I'm guessing they're tarmaced for cyclists? Otherwise a bit odd yeah.
Well if they're for cyclists then they're not walking trails
Can't they be both? You get some trails over here that are for both. Or if a kid wants to use rollerblades, or easier if you're pushing a pram or wheelchair etc
they definitely make trails for both (usually paved)
I'm guessing they're tarmaced for cyclists? Otherwise a bit odd yeah.
Well if they're for cyclists then they're not walking trails
Can't they be both? You get some trails over here that are for both. Or if a kid wants to use rollerblades, or easier if you're pushing a pram or wheelchair etc
they definitely make trails for both (usually paved)
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Non-asphalt trails for jogging in the sense that this sort of park would encourage are a nightmare. Especially with woodchip or pebble courses. Your options generally have to be clay, asphault, brick, or grass and if it gets any volume you won't keep the grass.
Brick would have been a fine solution, would have helped water runoff too, but it is super expensive to maintain over time.
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Part of my quibble with calling it a walking trail is also that I hate running on asphalt, as it's much more likely to cause shin splints and joint pain
And admittedly, walking isn't running, but it's pretty similar
So whenever someone puts together a walking (or running) trail but paves it, it implies to me that they're not really thinking about those aspects of walking/running when they're designing it
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I absolutely love bioswales. We have them everywhere in Florida (mostly because it happens naturally because jungle/swamp doesn't care what your landscaping plans are), but these days a lot of the Central Florida planning offices have started expanding their use and actually planning them for aesthetics.
I'd probably respectfully disagree, and feel that they are thinking of the walking/running from a health and safety point of view. At least in the UK there are a lot of rules about what materials can be used on what routes depending on footfall, capacity and equal access. Tarmac is the safest in the long run when used correctly. Wood can be slippy, hoggin/bare earth can get flooded and be difficult to move on if elderly/disabled, paving slabs slippy/hard to maintain, mowed grass can be difficult to move on.
I absolutely love bioswales. We have them everywhere in Florida (mostly because it happens naturally because jungle/swamp doesn't care what your landscaping plans are), but these days a lot of the Central Florida planning offices have started expanding their use and actually planning them for aesthetics.
Thats wonderful! I hope they spread more and more, I love them!
I'd probably respectfully disagree, and feel that they are thinking of the walking/running from a health and safety point of view. At least in the UK there are a lot of rules about what materials can be used on what routes depending on footfall, capacity and equal access. Tarmac is the safest in the long run when used correctly. Wood can be slippy, hoggin/bare earth can get flooded and be difficult to move on if elderly/disabled, paving slabs slippy/hard to maintain, mowed grass can be difficult to move on.
I mean, I'm looking at long term injuries from serious runners, so I think I'm coming at it from a kind of different field of view
It's a minor thing, I admit, but it's what I grew up around (my mother is track coach, both my parents used to do marathons, I ran in high school), and so whenever someone proclaims that their walking trail is going to be asphalt I have to suppress a shudder
I've seen a lot of busted knees and hips from running on the roads too much
I'd probably respectfully disagree, and feel that they are thinking of the walking/running from a health and safety point of view. At least in the UK there are a lot of rules about what materials can be used on what routes depending on footfall, capacity and equal access. Tarmac is the safest in the long run when used correctly. Wood can be slippy, hoggin/bare earth can get flooded and be difficult to move on if elderly/disabled, paving slabs slippy/hard to maintain, mowed grass can be difficult to move on.
I mean, I'm looking at long term injuries from serious runners, so I think I'm coming at it from a kind of different field of view
It's a minor thing, I admit, but it's what I grew up around (my mother is track coach, both my parents used to do marathons, I ran in high school), and so whenever someone proclaims that their walking trail is going to be asphalt I have to suppress a shudder
I've seen a lot of busted knees and hips from running on the roads too much
Give me packed dirt any day
Thats fair! I can certainly see it from that point of view.
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We're starting to install them here too. We get really hard rains in early winter and between all the dropped leaves from the fall we usually have a few overflowing storm drains and flooded intersections until it all gets sorted. Now they are installing those bioswales around the areas where it happens consistently.
The big park in my city has both. There's a couple miles worth of gravel/dirt walking paths AND a massive city-wide bike trail that weaves through the park.
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Yeah, I'm a big fan of bike trails too, don't get me wrong. My dad is heavily involved with the CT bike scene, and their conversion of old railroads into bike trails has been really great. There's just also a tendency to make any public trail a paved trail, which I understand (for all of the reasons discussed in this thread), but which frustrates me as someone who grew up running on trails and is currently stuck with either pavement (awful for my body) or track (awful for my not being bored out of my skull while running).
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It's funny how a lot of unpleasant design can just like super modern design, and the idea just slips on by. I'm going to keep more of an eye out.
I do think the leaning benches could be useful in a lot of places where there isn't room for a traditional bench, like when your waiting in long lines for a venue or similar things.
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In 2008, Gillespies was commissioned by Canary Wharf Group to create a unique and partially sheltered public garden that would work to unite the residential neighbourhood of Poplar and the business district of Canary Wharf. Located in the North Dock atop of Crossrail Place – a five storey mixed-use development – and Canary Wharf Crossrail Station, Crossrail Station Roof Garden is an exotic, landscaped garden that provides a new elevated shared space between the two areas – open daily from dawn till dusk. The development is the first building to open for Crossrail – London’s new east – west link.
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The City of Toronto plans to create an 8.5 hectare "signature park" that will cover the railway tracks between Bathurst Street and the Rogers Centre, Mayor John Tory announced Wednesday afternoon.
"I believe that creating a new downtown park is the best thing that we can do for future generations," he said. "Not just any park, a big park, a bold park."
