Why cities should plant more trees 

They make the cities look nicer too

To be honest I think trees are a great way to break up cities anyway. The endless concrete jungle can really feel depressing and it adds a bit of life to the city.

I'm surprised this isn't common sense to urban planners yet

You'd think this would be obvious.

One solution is making rooftops greener: rooftops are spaces nobody uses anyways. And it doesn't have to be trees, you can use all sorts of plants really.

Not to mention the fact that greener cities are more beautiful

In Singapore, Trees are everywhere.

Trees are lit.

I went to Singapore last year and it is so amazing how they have trees almost everywhere you look. Somehow they'll find space to plant a tree. Along roads, between blocks of apartments, beside traffic lights. There isn''t a single second outside a building where you won't see a tree

One example of a city that understands this is Vancouver. They go as far as to plant trees on the tops of buildings there. It's one of the most beautiful cities I've visited.

Stop speaking in Fahrenheit! Speak in Celsius already! You think the whole world lives in the stone age like you ?

My bus route always go through a 1 block park. When you pass through it, the air feels clean, fresh and cooler than the whole travel. It's amazing how trees filter the air

This video needs to go viral.

1:24 just you putting some images of trees in makes the city look better and more futuristic 10/10 would live there

I still can't believe how Vox can make quality content every single day

Cities should also consider setting up moss and lichen walls. Moss can take up way more carbon dioxide from atmosphere than trees.

It is such a shame that the people of my hometown is petitioning to cut down some trees for improvements. That's just a shame.

I'm gonna start planting trees everywhere I go. Hopefully they grow.

Everyone should plant trees!

Thank God Central park is as big as it is. Really smart move when urbanizing Manhattan back in the day. Lot of trees in NYC.

If trees provided wifi, cities would look like forests. Too bad they only help us breathe.

I really want more cities to have nice gardens. Not only does it look nice it'll also have a really good affect on attitude, economy, and environment.

I live in Portland! It is practically a forest in the suburbs and sometimes the city!

Farenheid? Dude, this is youtube, it is an international plataform, use international system, please!!

in here Singapore with have a lot of trees!

Nice Video, but the initial statement is just outright wrong, more people living in cities doesn't mean more cars, more factories and more pollution. The exact OPPOSITE is the case. People that live in cities have significatnly LOWER carbon footprints per person, drive less carmiles per person and use less energy per person than those living in rural areas with comparable standards of living. More people in general produce more smog and CO2, but people living in densely populated cities use much less energy and produce less smog than people living in widespread suburbs, with less energy density, bigger distances to cross by car and more sealed/destroyed natural landmass per person. Just think about this: Who uses more energy, drives more miles and uses up more natural space, 1000 people living in one single building, or a 1000 people in 500 buildings spread across several squarekilometers?

Vancouver and Singapore plants the most number of trees per square meter foot in the world

I tried for years to get the city (where I was an urban planner) to plant new urban trees and preserve existing ones. Instead they did the opposite. Smh...politicians are tough to work with sometimes.

I thought this was just common sense

Surely this is all just pure common sense? I'm shocked city planners aren't already doing this

Can we just make this go viral?

where I can see undedited satellite photo?? I want to see Jakarta and another city in Indonesia

Scrolling to see if anyone mentioned the Lorax

I've lived in semi-rural towns all my life, usually always surrounded by plant and wildlife. It not only provides a cleaner air space, but also beautiful scenery I never get bored of. My neighborhood was build on the edge of a national forest, and most of the forest comes into my backyard. It's a wonderful sight and being able to step outside into fresh air is wonderful. I do hope more major cities take to planting trees and foliage around. It would improve the life of its inhabitants (human and animal) so much more.

This is such an all-around good and somewhat obvious solution. In Finland, even the bigger cities and towns have trees planted all around, with large parks and forests nearby. It's beautiful, gives the city a unique look during each season and most importantly, helps with pollution and oxygen. I know it's not so easy to do in some parts of the world, but whenever planning or expanding cities, the greenery should be a major part of the consideration from the start.

*Reducing Urban Heat In A City* 2 simple, fundamental, effective and cheap long term solutions for reducing urban heat in a city: 1) Plant more trees near areas where there are running water in streams, canals or rivers 2) Create more running waters in streams near areas there are more trees. Notes: 1) Other vegetation do not result in as much water evaporation as water evaporation by trees 2) Trees not near running water or streams may not have enough water for water evaporation to effectively reduce ambient heat in the environment or to reduce urban heat 3) Most current air-con systems are very wasteful as they merely transfer indoor heat to outdoor, resulting in increase in the ambient temperature in the environment or increase in urban heat.

at times, Vox makes great video essays, with great visuals, graphic deisgn & content.

Singapore, the garden city!

It improves health and all around, makes places look a lot more aesthetically better. Great video.

in my small town, we praise trees and they are everywhere

Love it. Thanks for another great video!

I visited Singapore in late 2013. I was deliberately trying to find streets without trees (which is a good thing) #CityGoals

I'm moving to Saint Paul, MN and I'm really excited cuz close to the house is the Mississippi River and just across it, is a HUGE wall of trees. Its beautiful.

This is why I miss my home city of Novi Sad in Serbia... so many parks and tree-lined streets. You can walk everywhere. The city is 15 minutes away from a beautiful, very fertile mountain full of fruit orchards, so during the season there is always super-fresh organic produce you can buy at local markets. I miss it so much...

plant weed ayyy lmao

Right know Pakistan is planting 14,000,000 trees all over the country.

