Can Toronto learn to love winter?, by Christopher Hume (Toronto Star) - The Diigo Meta page

• 01 Feb 09
  

  Yule Heibel

  Christopher Hume asks if Torontonians (living along the largest river in Egypt?) can learn to love it - winter, that is. What I find particularly useful are the suggestions for ...urban winter stations (for want of a better name). See highlighted bits.

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  • The design of the city itself affects the way we relate to the seasons.

    "It sounds strange," says Toronto architect James Brown, "maybe even dangerous, but I think we should have regulated places, specific sites, where people can have bonfires. There are a number of places where you could do that safely, especially along the waterfront. We also need to create amenities, places where people can get a cup of coffee and a bun."

    Brown also suggests that "five-ton stake trucks be parked every 1,000 metres in places such as Coronation Park and the Martin Goodman Trail. They would sell everything from cold beer to hot chocolate.

    "Part of it's the winter," says landscape architect Janet Rosenberg, "part of it's a head space. You need winter programming as well as ways to try to make it comfortable for people."

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