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Originally Posted by New Era
Yeah, that's only partially true. Based on urban population figures Calgary comes in top 10, just a head of San Jose and just about the size of Dallas. Where American cities get the edge is metro population based on urban sprawl. Unfortunately that also works against the big cities. For example, even though I'm a hockey junkie I get to maybe one or two games a year,, because I live 1 1/2 hours from the arena. In Calgary I could easily live in the burbs and attend games. Can't do that in the metro areas.
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Only reason Calgary is 9th there is that it's rare (or non existant?) for US cities to use the Unicity model like Calgary. They don't amalgamate suburbs like Calgary does.
Imagine how tiny Calgary would be if Forest Lawn, Midnapore, Bowness and all those other towns grew on their own instead of merging into Calgary and allowing Calgary to build new subdivisions around them.
Anyways, all I was trying to get at is that were pretty spoiled for the big city feel we get here compared to other cities of our size. CalgaryNext and Ken King still failed.