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Vancouver (and to a lesser extent Seattle, Washington, DC & Atlanta) do a great job mixing the urban forest and density. Many European cities do as well. Living in concrete boxes doesn't mean there has to be a dearth of trees. It's just most North American cities don't really invest in their trees (heck they don't even invest enough in our kids, so trees are pretty far down on the priority list).


Some cities do have tree canopy goals and survey for tree cover, for example, here’s seattles website linking to some reports: http://www.seattle.gov/trees/canopycover.htm

And raw dataset: http://data-seattlecitygis.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/0b8c...

I remember seeing canopy goals in some southern cities as well, think it depends on bioregional factors along with citizen/cultural interest.


Urban planning in US cities is pretty shit. Even the “well planned” green cities could use a lot of work.


Totally agree about Seattle. Even downtown has a lot of large, beautiful trees. So pretty there.




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