Downtown, the university and the city’s oldest neighborhoods form much of this sector’s landscape. While the arterial streets and highways radiate from downtown, most of the other streets form a grid pattern that is often lined with sidewalks and occasionally complemented by street trees.

Thoroughfares
The major corridors, including Broadway, Central Street, Magnolia Avenue, Western Avenue and Middlebrook Pike, serve as gateways to the city. They have such transportation significance and potential for streetscape improvements that they are discussed in the corridor section.

The other thoroughfares are typically two-lane streets with adjoining sidewalks. Only a few, such as Cecil Avenue and Washington Avenue, have planting strips between curbs and sidewalks where trees have been planted.

Neighborhoods
The number of trees and their condition varies considerably. Tree topping has been a widespread practice, resulting in extensive decline of the urban forest. Two approaches are recommended: (1) creating programs whereby yard trees are planted and properly maintained, and (2) planting street trees in planting strips.

• Baxter Avenue
• Chickamauga Avenue
• Cedar Avenue
• Pershing Street
• Morelia Avenue
• Burwell Avenue
• Springdale Avenue
• Caldwell Avenue
• Quincy Avenue
• Columbia Avenue
• Oglewood Avenue
• Churchwell Avenue
• Oak Hill Avenue

• Emerald Avenue
• Oldham Avenue
• Woodland Avenue
• Scott Avenue
• Oklahoma Avenue
• Anderson Avenue
• Folsom Street
• Fremont Place
• Armstrong Avenue
• Glenwood Avenue
• Harvey Street
• Kern Place
• Cornelia Street

• Kenyon Street
• Washington Avenue
• Jefferson Avenue
• Woodbine Avenue
• E. Fifth Avenue
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue
• Magnolia Avenue
• Linden Avenue
• Glenwood Avenue
• Monroe Street
• Boruff Street
• Dodson Avenue

• Bertrand Street
• Polk Street
• Spruce Street
• Chestnut Street
• Tecoma Drive
• Cherry Street
• Washington Pike
• Connecticut Avenue
• Delaware Avenue
• Louisiana Avenue
• Tennessee Avenue
• Keith Avenue

The width of the strips varies as does on-street parking and utility factors; consequently, such planting considerations as choice of species and spacing should be taken up on a case-by-case basis.