This is our first story in a short series on activating public space in the winter.
Weather impacts who Canadians are as a people and greatly influences when and how we choose to go outside and spend time in public space. Quite frankly, most often we abandon our public spaces – aside from skating rinks and hills where we ski, board and sled – for the colder months of the year, re-emerging at the first sign of Spring and sporting short sleeves probably before we should. There is a reason why Canada’s largest city, Toronto, is considering expanding what is already the world’s largest urban tunnel system, connecting much of the downtown business district.
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from cities around the world. This week we bring you a bus yard turned wetland in Los Angeles, the tight urbanism of alleyways, Chattanooga’s typographic urban landscape, and Vancouver’s plan to say goodbye to its downtown viaduct.
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from cities around the world. This week we bring you 10 lessons from the world’s top cycling cities, ‘Roof topping’ photos, the cost of traffic jams and the art of wayfinding.
Our February newsletter features our best original articles from the past month and ideas we like all about public space and urban experiences. This month we have our first video featuring a ‘Crazy Piano Guy,’ a surprising parking garage, New York City doing it right on the waterfront and special gardens throughout Montreal’s core.
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