No - one lives in a city because they enjoy being surrounded by loom concrete monoliths . Thanks tothis mapping toolfrom Portland State University , you’re able to now see precisely how lacking your city in the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree section .
As part of a project funded by the U.S. Forest Service , research worker overlaid information about air pollution , tree coverage , temperature , and some census data point like age and income on a single-valued function . The result is a color - write in code system that lets you see how tree screening is correlate with air befoulment and urban heating system . Thanks to the cellular inclusion of census data , you may also see how those effects are unfairly concentrated on wretched neighbourhoods .
14 metropolis have been mapped this path : all cities of 400,000 — 700,000 multitude , big enough to have the resource to fight for more tree planting , but small enough that the planting could make an existent difference to tune caliber .
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