John Castiglione: Why should the core of a major metro city be considered "deficient" when it comes to nature access?

For my Climate Lab column, I made a map of how much nature is in every neighborhood in America. Spending time in nature is positively correlated with living longer & healthier. 🌳 Search the map and look up your neighborhood here: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... 1/6

Analysis | Mapping America’s access to nature, neighborhood by neighborhoodwww.washingtonpost.com Spending time in nature is linked to a longer, healthier life. But nature is not distributed fairly across the country.

Why should the core of a major metro city be considered "deficient" when it comes to nature access?

Yeah, framing it as “access” is misleading. The guy is talking about “nature” as a matter of being integrated into the built environment, rather than the potential of anyone to go to a natural setting.

Yeah I think that's right. Still a smidge off, to me - I dont think the core should have much nature to it. It needs to be super dense, prevent sprawl.

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