DeForest City Blues: Make room for trees PT 2

Concerning London’s tree cover: There’s a bigger pest than the emerald ash borer and the Japanese beetle. Most trees in DeForest City have been lost to ‘dozers, chain saws and axes wielded by an assorted collection of homo sapiens.

Politicians, policy makers, voters in favour of sprawl, home developers and designers.

From any relatively high vantage point within the city it immediately becomes evident that London is a low, wide, deforested city. The average height of all London’s building stock is likely little more than 2.50 floors. 

Once we begin to strive toward a high, compact city, a variety of trees will return, with little help from the man with the ax.  

[Photos by G.Harrison]

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Are there bigger pests, re trees, than those mentioned?

Please click here to read Deforest City Blues: Make more room for trees PT 1