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Originally Posted by montréaliste
Yep. Treeless streets are miserable, unless the architecture is grandiose, or substantially interesting.
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yep. trees and alleys are two of my all time favorite details for residential side streets.
compare these two bungalow belt streets from chicago. the first is classic chicago bungalow belt with alleys and parkway trees. it's not mind-blowing or anything, but still legitimately pleasant. the second is from the extreme NW side out by o'hare. they didn't run alleys through so every house has a garage right on the street with a driveway and then they put the sidewalk directly on the street curb, so no parkway/tree lawn for street trees.
i could easily live here without hating my life:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9537...7i16384!8i8192
W! T! F! (would someone,
ANYONE, plant a goddamn tree?):
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9654...7i16384!8i8192
those two examples so clearly demonstrate to me how we didn't have to build ugly residential streets that suck, we
chose to.