IF you want to see how Calgary is beginning to retrofit itself to a more sustainable future, look at the Brentwood Station Area Plan - currently in circulation. Basically all the text in it is mine (I'm one of the planners on the job)
Taking the existing low scale suburban mall and parking lots:
Current lack of real streets or blocks:
New network of streets and blocks:
Introducing parks and open spaces
Land Use precincts and development parcels:
Built form
The massing of buildings
Read the full draft plan here:
http://www.calgary.ca/DocGallery/BU/...ntwood_sap.pdf
We also did Banff Trail and Lions Park.
http://www.calgary.ca/portal/server....nning+Area.htm