TORONTO When lockdowns close off public sports spaces such as basketball courts and soccer fields, they disproportionately affect lower-income and racialized families in dense cities, land-use experts say. Earlier this month, public health experts decried Ontarioâs lockdown moves targeting outdoor spaces, saying theyâre some of the least likely places to contract COVID-19. And public spaces and land-use experts say itâs hard not to see disproportionate effects of these measures playing out along socioeconomic and racial lines. âI think that we need to be very democratic making the laws⦠it s very clear that we are targeting citizens in different ways,â said Gil Penalosa, founder of 8 80 Cities, a non-profit organization striving to enhance mobility and equity for public spaces.