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Metros in the South are going to have lots of trees. In the inland, northern, and/or highly elevated parts of the South, the trees, more or less, will be deciduous, or of the pine upland variety; this includes cities of the Piedmont, such as Atlanta, and Charlotte. In the southern, coastal portions of the South, evergreen subtropical jungles and rainforests start taking shape, featuring areas of pine, along with broadleaf evergreens such as magnolia, bay trees, or hollies; examples of cities with these types of forests include Brownsville, Houston, New Orleans, Miami, Savannah, and Charleston, up to southern coastal Virginia.
Outside of the South, metros in the Coastal PNW have lots of trees, like Seattle and Portland, as does areas of Hawaii.
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CHICAGO is a city with plenty of trees and front green space in front of neighborhood homes. Most of the city laid out with good sized frontage in all neighborhoods and front Lawns, especially through its Bungalow housing belt.
Old Chicago Lincoln Park Neighborhood late 1800s. ABUNDANCE of trees and green.
I don't know, but I wonder if many cities have super loud cicadas like Kansas City does. There are more trees here in Maryland than back in Missouri. But now I can hear myself think when I'm outside on summer evenings! I kind of miss that noise though.
I would say Atlanta though.
Here's how I'd describe a summer sunset in Missouri:
1. The sound of the dying cicadas
2. The feeling of dry heat radiating up from the ground
3. The smell of diesel and dust
4. The sight of white dust all over every pickup truck, and half the cars too
5. The sound of a train's horn in the distance
6. The feeling of drying off inside a hot car after getting picked up from the lake or the community pool
7. The smell of food cooking on an outdoor grill
8. The sight of lightning in the distant, side-lit thunderheads on the horizon
9. The sound of distant radio stations in Kansas City through barely audible fuzz
10. The feeling that summer will never end
11. The smell of dung from an Angus cattle pasture
12. The sight of the sun's dying rays glistening orange and pink off the glassphalt
Dam, I felt poetic for a second! But yeah, summers in Missouri were fun for me.
Chicago has a lot of trees, especially on the North and Northwest sides. Neighborhoods like Sauganash, Forest Glen, Edison Park, Lincoln Park, Ravenswood Manor for example have 42 - 48 % tree canopy:
I don't know if the raw density of trees is especially unusual in the Seattle and Portland metros. But the fact that it's mostly giant, old-growth firs (outside the core city neighborhoods that were platted at a time when, I assume, deciduous trees were fashionable because they evoked the Northeast) makes these metros feel much more forested than most. These trees just dwarf the houses.
San Antonio has the most extensive tree cover of any major U.S. city. Even with its semi-arid climate, San Antonio's tree canopy of 38 percent ranks first among the nation's 50 largest cities.
We rank ahead of cities with much higher rainfall — like Seattle, New Orleans and Atlanta. In Texas, we rank ahead of Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin. With the nation's best urban tree canopy, why impose even stricter government regulations?
I'm surprised Atlanta is winning by such a large amount of votes. Atlanta has nearly doubled 2nd place Seattle. Lots of cities have lots of trees so why is Atlanta standing out so much from the rest of the cities?
I'm surprised Atlanta is winning by such a large amount of votes. Atlanta has nearly doubled 2nd place Seattle. Lots of cities have lots of trees so why is Atlanta standing out so much from the rest of the cities?
Doesn’t surprise me at all that Atlanta has more tree canopy than Seattle. Seattle is a much denser city than Atlanta (9000 people versus 4000/sq mi). Standard SFH lot sizes in Seattle is about 0.1 acre, which means most of the lot is the house. Also lots of properties in Seattle have water views (the city is an isthmus surrounded by water) so there is pressure to not have huge trees blocking views there.
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