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Originally Posted by acottawa
Central Ottawa has very few parks and they are usually small and do not support many uses (they are mostly for whatever can be done on a MUP, looking at grass and admiring 14-packs of flags).
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Central Ottawa has some of Ottawa's best, and best-used green spaces, including Dundonald, Minto, and St. Luke's parks. Yes, most of the big, federally-owned "green spaces", with the exception of Confederation Park, are useless grass.
However, apart from measuring against the arbitrary and meaningless guidelines for how much park space a population is supposed to have, central Ottawa has plenty of park space. Ottawa needs more urbanity, not more grass. It needs better buildings and better enclosed spaces, not edge vacuums and ceremonial nothings. Pyongyang has lots of big ceremonial open spaces for them that are into that sort of thing.
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Ottawa lacks a large urban park (e.g. stanley park, mount royal park, high park, central park, golden gate park, hyde park, villa borgese, etc, tiergarten, etc).
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That's a feature, not a bug. Ottawa has the same amount of park space, or more, given its area and population, just chopped up differently.
I do not take it as self-evident that there is a set point of parks that a city needs or that its population is somehow entitled to, and I despise greenspace-fetishism in every form.
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