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 **Seasonality in Cities** **Seasonality in Cities**
  
-[[https://www.amsterdamsights.com/events/skating.html|In Amsterdam and other Eurpoean cities, people use the frozen canals as ice skating highways.]] Urban Cross Country Skiing is comparatively rare, but [[https://acrossthesnowline.com/2023/12/31/the-dream-urban-xc-skiing-in-north-america/|some cities already do it]]. And there's certainly [[https://www.reddit.com/r/xcountryskiing/comments/p9fnes/xc_ski_destinations_close_or_in_urban_settings/|some demand]] [[https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/the-strange-allure-of-urban-cross-country-skiing/|for it]]. In my current city, today, I often see cross country skiers getting up early to use the clear, smooth snow on the bike path before the plow trucks come through. Perhaps as a solarpunk city reclaims streets into parks and other human spaces, more of them could be used as ski trails in the winter. Perhaps even old highway overpasses/aqueducts could be left unplowed for skiing. +[[https://www.amsterdamsights.com/events/skating.html|In Amsterdam and other Eurpoean cities, people use the frozen canals as ice skating highways.]] Urban Cross Country Skiing is comparatively rare, but [[https://acrossthesnowline.com/2023/12/31/the-dream-urban-xc-skiing-in-north-america/|some cities already do it]]. And there's certainly [[https://www.reddit.com/r/xcountryskiing/comments/p9fnes/xc_ski_destinations_close_or_in_urban_settings/|some demand]] [[https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/the-strange-allure-of-urban-cross-country-skiing/|for it]]. In my current city, today, I often see cross country skiers getting up early to use the clear, smooth snow on the bike path before the plow trucks come through. Perhaps as a solarpunk city reclaims streets into parks and other human spaces, more of them could be used as ski trails in the winter. Perhaps [[https://urbandesignlab.in/seoullo-7017-transformed-from-abandoned-overpass-into-thriving-green-walkway/|even old highway overpasses/aqueducts]] could be left unplowed for skiing.