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Good morning. A great urban park needs a few essential elements – more on that below, along with a date for the U.S. vice-presidential debate and a stairway to housing density. But first:Back in the mid-1800s, North American urbanites looking for fresh air and a green reprieve had to make do with a stroll through a graveyard. This was a particular bummer for Frederick Law Olmsted, who believed city dwellers deserved public parks designed for, crucially, “the human presence.
These days, of course, space in the city is far harder to come by, especially for the “sense of enlarged freedom” that Olmsted had in mind. Park planners need to do more with less to encourage people passing through to actually stick around. Writer Linda Besner dives into this topic in her state of the union onfor The Globe and Mail: “At first glance, an iconic park and a so-so park look much the same: grass, trees, a path of some kind,” she says.
That echoes the findings of the studies Besner mentions: Sure, baseball diamonds and tennis courts sound nice, but largely people are looking for a free place to sit down. When we get the chance to linger, we’re far likelier to pet someone’s dog or kick back a soccer ball to a group of teenagers. A full 50 per cent of Vancouver’s park-goers had an interaction that day with a stranger – and there’s the human presence that Frederick Law Olmsted was always banging on about.
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