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Why do so many Toronto street trees die, but as Detroit Blog shows, trees can grow just fine on the top of abandoned skyscrapers. Maybe if we abandoned the city, the trees would grow. Though perhaps Detroit’s urban prairie is not the example we should look to here. Still, these are tenatious trees. Like theContinue readinghttp://www.detroitblog.org/images/night-tree.jpg