Atlanta is well known for our forested city, makes me proud.

The best ADVICE Vox can give! :D

Singapore is the most beautiful city on earth not without a reason: there are majestic trees everywhere

do an episode of why latvia (my country) is the 2nd greenest country in the world.. cause we've known the benifits for a while

thank you, Vox. it's a great video right here.

Wow an unbias, objective, and informative video from Vox! Do more like that guys :)

More Environmental coverage please !!

Please do a video on all the attacks which were done by migrants on in Europe

One of the reasons I love me city, trees everywhere. Probably explains why we've only just started to have smog problems, even then it's very minor.

I live in Montpellier, in Southern France there is a lot of trees, also most houses have bushes, and there are many parks. It's nice. We're lucky. And it works even though it rarely rains. Really rarely.

In my home city of Hamburg, Germany if you cut down a tree you are required by law to plant another tree.

If you live in singapore, every single place you look on the road, trees trees and more trees

I live in DC and they really helped out the pollution problem with trees

My class and me are actually doing a project about trees and this will help me a lot. (Thank you) (You have earned new subscribers)

Rubbing my screen like a physchopath at 2:00

New Year's resolution #5 Plant a tree in 2017

I just love this channel

I have many plants in my house balcony- Money Plant, Grass, Areca Palm, Holy Basil, Aloe Vera, Lily, and many more. So i don’t have any indoor air pollution. I prepare liquid fertilisers from kitchen waste and water them regularly.

Trees are awesome.

Here in Sheffield UK they're chopping down all the trees, not planting them. Shame too bc we used to be Europe's greenest major city, but have since lost that record.

I love planting trees and plants

Trees brighten up highways. Look at US-50 in Fairfax County, (just outside western D.C. Beltway) it's sad is empty. But look at Southern Maryland. Every time I go there, I can see trees along roads and highways. It's really pleasing to the eye.

Happy I live in Johannesburg, South Africa worlds biggest man made forest. But it's still pretty polluted

COVID-19: Is this my time to shine?

This is the kind of content that Iove, keep going

They also help prevent flooding :D

I love trees. The one thing this report didn't talk about is the damage caused by tree roots though. This video convinently left out this part of the study "It concluded that while trees should not replace other strategies to make air healthier, they can be used as part of a suite of interventions that aims to control particulate matter pollution as well as mitigate against rising temperatures in cities." I'll always support more trees though.

1:11 wow i live in the netherlands, i didn't even knew we had such a thing thanks vox

Keep up the go9d work Vox. I watch these videos ads fully so hope that helps

Trees also make the city look nicer Just imagine the place at 2:55 if it didn't have those trees

I appreciate how Vox actually provides solutions to problems

portland maine has an trees everywhere and its pretty nice

i never knew maple trees were so good, i had one outside my house years ago and barely got sick there when i opened my window for 10 minutes a day

Trees might be cost-effective but they dont give quick returns. It takes years fo them to be fully functional. So they cant be the only solution. Govt.s only take action when not taking an action will cost them their power.. and so they look for quick solutions whose results are visible to quickly pacify the growing unrest in public.

Changing public transport to use less fuel is great, but people should freaking use public transport!

I love the quality of your videos

Another reason why Sydney is amazing!! So many trees!!

Philippine population is booming so the government took advantage of it for every people in a house hold must plant a Tree in a selected area in the district Example: if you have a 4 people in your house the government will write your name you have to sign it then your saplings that they provided will be planted for you

I was trying to clean my screen...then it was the video

Good job VOX. (Plants inside the house also perform a similar function.) Picking the right place and the right tree matters. For example don't copy Seoul in SK. They planted thousands of Ginko trees, because they were beautiful in the fall coating the sidewalks with yellow leaves, BUT without realizing that the trees also smell terrible and the sidewalk cleanup is a horrendous problem. Urban planners should use effective but very low maintenance trees that don't smell, clog sewer lines or attract biting insects. Biking, walking, and good public transportation also lowers pollution levels.

i live in minneapolis and we have sooo many trees and it’s really nice

If every city did this or atleast the ones in the US India and china the cities would look far nicer and global warming would not be a problem for atleast another 200 years at which point you would have to replant the trees most likely and also cover new areas that have been added to the city with trees. Also I wouldn't have developed asthma in the first place

1:36 that dust on the leaves is gross!!

absolutely excellent video! trees are always over looked for their usefulness and benefits

I love this so much. The earth provides such massively abundant resources and solutions.

Oddly enough, "Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell" just released a video about cities and population growth during the same hour to this one. Coincidence?!... probably...

UGH I JUST LOVE THE EDITING OF VOX

Most people ignorantly think of trees as something that provides shade and dont realize how they can filter and clean the air as well as produce oxygen......information and videos like these help change that.

Trees are eco-friendly and beautiful!

the moment people get rid of greed for timber and quick profits then can the environment be sustained

Except those trees would occupy expensive land. Which would obviously be better used to house people, offices and factories that pollute more. /s So I'd expect large cities to not go for more trees to fight pollution, because money, money and... money.

This needs more viewers

I am surprised that there is no mention of Singapore, the 'Garden City'. If you look down from the windows of skyscrapers at its busiest roads (Orchard Road, for example), you won't be able to see anything but the canopies of trees.

If it can't be patented and make profit, then these simple solutions are overlooked.