13 prescriptions for our cities

[dtkmelissa]

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).

When I was last in Goderich, they not only had public accessible washrooms (right off the square), they had signage elsewhere telling people about the existence of them. Lezlie Lowe has a great book on this issue called 'No Place To Go'.