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Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout
Aside from Montreal, which Canadian cities are doing the best to transform public space?
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Montreal seems to be doing it on an entirely other level than any place in the country.
Where I am, there are as many
misses as
hits. And some of the latter are still works in progress with plenty of time to whiff.
Pier 8 is another that has a promenade completed last year, awaiting development within its confines.
The best seem to have just been kept very simple, and given time to grow into themselves. Like
Bayfront and
Pier 4 parks in Hamilton, not far west of that to-be-completed "hit" I linked, which were transformed from industrial land and landfill in the early 1990s.
Bayfront (those trees were quite modest 30 years ago!):