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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Back and front yards are useless and just isolate families into their own lots. I agree with David Suzuki. Calgary's urban sprawl is disgraceful. Look at Europe. Build apartments with commercial space on the street level and have large parks and squares for communual use. You defeat disgusting urban sprawl and you concentrate people so we all meet more people and interact more in daily life.
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Originally Posted by pepper24
He's dead-on. City council has had backwards thinking about urban sprawl for decades. We have such a vibrant downtown core during the day due to being the energy capital of Canada that you think they'd try to replicate that in the evenings with entertainment, condos etc. We're only now starting to bump that trend.
I'll take New York/Chicago over LA/Houston any day.
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I agree with both of you 100%. Calgary has a vibrant downtown core until 5/6pm when everyone goes to the suburbs. It's partially because few people live downtown but the sprawl encourage mini-metro centre like Deerfoot Meadows, Market Mall, Chinook and Shawnessey so there is no reason to have a vibrant night or cultural vibe. Kids don't even play on the streets like they used to when I was a wee lad.
That's why I love cities like Vancouver, TO and Montreal so much. You can walk around almost any reasonable time of day, any day off the week and with any weather, and there's a vibe. People are out shopping, go to packed streets with bars, cafes and restaurants and there is lots to do. Calgary severely lacks that and I think its not caused by but rather encouraged by the sprawl.
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