05-13-2022, 09:07 AM
(05-13-2022, 03:17 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: And frankly, we just don't invest, it wasn't a priority to have trees.
And this is not just recent, this goes back 100+ years. Our urban sidewalks tend to be narrow and rarely have space for mature trees, and those sidewalk widths were set in the way distant past.
European cities tend to have sidewalk trees even in their urban cores. One factor that drove those decisions (in Europe) is that wider streets with trees make it less easy for a fire to jump across the street and spread to the neighbouring block -- a big issue back then.