02-05-2010, 12:03 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Cap Hell
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Weren't Bowness, Midnapore and Beddington separate municipalities at one point?
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02-05-2010, 12:06 PM
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^Forest Lawn too. Calgary also recently swallowed up the town of Shepard.
Going back further, Crescent Heights was its own town.
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02-05-2010, 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by frinkprof
Calgary's uni-city CMA is also different than many North American examples where there are large areas of farmland between Calgary and its neighbouring towns and cities. Chestermere is the smallest gap. Most large North American metro areas are one large contigeous built area composed of multiple municipalities.
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Calgary was like that, then as it grew into the smaller municipalities, Bowness, Montgomery and Midnapore, for example, they were annexed. I suspect the same will eventually happen to Airdrie, Cochrane and others
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02-05-2010, 12:08 PM
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^Yeah. That's basically the uni-city model in a nutshell.
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02-05-2010, 12:10 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Memento Mori
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I think the Borg... er, City of Calgary now owns all the land right to Cochrane... And have been pressuring Cochrane City Hall to assimilate.
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02-05-2010, 12:10 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: NYYC
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Originally Posted by Tyler
Ottawa definitely does not have a big city feel to it.
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Well, I'm not sure Calgary does either. In the grand scheme of things, it's still fairly small/mid-sized city.
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02-05-2010, 12:13 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Auckland, NZ
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Calgary definitely does NOT have a big-city feel to it.
And the population is exepcted to go to 1.5 million by 2017? The only sustainable, logical solution to this is more residential towers / developments downtown and around the core. It's the path that most big cities take, anyways.
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02-05-2010, 12:15 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: NYYC
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No way man, it's build out to Montana or bust!
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02-05-2010, 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Table 5
No way man, it's build out to Montana or bust!
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I figured you might have wanted to see more towers like The Montana.
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02-05-2010, 12:31 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Vancouver
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I think it would be better if we were in the #10 kind of range.
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02-05-2010, 12:36 PM
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I live in a city much smaller than Calgary where I'm an elected official. I think Calgary definitely has a big-city feel. It's way too big for me. Million-plus people. You can have it. I like Calgary but hate the size and the congestion.
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02-05-2010, 12:36 PM
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Took an arrow to the knee
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Toronto
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Wow, didn't realize the Toronto metro here dwarfed Calgary that much.
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02-05-2010, 01:14 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Van City - Main St.
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I'd like to see the number for municipalities, think Calgary would rank even higher on that.
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02-05-2010, 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay
Weren't Bowness, Midnapore and Beddington separate municipalities at one point?
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My father in Law (RIP) was an officer on the Bowness Police force before they joined Calgary.
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02-05-2010, 01:40 PM
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We here in Kelowna have St. John's NF in the crosshairs. 3 or 4 more years and they're going down. To 22nd in the list.
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02-05-2010, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
Wow, didn't realize the Toronto metro here dwarfed Calgary that much.
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The GTA adds a Calgary in population every decade now. Averaging almost 100,000 people a year. If you think Calgary sprawl is bad, you haven't been to the 905 around Toronto. Leap frog development, disfunctional regional transit and planning, the worst/ugliest development imaginable. Calgary's lucky to be a unicity - but it's time to annex some of these smaller communities around the city to be able to effectively plan regionally.
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02-05-2010, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
I'd like to see the number for municipalities, think Calgary would rank even higher on that.
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Calgary is third for municipalities behind Toronto (~2.5 million) and Montreal (~1.8 million). If Calgary maintains its unicity model and annexes around the city (which it should IMO), I think in probably 30-40 years Calgary will be largest municipality in population. Toronto's and Montreal's borders are fixed, with a number of surrounding individual municipalities that will likely never be amalgomated.
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02-05-2010, 01:42 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Memento Mori
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bunk
The GTA adds a Calgary in population every decade now. Averaging almost 100,000 people a year. If you think Calgary sprawl is bad, you haven't been to the 905 around Toronto. Leap frog development, disfunctional regional transit and planning, the worst/ugliest development imaginable. Calgary's lucky to be a unicity - but it's time to annex some of these smaller communities around the city...
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I think it's cute when people here think Calgary's a sprawl.
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02-05-2010, 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Shazam
I think it's cute when people here think Calgary's a sprawl.
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Well, to be fair, for the populaton, Calgary does sprawl on a relatively large land area. It needs to be brought under control as Calgary moves from 1-2 million people or it's going to become completely unmanageable (like the GTA is now). Plus, if we're going to grow into a big city, we might as well grow into a GREAT big city. This means reurbanizing, intensifying, investing in Transit and so on.
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