Sidewalking Victoria

Sidewalking Victoria is excited to announce the opening of their new online Sidewalk Store. We have two limited edition posters now with more to come in the future...

Nice of you to start with MY hood! You know I am going to need one of those. 

Excellent. Unfortunately PayPal only so far. Should have credit cards soon. 

Credit Cards now enabled. 

Just finished a new post on the Rock Bay lands. Hoping we are going to see something there soon!

https://www.sidewalk...-downtown-north

My latest post is up on the little urban centre of Fernwood Village. 

https://www.sidewalk...alking-fernwood

My latest post is up on the little urban centre of Fernwood Village. 

https://www.sidewalk...alking-fernwood

An excellent piece. The Fernwood Heritage Walking Tour is something else to take in.

https://victoriaheri...nwoodWTBweb.pdf

The Parsonage Cafe is open

Finally got a new post done. This time on Summit Park. Apart from just talking about the park I also put in a few of my own ideas for what we could do with the reservoir. Have a read!

https://www.sidewalk.../26/summit-park

You're a mad genius. Would not the depth of the reservoir present issues re: turning into a recreational pond, etc.? It's pretty deep. Otherwise, that could be a killer park. You could put a deck over part of the reservoir and add a playground and playing field on top. Some sort of viewing platform/tower would also be great.

But let's face it, the last thing a city needs is more quality green space/recreational space.

True it would be too bad to take a unique heritage artifact and turn it into something cool that you would only see in Victoria. 

Honestly though, could they not just add gravel to it until it was a safe depth, create some interesting entry points. Personally I like the idea of a pavilion with some rowboats but there would a riot in trying to get something like that built. 

Thanks VHF!

Why did I not know these sorts of conversions were a thing? Check out the before-and-after for this reservoir in Wilmington, Delaware:
https://cityparksblo...reate-parkland/

That Cal Anderson park in Seattle is really good.

Okay, once Mike K.'s charitable foundation gets up and running, let's take some of those millions and add graduated terraces and landscaping within the walls of the reservoir, plus an irregular pathway around the edges down below in addition to an improved pathway up above. Something like this:

pic from http://www.h4wpc.org...ar-creek-basin/
 

Edited by aastra, 27 February 2018 - 07:01 PM.

New post up on Sidewalking Victoria. I have thought for many years that closing Topaz Avenue would be a great opportunity to create a huge park. While we are at it, how about create a museum to modern architecture in S.J. Willis School?

Have a look and let me know what you think!

https://www.sidewalk...llis-topaz-park

New post up on Sidewalking Victoria. I have thought for many years that closing Topaz Avenue would be a great opportunity to create a huge park. While we are at it, how about create a museum to modern architecture in S.J. Willis School?

 

Have a look and let me know what you think!

 

https://www.sidewalk...llis-topaz-park

Love it but I think SJ is supposed to be used as a transition for schools being upgraded...  If they get rid of the mold.

The Greater Victoria Placemaking Network has asked me to write for them from time to time. The first post is up if you are interested.

http://victoriaplace...ly-not-a-place/