New York City is about as urban as urban gets , but even concrete jungles harbour leafy life . At last count , there were 592 , 130 tree diagram in the Big Apple , and thanks to the efforts of Brooklyn - based designerJill Hubley , you could now study them all ina colored interactive mathematical function .
The single-valued function , which present the distribution of trees , gloss - coded by species , throughout New York City ’s five boroughs , was created using 2005 tree diagram census data . Zoomed all the style out , the technicolor fuzz looks like a bright star cluster in deep infinite :
you’re able to also get into as much item as you like , by clicking on single Tree to learn their identity , surge in to analyse specific neighbourhood and street ( badly , if you ever wonder what sort of tree diagram trace your block , give it a go ! ) , or using filter to face at the distribution of various species .
Left , London Plane statistical distribution , right , Silver maple distribution .
Hubley said she was surprised at the difference in the makeup of tree diagram across the city ’s boroughs . In an email to The Atlantic ’s CityLab , she writes :
I would ’ve thought the trees throughout the metropolis would be jolly homogenous in terms of the percentages planted . Instead , Brooklyn has more London Plane trees than any other coinage ( 23.6 % ) , Queens has a ton of Norway maples ( 18.3 % ) , the legal age of Manhattan ’s Tree are Honey locusts ( 23.3 % ) , and Staten Island has a gamey percentage of Callery Pyrus communis ( 24.8 % ) . The Bronx has the most equally circularize assortment of trees — Honey locust , Norway maple , and London Plane tree are all popular ( 11 - 13 % each ) .
New York City ’s trees provide a host of environmental benefits , from keep the metropolis cooler to reducing tempest water runoff to furnish habitat for local animals . represent its Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is n’t just about make pretty visualisation , it ’s about see the complexness of our urban surroundings so that we can better manage them . [ The Atlantic CityLab ]
Images reproduced with permission from Jill Hubley . you may check up on out more of her awe-inspiring visualizations on herwebsite .
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