Back-ish on topic:
Good powerpoint presentation on suburban sprawl and the components of new urbanism, read to the end where it gets interesting:
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j...42965579,d.cGE
There's really no reason Calgary couldn't build up along smart growth principles as outlined in the latter half of that presentation. I also would be interested to see if anyone here had any fundamental problems with that vision.
If you care about the economic arguments of smart growth and more definitions of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...v=NMvwHDFVpCE#!