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Originally Posted by SebC
Better depends on your goal. If one wants to see the impact of municipal policies on density, it makes more sense to look at municipalities. Throwing in the suburbs just muddies the waters. I thought Vancouver's was notable because the city proper already has very high density, yet it has some of the least affordable housing and most restrictive zoning.
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I think the lack of empty space is a factor. While Calgary isn't a very dense place, we have also annexed a bunch of land that isn't developed at all - in fact much of it has a growth management overlap specifically forbidding development. Having thousands of acres where density is effectively 0 skews the calculation.