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13 prescriptions for our cities

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11-15-2020, 04:27 PM

(11-15-2020, 04:19 PM)plam Wrote:
(11-15-2020, 04:01 PM)tomh009 Wrote: * More free, municipally-maintained public toilets

NZ is extremely good with providing public toilets and this is really useful even as a person with no special needs. I can be confident that when I go somewhere in public there will be a city-maintained toilet accessible not too far away. Downtown Wellington is a bit less good (there are some but not as many) and during lockdown they closed many of them, but overall, far better than Canada.

From what I saw of Beijing, also very good with public toilets.

Montreal had city-built public toilets during the Depression but they went away unfortunately.

Some European cities are very good for that as well -- and Tokyo has many in their numerous parks (but not much in super-dense urban areas like Ginza).

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