In a release, the city said the initiative "is part of the City's TOcore project, a response to the rapid growth and intensification of Toronto's downtown that is placing pressure on physical and social infrastructure."
Coun. Joe Cressy, representing Ward 20 (Trinity-Spadina), joined the mayor at the announcement, calling the project a special initiative that will create a central destination for all Toronto residents.
"As our city grows, we need to be creative about how we create public spaces," he said. "We need to ensure we're building neighbourhoods, building communities, not just building towers."
Tory said there isn't a clear timeline or cost for the project as of yet.
"It can't be outlined with precision because it's something that's never been done before," he said, but noted that other parks in the city have cost tens of millions of dollars per acre.
For comparison, Chicago's Millennium Park, which Tory said the city would like to model the project after, cost 33 million per acre (the Toronto park will be 21 acres).
Mayor Tory says Millennium Park in Chicago, shown above, attracts locals and tourists alike. He'd like this new park to provide the same bold, innovative space for Torontonians. (CBC)
The city is hoping to get some of that money from Ottawa and the provincial government.
"I'm sure with the cooperation and partnership of our friends in Ottawa and our friends at Queen's Park, we are going to move this forward and make it happen," Tory said.
In the end, Tory believes it's an important project for making the city's downtown a more pleasant place to live.
"They [parks] are what make our city livable, enjoyable and sustainable," he said. "People will be able to gaze at the skyline on the one hand while enjoying the feeling of grass under their feet in one and the same place."
The new park will give downtown residents "breathing room," according to Mayor John Tory. (CBC)
According to the city's chief planner, Jennifer Keesmaat, downtown has the lowest amount of parkland in the city, with 75 per cent of downtown parks smaller than half a hectare.
A report will go to the mayor's executive committee on September 22, which will include an implementation strategy for the park and plans for public consultations, allowing residents the opportunity to share their thoughts and vision for the space.
Discussions with the railroads have gone positively, Tory said, as they own the air rights to the space above the tracks.
Tory said the park will complement the work going on with the Bentway, another huge new public space being built under the Gardiner.
Exciting! Its not often big cities like Toronto get brand new parks - I'll watch with interest! I wonder if it'll be an open competition, there'll be some amazing entries I'm sure.
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Almost exactly three years since public arts organization 'The STEPS Initiative' unveiled plans for the since-realized "World's Tallest Mural" at 200 Wellesley Street East, the organization is celebrating another major contribution to Toronto's public art landscape. It has been almost a month since U.K.-based street artist 'Phlegm' began work on a massive mural on the blank west face of the Padulo Building at 1 St. Clair Avenue West. This afternoon, painting of the art installation officially wrapped up.
The Wagon Station Encampment, Joshua Tree.
The wagon station encampment consists of ten a-z wagon stations, a communal outdoor kitchen, open air showers, and composting toilets.
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This is going to sound weird but I really wish I could work in Houston because then I could live in this house:
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"My photos depict a parallel world, a world that’s hidden within our world. Most of the time we’re not aware of their existence, yet these abandoned places are embedded into our everyday lives. And it’s this everyday life –with all its chaos and worries– that I want to run away from. Escapism is at the basis of my explorations, and it’s the solitude I want to capture and share through my photographs."
Reginald Van de Velde, aka Suspiciousminds, is the scouter of the unknown and the unseen. This Belgian photographer explores abandoned places around the world, no matter how difficult is to reach them, to make the most amazing frames of it. "The result of an intangible desire to explore what mankind has left behind", hospitals, monasteries, prisons, stations, impressive structures, that are now part of the past, become glorious monuments in his shots. And we had the chance to speak with him about his astonishing work with them.
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I was questioning the verbiage as much as I was the decision to use asphalt
Ahh thats cool, we've got some of those over here - I think they're great!
They probably are just tarmaced/asphalted just for access I'm guessing though.
Hey, that's a good point. Asphalt is way easier to maneuver wheelchairs and walking assist devices over.
that's definitely another reason!
Brick would have been a fine solution, would have helped water runoff too, but it is super expensive to maintain over time.
And admittedly, walking isn't running, but it's pretty similar
So whenever someone puts together a walking (or running) trail but paves it, it implies to me that they're not really thinking about those aspects of walking/running when they're designing it
Thats wonderful! I hope they spread more and more, I love them!
Somehow I don't think those are going to cut it when the great floods of the 2070s hit.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I mean, I'm looking at long term injuries from serious runners, so I think I'm coming at it from a kind of different field of view
It's a minor thing, I admit, but it's what I grew up around (my mother is track coach, both my parents used to do marathons, I ran in high school), and so whenever someone proclaims that their walking trail is going to be asphalt I have to suppress a shudder
I've seen a lot of busted knees and hips from running on the roads too much
Give me packed dirt any day
Thats fair! I can certainly see it from that point of view.
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I do think the leaning benches could be useful in a lot of places where there isn't room for a traditional bench, like when your waiting in long lines for a venue or similar things.
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edit: please tell me if these images are too big, I'm on a laptop, hard to tell!
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http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2016/08/street-artist-phlegm-completes-huge-work-yonge-and-st-clair
I do love building murals
the city still has its frequent dips into goofyness
The hashtag really makes it. I imagine the officers on the scene were just doing Terminator quotes over the radio for the next few minutes.
I clicked past in one direction and thought "Is that a shadowy man in the living room window looking out over the street?"
I click a little further "Oh man that is creepy what is he up to?"
I click a little further "Oh that is a cardboard cut out of Mr Spock never mind"
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
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http://www.wecallitstitch.com/blog/detail/between-nowhere-never-reginald-van-de-velde
I think it's in bulgaria, but I don't have any other information on it, who made it or why it was made
Pretty sure it's a war memorial, but I couldn't tell you which war.
Okay looks like it's a WWII memorial in Croatia - http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/podgaric-monument
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