Amelia Bellamy-Royds :progress:@AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca
@likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca Re new neighbourhoods in Edmonton & the urban canopy: it's not great.
A friend bought a house in a greenfield development in the far southwest of the city. Every house is required to plant a tree in the front yard, but most of the ones chosen are small decorative trees, like flowering crabapples. A full sized tree would completely overpower the small yards. And there's no verge / boulevard with city trees between the sidewalk & street.
The lampposts were a decorative design that arched over the streets, as if a designer was trying to recall the shape of the elm trees that arch across the street in my mid-20th-century central neighbourhood — but not at all the same in effect.
@HyL@mstdn.ca
Likely Jan Lukas@likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca
@AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca @HyL@mstdn.ca
Thank you for the #intel!
The decorative lampposts sound lovely, but yeah, not helpful for the problems of heat and #asphalt.
The thing is, that even in advance of #HeatDomes and serial #heatwaves neighbourhoods like mine are unwalkable in the summer from heat alone.
In the winter, the sloped sidewalk concrete that almost-seamlessly joins the asphalt roadway AND lack of routine snow clearance means that street parkers are often parked somewhat on the sidewalk itself.
This is particularly easy to do when the #snowpack on the road is higher than the sidewalk, which is most winters, even ones with relatively little snow.
This narrows the sidewalks to the point that even if cleared, they are not necessarily wide enough to use with #AssistiveDevices such as #rollators and #wheelchairs.
I really want #yegAccessible, year-round!
#yeg
#accessibility
#ClimateChange
#heat
#HeatIsland
#liveability
#survivability
