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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
You have the local 'New Urbanists' to blame. Their constant 'sprawl' talk would make you believe that Calgary was at the extreme end relative to North America. While they certainly have a point about car dependancy and better city planning, the Calgary area is not as bad as it's made out to be for sprawl. It takes a visit to places where real sprawl exists (Dalls-Fort worth-Arlington Metroplex among others), to actually realize that point.
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Or Saskatoon. According to that data, it has a larger land area than Calgary, but about 1/5th of the population.
Also interesting to note that Canada's three largest cities, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver have about quadruple the population density of most other Canadian cities.