Quote:
Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Well it's a rather pressing issue. We have 1 million people now, and we're covering land use the size of New York city - and still growing.
|
While I agree with your overall message, I hate when people use this comparison. It's totally irrelevant and in real-terms, inaccurate. New York city itself is pretty tiny (It's the 22nd largest city in the US by area....behind places like Anchorage, Honolulu, Nashville, Indianapolis etc.) so the city proper is a bad gauge for sprawl.
In "real" terms though, the metro area stretches through 3 states (4 if you include Pennsylvania, which is not out of the question), and covers an area that basically goes for at least a hundred miles in each direction (remember there are about 22 million people in the metro area!). There's no way that Calgary is even frickin' close....our "Tuscany" is in Jersey. Here's a map of NY and how it compares to Calgary. Calgary basically covers the red parts of that map.......and as you can see, comes nowhere close to matching the realistic catchment area of New York.
http://content.calgary.ca/CCA/City+H...w+York+Map.htm