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Originally Posted by Burninator
I've read that Calgary is the same size in area of New York city, but with only 1/10 the population. Our sprawl is really quite large.
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its not even a fair comparison...calgary is a unicity with no constraints on how big it can grow...
New York city is a bunch of islands surronded by political boundairies etc..they have constraints..The reality is the work force in New York lives beyond those boundaries..in New Jersey and Connecticut...take away the political boundaries and different city names...and you have one large city from Boston to Washington DC...
Same for Vancouver...people commute from all over the lower mainland to work in Vancouver...White Rock, Abbortsfords, West Vancouver, New West, Surrey ect...Just because you divided up the urban area into smaller cities doesnt mean there is no urban sprawl...
Calgary gets a unfair rap when it comes to urban sprawl.