This is one in an infinite series of how the before can’t the same as the after. Don’t fear the future: it can be better if we want it.
There is so much to talk about on this subject that I couldn’t fit in. You should get @lezlielowe’s “No Place to Go: how public toilets fail our private needs” to read more. https://chbooks.com/Books/N/No-Place-To-Go">https://chbooks.com/Books/N/N...
The history of the decline of public toilets in Toronto is long & interesting. Worries about “winies” & even some https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👯" title="People with bunny ears" aria-label="Emoji: People with bunny ears">homosexualhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏾" title=" (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: (light skin tone)"> panic. A punishing TO tone towards public space & public life that echoes today, sadly. Here’s @chrisbateman on that history. http://spacing.ca/toronto/2014/07/09/happened-public-washrooms-toronto/">https://spacing.ca/toronto/2...
Notes: universal frustration (though unequal experience) with lack of public toilets. Dare I say you could run a post-Covid mayoral campaign on "Toilets For All"?
As mentioned in column, the ideal public washrooms: Ontario Place. Heated. Stadium-scaled. Clean. – at Ontario Place
My years of taking public urinal photographs finally pay off.
Sorry, to new followers who& #39;ve not seen them - the pics are just of urinal architecture / architectural context. Nothing weird!
She predicts the reopening is going to be a failure. Why? "Not because people don’t know how to stay two metres apart from one another, but because municipal governments are about to feel the acute impact of not having enough on-street public toilets to keep cities flowing."
"Successive municipal governments in many cities have, as a matter of policy, passed the infrastructure buck to pvt businesses. So Canadian urbanites have come to expect bathrooms geared toward helping spenders spend, rather than bathrooms designed to help city users use cities."
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