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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman

And it also doesnt mean much..Vancouver density is much greater than Calgary...they still suffer from the same issues that are pinned on urban sprawl...since most of the working class cant afford to live in the city, they all come in from the burbs..Abby, Poco, Pitt Meadows, Surrey ect...Same with NYC...Toronto...etc..

Is that so?

Directly from StatsCan:

---------------------DENSITY----------LAND AREA (SQ.KM)---------RATIO
Calgary (City): -----1,360.2/km² --------------726.5 ---------------1.87
Vancouver(City): ---5,039.0/km² -------------114.71 ---------------44.0

Calgary's urban sprawl is assumedly MUCH, MUCH bigger. Each Calgarian has approximately 24x as much space as a Vancouverite does, given City boundaries and population.

Let's do a Metropolitan Area calculation as well for comparison's sake:

---------------------DENSITY----------LAND AREA (SQ.KM)---------RATIO
Calgary (Metro): -----211.3/km² ------------5107.43 ---------------0.041
Vancouver (Metro): --735.6/km² ------------2877.36 ---------------0.256

Calgary's urban sprawl is, again, assumedly MUCH, MUCH bigger. Each Calgarian has approximately 6x as much space as a Vancouverite does, given each City's Metro Area boundaries and population.

Problems associated with urban sprawl? Perhaps, but not really what I was trying to discuss.

Extent of urban sprawl? Calgary wins this HANDS DOWN.