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Nearly 1,000 Neighbors Unite to Save a 115-Year-Old Tree in Mexico City
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Homeowner heartbroken after realizing neighbor's actions may have doomed decades-old property feature: 'It's a shame'
Actions from an uncompromising neighbor have left one homeowner's beloved, decades-old tree in shambles. "Anything that I can do to prevent our neighbors from fully killing our tree?" the homeowner asked in the subreddit r/DIYUK. Photo Credit: Reddit They explained that the tree has been there for 30 years and is on their own side of the property. The neighbor not only cut the branches back from their side, which is legal, but has also "tried to…
Nearly 1,000 neighbors unite to save a 115-year-old tree in Mexico City
Hundreds of residents of Mexico City’s Benito Juárez borough gathered on Monday to fight an alleged attempt by a real estate developer to cut down a 115-year-old laurel tree known as “Laureano.” The real estate company Núcleo Urbano is developing a four-story apartment building at 48 Miguel Laurent Street in the Tlacoquemecatl neighborhood, where Laureano has been growing for over a century. Drawings and signage in support of “Laureano” surrou…
The case of 'Laureano' is not isolated. In recent years, colonies such as Naples, Del Valle and Rome have seen real estate projects raze with green areas and mature trees, despite official speeches of 'sustainability'.
What a Tree in Mexico City Can Teach Us About Community, Memory, and the Right to Belong - The Dubrovnik Times
In historic cities like Dubrovnik, where every stone holds a memory and every shadow tells a story, the value of place is sacred. But what happens when that memory is threatened—not by war or erosion, but by quiet urban development? Thousands of kilometers away, on the corner of Miguel Laurent and Fresas in Mexico City’s Colonia del Valle, stands an old laurel tree — Laureano, to those who know him. Towering above the pavement, his roots anchore…
It has been over 100 years and now fear that it will suffer damage to its leaves and roots. Laureano, a tree planted in Miguel Laurent y Fresas, Tlacoquemecatl del Valle colony, mayoral Benito Juárez, according to neighbors, is threatened by the construction of a housing complex that began about a month ago in Mexico City (CDMX), although the authorities say no. Neighbors and children have raised their voices for this centennial tree of India, w…
Faced with the mobilizations and concern of neighbors, the mayor's office Benito Juárez reiterated that it has not granted any permission for the pruning of the “Laureano” tree located on the sidewalk of Miguel Laurent, in front of number 48, in the Tlacoquemécatl colony. The demarcation called on political actors to avoid disinforming neighbors and not to remove political cracks, seeking reflectors on a topic that requires responsibility and te…
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