Concrete / Jungle
Tim De Chant collects satellite photos of urban neighborhoods that show the correlation between tree density and income inequality (poorer neighborhoods have fewer trees, wealthier neighborhoods have more trees). HE IS RIGHT. I have seen this with my own two (2) eyes. Matt O’Brien did some research with De Chant’s theory in the Bay Area and it checks out. Is your neighborhood green or grey? (Mine is grey, but rent is still one million dollars. But if I wanted to live where it was green, it’d be TWO million dollars, because New Yooorrrrkkkkk.)
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Previously on The Billfold
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Mine is very green. But much of Toronto is very green, and the places that aren’t are the more expensive ones!
@Megano! Toronto IS a pretty green city. Mine is also very green. Also (revealing details) my street name has the word green and the name of a tree in it. soooo yeah.
@redheaded&crazy Mine is named after a MANOR HOUSE, because there is an Edwardian manor house across the street.
I love using maps to show stuff like this! Maps can be so dynamic and be used to analyze so much about the way we live, I miss working with them all the time.
/geography nerd.
This is interesting! My block is pretty grey, but, yeah, New York/Jersey.
i live on an island, in the harbor…so mine would be pretty blue, i guess?
@wearitcounts Oooooh, I used to be in a blue suburb. Even more expensive than the green ones, they are!
@TARDIStime they sure can be. i lucked out big time with my apartment. but i live in a neighborhood of very wealthy people.
My town is pretty much just green, with scattered bits of gray here and there.