Here’s another picture of trees creating street enclosure
I mentioned a couple of days ago that Center Street in Provo offers a nice example of trees being used to correct an ineffective height-to-width ratio. After I wrote that post I found the picture below and thought I’d share it.
As you can see, the buildings alone would only create a 1:3(ish) ratio on their own.
However, the trees break up the space and separate the street into two different enclosures, each with their own height-to-width ratios of about 1:1 or even 1.5:1. In other words, this is not one street but two.
It’s an elegant and cheap solution that, most importantly, works.
Which is why the North Side of Center is very different than the South Side.