We need to build more parks and open spaces. The City's capital budget should be used to acquire and create parkland in neighbourhoods that lag behind. We also have many pieces of relatively bare parkland that can be transformed into more active parkland. In all communities, we need a full range and variety of park and open space experiences within easy walking and cycling distance. We need to create more art in public places.
Public art has the ability to transform the ordinary into the exceptional.
American cities, such as Chicago, invest in public art to beautify their city and as a strategic investment to attract tourists. Background studies in Toronto are now underway to create a policy for public art in major private developments. We need to create buildings that work together and fit in. We have to look not just at individual buildings, but at the way buildings come together as a whole. We have to conserve historic sites and architectural treasures.