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Originally Posted by mykalberta
Not to defend the article, but just to reply to you.
On many occasions people have commented publically and on this forum how Calgary takes up more land than NYC. Ive never been to NYC before but from the pictures it doesnt seem to be alot of single family homes there.
I think if you ask them off the record they would like to see nothing but high density homes from crowchild to glenmore to john laurie to deerfoot. Of course they would never say that on the record.
I would like to know what kind of city that exists today they would want to copy. To look at NYC financials it doesnt appear that they are in any better financial position than Calgary. So to say that Calgary is unsustainable because of sprawling suburbia is to imply that there is a city out there that is sustainable, and if NYC isnt one then I wonder what city out there they are comparing Calgary against.
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I don't think they literally want to turn Calgary into NYC. It's just used as an extreme example to illustrate Calgary's relatively low density (1/10 of NYC). Imagine the difference of just doubling Calgary's density