Misc. Parks and Greenspace Projects

[SarcasticMarmot]

Alot going on at Mary Burlie. With the on CN rail overpass scraped clean and the Remand now gone, seems like a wasted opportunity to have tied these 3 properties together into something great. Too bad the City, Province, and Qualico couldn't have cooperated.

 

[BrettB]

Not sure what this study proves, but StastCan released a study of urban greenness. Edmonton is greener than Calgary, but not as green as the three largest cities in Canada.

	%	%	percentage point change
	Average greenness, 2000 to 2004	Average greenness, 2021 to 2025	Difference
Toronto, Ontario	73.0	62.2	-10.7
Montréal, Quebec	78.5	69.8	-8.7
Vancouver, British Columbia	82.6	66.7	-15.9
Calgary, Alberta	54.1	33.5	-20.6
Edmonton, Alberta	63.0	46.6	-16.4

 

[archited]

^ What kind of survey is this... makes no sense.

 

[Seamusmuldrew]

Yeah definitely a bit of flawed methodology. They measure using Population Centres, so cities like Vancouver and Montreal include a bunch of agricultural land because of their weird patchwork of suburbs.

Whereas we have very little ag land in ours.

Would be interesting to see the numbers with agricultural land excluded from the study. It is technically green space, and is better for heat island effect etc, but it's private land that I wouldn't personally consider green or open space.

Also, from what I can tell they used the same boundaries (2021 population centres) for both time periods so the 2000-04 numbers include a huge amount of farmland that at the time wouldn't be considered within the population centre, right?

 

[David A]

Also we really haven't expanded our river valley parks much, if any, in recent decades. So as our city increases in size the percentage of green space goes down accordingly.

 

[TAS]

Four benches like these have been added to Ezio Faraone Park (southeast corner as you enter High Level Bridge). City also added some new landscaping (rocks) in another section that looks like it will be home to annual flower planting.

 

[Airboy]

Heard a rumor that Hawryluk opens over the holidays for skating

 

[TAS]

I was in Montreal a few weeks ago and they were just about to open a downtown public skating rink.

Ice District still not open.

 

[northlands]

^ which is crazy, I took this pic Nov 18 and figured at the time they’d be opening shortly

 

[Gronk!]

Outdoor ice skating in Edmonton is late due to a warmer than normal November and early December (despite the snow).