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Originally Posted by Jedi Ninja
According to recent census data, the only communities with densities significantly higher than new suburbs are as follows: Downtown, West End, Connaught, Victoria Park, Erlton, Bankview. If you live in these communities, enjoy your bridge and have a free latte on me. Everyone else: STFU, you live in sprawl too.
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Lower Mount Royal (my community
) is actually the most dense. Probably would be Beltline, but the Stampede significanltly dilutes their density number because there's almost nothing on it and it's huge. Also map is only residential population and there is actually a lot of office and commercial in Beltline too. But density in and of itself does not make a complete community. Mix of housing types and tenure, walkability, presensence of commercial streets, employment opportunities, open spaces are all important factors. In this sense, although Hillhurst Sunnyside are of lower density (although still higher than average) than some other communities, they are highly complete communities.
here's the density ranges of all communities based on the 2011 census. Thanks to Boris2k7 at skyscraperpage.com
First, for all communities (regardless of community type):
The most dense communities (by UPA) don't change between the two maps as they are all built-out communities:
1. 32.4 UPA - Lower Mount Royal
2. 24.5 UPA - Mission
3. 23.8 UPA - Chinatown
4. 20.7 UPA - Bankview
5. 19.2 UPA - Beltline