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In fairness, the parks really had to be designed in a piecemeal way as they could not all be developed together (and I am not sure one would actually want them all looking the same.) Personally I like the variation on QQW between Ireland Park, Music Garden, H2O Park etc. The parks on QQE (Sugar Beach, Sherbourne Common, Aitken Place Park and the new one coming on the "LCBO Lands") are being developed in a more systematic way - they too are different.The problem with the parks along the waterfront is that they're designed in a piecemeal fashion in a setting that doesn't lend well to that kind of fine-grained interpretation - and it translates into lacks a coherence, much less a sense of grandeur. The QQW redo is supposed to tie it all in, but functionally and materially there is still something not quite right about the individual public spaces. Like instead of a single HtO beach, shouldn't that aspect of the waterfront public space be made into a given along the entire stretch where possible since we know it is a popular element that encourages interaction with the water?
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