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Originally Posted by officedweller
In the case of Harbour Green Park, it's just in a bad location for a park to get sunshine.
Having it directly north of the CBD isn't the optimal place for a park wanting sunlight.
But there is Stanley Park and Devonian Park nearby.
I agree that it's cold and shaded there, and that's one of the reasons that parkland is not as successful as the Concord Lands' parks, where they have southern exposure.
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From my experience Harbour Green Park is quite successful. Little kids on warm days don't care if the spray park is in the shade or not. And the park has the only large lawn close to the CBD, so it is often full of picnic blankets in the summer. The benches along the Seawall are also a great place to watch seaplanes land and take off, or to gaze at the mountains, or to watch watercraft. The park is also very peaceful at night when the tourist and office worker crowds have disappeared and the lack of nearby roads means there are no sounds aside from the waves, birds, and infrequent passerby. I regularly walk in this park and it feels uniquely like an urban oasis, especially during hot summer days, in a way the homogenous False Creek parks are not.
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I think that a lot of that has to do with Vancouver's climate. In a grey-sky city like hours, people look for all the sunshine they can get. If we had the climate of Phoenix or Dallas, this would be much different.
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