Trees improve urban life, but they’re not equitably distributed. As
cities try to fix this, they now can quickly get a sense of what
neighborhoods and streets need them most.
A new map of Los Angeles highlights one form of inequality: which of the
city’s streets and homes get the benefit of shade from the the city’s
10-million-plus trees. The city is the first to pilot a new tool from
Google, called Tree Canopy Lab, that was used to create the map.
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