taal
Senior Member
You're missing the point. In central Toronto the parks and public spaces tend to be more widely used and better integrated into their communities than in the suburbs. People use the public realm more in central areas, while in suburban areas people are more restricted to the private realm. This is well documented and not exactly controversial. And it's one of the main reasons that the design of suburbs has been changing to a more traditional built form, like in Cornell or Oak Park.
To be fair, the same criticisms can be made of places like Etobicoke and Scarborough. It's not a municipal boundary issue, it's an issue of built form and how people use the spaces around them.
Your staying the obvious and I'm not sure what your getting at.
Of course parks are better used in central Toronto, of course there are more people on the sidewalks ... and there will always be no matter what happens in any of these developments i.e. MCC, Markham, NYCC even (although it's my favourite).
But at the same rate that doesn't mean such areas should have great squares - they're still used by people! Take NYCC for example - the square we have is used a lot in the summer! I think it's very nice. I've been to the one at MCC and it's lacking in many ways, I think this will help.
Anyway the point is, what exactly are you trying to argue here?
Other then stating facts which are obviously the case and will never change no mater what anyone tells you.