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Before / After. Avenue Daumesnil, Paris.
From https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1dkyifx/before_after_avenue_daumesnil_paris/
I mean, if north american streets could look like picture 1, that would already be a huge step.
Yeah by my standards pic 1 looks fantastic. For anyone who thinks otherwise, whatever you do, don’t move to an American city.
Totally agree. At least the merchants aren’t completely shut off from customers and the trees look great.
It’s better for your mental health, too.
Physical health as well
But where are the poor poor cars going to park? Won't anybody think of the cars?!?
"But there will be bugs, and what about my allergies!"
I have a suspicion that a ton of allergies are the result of avoiding nature except where it is a mono culture like lawns and three plant landscaping where the body only adapts to a limited number of irritants and overreacts for others.
Fun fact: many cities had issues with female fruiting trees because their fruits would rot on the ground, causing bad smells and rodents. So they replaced them with male trees.
Unfortunately for allergy sufferers, this increased pollen counts exponentially. But that's not all. Because these trees can "sense" that they are competing with other male trees, they produce even more pollen than they normally would.
Edit: My information is outdated! It was based on an article that I read back in the early 2000s and it looks like it's been debunked.
Would it have been possible to pay a crew to clean up the fruits?
In an age where cities are getting less and less tax revenue, replanting new trees that don't fruit is often more cost effective in the long run.
And even if you did hire a crew, they aren't going to get every piece of rotted fruit. Animals, being what they are, will bury or hide them.
This is only partially true. Not all trees, and not even most trees, have exclusively one gender. There's not that much scientific evidence supporting your claim of a conscious effort to plant certain gendered trees resulting in exponentially higher levels of pollen
So I had to look this up.
My information was based on an article that I read back in the early 2000s and it looks like it's been debunked.
Thanks for checking it and the update, that's cool of you
That's literally one way allergies form.
https://evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/EVIDoa2300311
Exposure to allergens makes you less likely to be allergic to them.
I'll take the first one too. Much nicer than where I live.
The top one is not that bad. A lot of places look much worse.
I wouldnt call that nature but its a hell of a lot better than pavement hell.
Wow, greenery sure makes things brighter. /s
Yeah it looks like the top picture was taken with an old webcam
Thanks for the detective work. Maybe it’s because the top picture looks like autumn and the bottom one is spring which makes the comparison pop so much
The bottom picture makes me happy. ☀️
I can only dream that my city could look like the first picture let alone the second one.
But that would make the temperature colder and it was finally getting comfy up in here!
not even remotely similar to what "back to nature" would mean
Then the buildings and sidewalk would be overgrown. This is giving a bit of it back to nature.