days, there's more arboreal diversity so the cathedral effect isn't as prominent.
Ignorant posters don't know that Philly has massive parks like Fairmount and Pennypack. Isn't Fairmount Park the largest municipal park in the country?
It didn't say parks though. It said neighborhoods and Philly does not have a lot of tree covered neighborhoods.
Not a lot of them in Los Angeles. Most neighborhoods have palm trees, which block out nothing (and combined with the concrete carpet that has been laid throughout the city, makes for an unpleasant experience in the summer).
Here in Pasadena we have a couple neighborhoods like this, in particular the wealthiest neighborhoods such as the mansion districts south of California Avenue and around Orange Grove.
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