This issue was raised during the two public events, and a number of examples were shown of cities – rainy cities like Vancouver – that have successful public spaces that function year-round. In fairness to the survey, it did look like there was at least one image of a covered space (not umbrellas, but some sort of covering). But yes, this could have been called-out with more clarity.

The Co-design exercise (from which the images were derived) began with an exercise that asked participants to envision how the space was being used over a 24 hour period. An equally valid query could involve asking people how they would imagine the space being used over the 12 months of the year.