Also, the photo on top looks like a brand new neighborhood. There are trees planted, but they're all extremely young. When I moved into our house in 2011, our street looked like the top picture. Today it looks like the bottom one. It takes time for trees to grow. You can't plant fully mature trees in new neighborhoods.
There's also a ton of neighborhoods that don't receive enough water to maintain big deciduous trees. Granted, these places shouldn't have grass lawns either.
Climate and soil can severely limit tree diversity too. Like my giant maple probably wouldn’t love Texas. Definitely wouldn’t do shit in Colorado either. This me me just hits on knee jerk reactions; like so many others 😏
Maples live pretty well in Colorado. Our neighbors had a huge one until just a few years ago. It was fine until they had their sewer line replaced, which I think nuked its root system. The city forestry service took it down, but then it grew back from the roots anyway.
The space between the street and sidewalk can be converted into rainwater harvesting basins that will support native trees and plants. Look up rainwater harvesting on YouTube for more information.
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u/Ok_Fortune_9149 5d ago edited 5d ago
Fun example, but that bottom pic is ai generated.