Aardappel's latest activity

Housing starts for first half of 2026 (Jan-Jun). Calgary was the leader instead of the usual 3rd place. Not a total shock as Toronto and...

I'm currently in the West End of Vancouver staying with friends and there's ugly buildings everywhere - but the street scape/public...

This is one of these streets where the sized to fit every possible need (except street trees), including street parking. Then they put...

I hope so. We'll know it has fully become Robson St when we have 10 ramen shops to choose from on the same street and a Muji store.

Downtown and rail side of the Beltline have lots of new builds going on right now. There probably 1/2 dozen new builds going right now...

To be fair, they've been at a good pace with their Hannover conversion. I am excited to see how much the thousands of new housing units...

What's old is new again. Pre-"Red Mile" you had a bunch of retail, including clothing shops, that was swept away in favour of bars and...

Oh frick! Another 10-year conversion incoming...

Marda Loop could use more “normal” retail. Cool wine bars are awesome and we should always have more of them, but we also need a bit...

I don’t love the design, but I happy to see it get built. I’d rather have an empty lot filled with a mediocre building than have it empty.

There's probably also a lack of desirable homes to downsize too. The popular older person home is the medium size bungalow that has...

It is going to be really interesting and exciting to see how these density numbers increase come the next census. There's been a lot of...

Here's my take on densities, a similar but slightly different analysis. I calculated densities with three changes; I used buffered...

For the smaller cities, a lot of it is a threshold problem and how census tracts are drawn - they just don’t have a lot of areas at...

Here's a post I did about this a few years ago, summarizes my attempt to rationalize population, density and the "vibe" of a city. link...