You go from this (nice random trees to sit under, probably 60-80 year old palm trees):
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4219...7i16384!8i8192
To a sterile landscape architecture student's final project.
And don't get me started on when ASU ripped out all of the original 100+year old palm trees on Palm Walk to replace them with the new date palms because "they were likely nearing the end of their lifespan".
Academics can't get out of their own way sometimes.