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Old Posted Apr 23, 2015, 5:36 AM
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Yeah, rational, well informed posts. The rest I won't dignify with a response.
When it comes to dignity, for a large contingent of Calgary forumers that ship sailed a long time ago. How about just trying to engage in discussions and arguments without hyperventilating? You literally come across like Chinese "netizens" defending the motherland.

Here's another example of how to do it without sounding like a baby: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...8&postcount=83.
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Old Posted Apr 23, 2015, 5:42 AM
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It's a highway. You can plainly see that. No traffic lights. Deer crossing signs. It's a highway.

Like I said it's a nice amenity, but access isn't very good.
They aren't highways, they are city streets, and there are definitely lights on them, though they are spaced far apart. The scale of the park is what determined the scale of the roadways around it as the park is a major barrier to traffic flow, so they required the roads around it to carry higher capacity.

Access is limited to a few points as it should be, this is the suburbs afterall (very vehicle oriented development). We don't need people walking across a busy street to gain access to a park when they can go to one of the many entry points. Also, as Chad alluded to, there is a ton of wildlife in the park, and it would be counter productive to not try and separate them from the roadways surrounding the park (for both motorists and the animals themselves). For a truly "urban" park, we have many in and around the inner city that are much more open and accessible (Prince's Island, St Patrick's Island, Central Memorial, Riverwalk...).

Now can we just see what Canadian cities have to offer without nitpicking everything? please!
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It's a highway. You can plainly see that. No traffic lights. Deer crossing signs. It's a highway.

Like I said it's a nice amenity, but access isn't very good.
Not that I want to join in on the rest of the debate, but this point can only be correct if you consider that in Alberta, legally speaking, every road regularly accessible to the public is a "highway." There are traffic lights on all the roads surrounding Nose Hill. Deer crossing signs abound through the city on many types of roadways. You can't even (legally) approach highway speeds on most of the surrounding roads.

Access is mostly fine. There are about a half dozen parking lots that ring the park, and there a few dozen bus routes (Nose Hill is practically in the middle of the northwest and covers around 10% of that quadrant). Probably the biggest strike against the park in terms of access is that there's nowhere for you to lock up a bike (though I'm not sure why you'd do that if you took your bike all the way to Nose Hill in the first place).

The park fits within the generic definition of "urban," meaning "not rural."
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Wierd that nobo0dy from Edmonton has chimed in. They have the largest urban park in Canada by a huge margin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._parks_by_size
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Wierd that nobo0dy from Edmonton has chimed in. They have the largest urban park in Canada by a huge margin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._parks_by_size
This is probably Edmonton's best asset IMO, absolutely fantastic the way they have mostly avoided developing their river valley. Though I think considering it a single park may be false...
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My favorite urban parks in Canada (so far) outside of Calgary and Vancouver are...


Sifton Bog - London, Ontario


Along the Sifton Bog Boardwalk by ablankface, on Flickr

Sifton Bog Exploration - 2 by ablankface, on Flickr

http://stuartclark.ca/2009/03/30/sifton-fisheye/



Humberwood Park/Humber Arboretum - Toronto, Ontario


http://www.panoramio.com/photo/11330434

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/110794635

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/110867253



Knox Mountain/Paul's Tomb - Kelowna, British Columbia


http://stfankaren.blogspot.ca/2011/0...n-kelowna.html

http://www.ridingstyle.de/kelowna-kn...in/?show=slide

http://wikimapia.org/21730311/Paul-s-Tomb-Beach





as you can see, all of my favorite parks are pretty wild and unspoiled. To be fair though, I have never been to Rouge Park, but I'm sure I would absolutely love it.



Edit: Oh, it appears that by my own definition, Knox Mountain may not be a truly "urban" (surrounded by urban area) park. Though I'm sure others on here may find it interesting, so I'll leave it.
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Wierd that nobo0dy from Edmonton has chimed in. They have the largest urban park in Canada by a huge margin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._parks_by_size
Haha, well I did just post two pics on the bottom of the last page less than an hour ago. There's an aerial shot of our river valley posted on the first page as well.
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Edmonton's River Pathway, if it were a single park (it's a couple dozen), would probably be the largest urban park in the world. It's probably already the largest continuous area of green space through a major city in the world.
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My favorite urban parks in Canada (so far) outside of Calgary and Vancouver are...


Sifton Bog - London, Ontario


I love bogs. They're always teeming with all kinds of life, and, at the same time, just a little creepy. As a kid, I could spend hours explore them. I probably still could today.
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Yeah, that park looks amazing. I'll have to visit it the next time I'm in London.
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Edmonton's River Pathway, if it were a single park (it's a couple dozen), would probably be the largest urban park in the world. It's probably already the largest continuous area of green space through a major city in the world.
According to the list logan posted, it would be 12th in the world.

That Bog does look sweet, probably mosquito central in the summer though lol.
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McBurney Park in Kingston, also unofficially called Skeleton Park by locals. (The surrounding neighbourhood is named for the park, and most locals use the term 'McBurney Park' to refer to the neighbourhood, 'Skeleton Park' to refer to the park itself).




(Credit for 3 above: McBurney Park Neighbourhood Association)

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McBurney Park was established in the 1890s.. on top of a former cemetery. About 10,000 bodies were buried here from about 1810 to about 1860. This part of Kingston was home to most of Kingston's lower-class industrial workforce and it had no parks, so in the late 19th century, a big demand from Kingston's labour activists was the establishment of a park for the neighbourhood. The city listened and converted the cemetery to a park. This is where it gets its nickname, Skeleton Park.

The vegetation here is very lush, there's many trees and flowers that grow wonderfully and the grass is very green.... because the soil is very well fertilized by the decomposing human remains.
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William Hawrelak Park, bottom right, smack dab in the middle of our city.


(http://medias.photodeck.com/d8f25904...19_xgaplus.jpg)
I know I take flak everytime I say this, but I would absolutely love to see Victoria Park Golf Course (the one on the opposite side of the river) closed and turned into a real urban park. I imagine it being Edmonton's version of Central Park.
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The London one is amazing. And I agree about Edmonton. Golf will fall more out of favour eventually.
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Parks of Saskatoon's Meewasin Valley

Kiwanis Park


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River Landing


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Rotary Park


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Cosmopolitan Park


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Kinsmen Park


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Meewasin Park


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Toon town lookin good!
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Here's where the two Calgary parks mentioned are located:

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For me, Stanley Park takes the cake. If I may be so bold, second prize for "great urban parks" goes to Montreal's Mont Royal Park:

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It is a big-assed phreaking park:

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The view from the Belvedere is tops:

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Is the definition of an urban park "in the city", "close to the city" or has a "view of the city"?

What I'm asking is, would Ottawa's Gatineau Park and Greenbelt count?
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Let's try to use a liberal definition and not be too worried about whether or not something qualifies (within reason...I don't want to see Calgarians putting up pictures of Banff )

http://barberha.com/wp-content/uploa...hives_AMD2.jpg

This tiny little park right next to my apartment is a good place to go sit down, relax, play chess or throw a football around. It's on the grounds of the Edmonton Public Schools Archives and Museum, an old school building from the early 1900s. On the grounds is also (what I assume is a replica) the first schoolhouse in Edmonton, from the 1880s.



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