Estela Nadege plays bump with Adam Schwartz in the new public park outside the Christian Life Assembly church in Calgary's southwest. In bump, if the second player in line sinks the ball before the first player, the first player is eliminated.
Community groups are using microgrants to start mini-park projects, add games and park chairs or picnic tables to inner-city neighbourhoods.Estela Nadege plays bump with Adam Schwartz in the new public park outside the Christian Life Assembly church in Calgary's southwest. In bump, if the second player in line sinks the ball before the first player, the first player is eliminated.
It was just a parking lot last year. Now, it's a place where residents can grab sushi or won ton soup at the nearby restaurants, and then meet neighbours and sit on patio furniture as others come out to shoot hoops. City council has been trying to encourage more inner-city density. In Killarney, Glengarry and Richmond, the neighbourhoods around Christian Life Assembly, many bungalows are being torn down and replaced with duplexes or fourplexes. Several large infill sites are slated for highrise towers.
A small playground and sandbox are part of the park installation in the parking lot by the Christian Life Assembly church off Richmond Road. "In the 20th century, they put a lot of focus on travel efficiency. Now we're starting to realize in planning that there's other factors in the city that we want to focus on. Not just travel efficiency, but spaces for people to gather, interact with each other. I think those spaces are important to build community."
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