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Originally Posted by Via Chicago
"If we show you a map of tree canopy in virtually any city in America, we're also showing you a map of income," says Jad Daley, president and CEO of the nonprofit American Forests. "And in many cases we're showing you a map of race and ethnicity."
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I just
knew that trees were racist!
Seriously though, is that cities
aren't planting trees in poorer areas, or is it just that larger lot, more heavily forested areas tend to be more desirable?
In Toronto's case, there looks to be a bit of overlap between high tree coverage and high incomes:
https://www.corporateknights.com/cha...0850-14405688/
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/...8/m003-eng.htm
But there's also an inverse relationship with higher densities:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/...fig1_304186957
As well as with industrial land uses: (purple on the map)
https://www.treehugger.com/urban-des...en-zoning.html
And then there's also a relationship between the Italian population and lack of tree coverage (that whole big tree-less western corridor were the traditional Italian immigrant neighbourhoods - gotta chop down those trees for the backyard gardens!).