What European City has the most trees?
 

Now that I am back in America from my first trip to Europe, I really notice how many trees our cities have in comparison to Europe. I know there is an historical reason European cities were built more densely with little room for greenery. But i missed the landscaping and forested countryside of home (Westchester County NY), as I traveled in Europe.

Outside of Munich Germany I did not really see many cities in Europe that had many trees. Just a few planted ones on major roads, no landscaping to speak of.

So, what city in Europe has the most trees?

There's lots of wood in Amsterdam.

Is this an essay question? How are we being graded for the answer as there is no completely correct reply as one cannot have visited every city. Make it a multiple choice instead to make ir somewhat fair.

Good grief, don't compare apples and oranges!

Westchester County and European cities!!!

If you must compare, compare to Manhattan.

And did you happen to notice, by any chance, that Europe is much less blighted by urban sprawl? You can actually get into the country quite quickly from most European cities. Try that in the tristate area!

Mark - Do I detect a wee bit of raunchy humor in that reply!?!? Or do i just have a dirty mind!

I never seemd to notice the lack of trees when traveling in Europe except for Madrid perhaps. London seems to have a lot of green as well.

Come on, where would you expect landscaping/gardening in the historical heart of a city? You would have to tear down half a center!
Most cities have a lot of greenery at the periphery. Berlin is thought as one of the greenest cities of the world (I think 40% of the entire city area are parks, forests etc) but also many other cities are not far behind.

Sheezus... Westchester County is NOT a city "travelguru". Compare the number of trees on Manhattan to Paris why don't ya? That's fairer.

Washington Dc is a very large urban City and has a good sized urban forest. I did not see that in the many European Cities I visited. There is limited landscaping in Europe like in America. That is my point.

So what Cities in Europe have a good sized urban forest?

just taking these posts as sincerely as they written!

BTW yes you have a dirty mind the forrest going out towards Denhaag are beautiful (snigger)

"Washington Dc is a very large urban City"

I believe it is around 70 square miles. I would not consider that very large.

Does it have to be a forest, or will a park with trees do?

Rome: Villa Borghese, Villa Ada, Villa Doria Pamphili. Among others...

But since you did 10 cities in 14 days, you didn't get a chance to see any of them.

>Washington Dc is a very large urban City and has a good sized urban forest.

Is this urban forest within the city limits of Washington from, say, 1850?

Otherwise - most cities in Germany and Switzerland I have been to have access to large stretches of forest. I really don't understand what you mean.

When I was in Zürich we had a visiting professor from Tokyo who laways complimented the city as "there is so much nature right here"!

Just look at all the parcs plus the Bois in Paris.

I see a pattern in these posts

The pattern is called "taking the piss"

I'm not sure I understand the question, as many European cities have a lot of city parks and trees. Paris, for example, I think has one of the largest amounts of space devoted to greenery of any major city. I live in Wash DC and it's not one of the largest cities in the US, which is why I like it. The city itself is only around 600K population. IN any case, it can't be compared due to its function as is was developed solely as the nation's capital and wasn't appointed that after it had a long history as a typical large city with a diverse economy. So, you don't have the factories and things like that within Washington. Of course there are now businesses built in the burbs around it, but the city itself it rather unique for many reasons. Also, the fed govt does do a good job of keeping it landscaped. It has a pretty good amount of parkland within the city, I guess, but no more than many.

There isn't any more greenery within major cities in the US than in Europe that I noticed. I lived in NY just a bit and got depressed I had to move as you had to keep your lights on in the daytime, and I really missed some greenery. I mean more on a regular basis than having to go to Central Park. I have also lived in Columbus, Ohio and Los Angeles area, and never thought of them as having tons of greenery in the city center. Okay, maybe LA has more because it is less dense and more spread out, actually. But they don't downtown.

London is full of green spaces -- maybe not ALL trees but lots of trees and gardens.

When I lived in Vienna, there were lots of chestnut trees everywhere as well as many parks.

On our trip last month to Germany, we visited a lovely park of 200 year old Plane trees on the Neckar River in Tubingen.

Trust me, the green spaces ARE there. You must not have been looking in the right places.

I will get back to you I am still counting.

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Mark - tee hee!! :)

Treeste, Treepoli and of course the beautiful town of Treeton!!!

London has the most green space of any city in the world, but I don't know if they have the most trees!