{"id":758,"date":"2006-05-07T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=758"},"modified":"2006-05-07T03:18:02","modified_gmt":"2006-05-07T07:18:02","slug":"the-suburban-urban-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/05\/07\/the-suburban-urban-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"The suburban urban forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"475\" height=\"316\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/17\/21404096_e38d355f0e.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Sunday&#8217;s Toronto Star, Kenneth Kidd has a great piece about the urban forest in suburbia:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;The houses duly go up, some of that topsoil gets put back for the lawns, and in come the happy new homeowners dreaming of a green and leafy suburb to be. There&#8217;s just one snag: It may be decades before the place will begin to support the kind of trees the homeowners want.&#8221;It&#8217;s really not the first generation of trees that&#8217;s going to be this spectacular canopy that you see in those old neighbourhoods of any town or city,&#8221; says Richard Ubbens, chief of urban forestry for Toronto. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be the second generation that starts to form that canopy.&#8221; In other words, it could take more than a century &#8212; and generations of homeowners &#8212; before that subdivision starts looking like verdant Riverdale. The problem: The kind of soil that trees need and the way they actually grow both happen to run counter to a lot of popular misconceptions, and headfirst into modern building techniques.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Todd Irvine, <em>Spacing<\/em>&#8216;s Green Space columnist and one of the magazine&#8217;s founders, is a major source in the story.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/wvs.topleftpixel.com\">Sam Javanrouh<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Sunday&#8217;s Toronto Star, Kenneth Kidd has a great piece about the urban forest in suburbia: &#8230;The houses duly go up, some of that topsoil gets put back for the lawns, and in come the happy new homeowners dreaming of a green and leafy suburb to be. 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