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

What you’ll find is the massive drop-off is often still far denser than Calgary’s drop off. Calgarys early suburbs (1960s - 1980s) are...

"McLean says he’d like the Eighth Avenue bike lane taken out, and wants to see others – including the thoroughfare on 12 Avenue –...

It’s all CMA populations so it’s comparable and includes all suburbs within the CMA. I didn’t bother isolating for the city proper...

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...

Minister of Transportation logic: The issue with the Deerfoot is the bike lanes. Once that issue is sorted the Province will properly...

Might still fit. My guess would be the inner SW has seen the highest uptake in redevelopment of the building new building stock to...

A "Tuesday surprise"...new DP submitted, this one for a 35-ish storey 390-foot tower called "The Morrison" at 1400 ST SW. Developer is...

I have often thought about how to quantify such a qualitative thing, here's two ideas that might work to put some numbers to it. I don't...

Vancouver feels like a much bigger city at ground level though, definitely closer to Toronto and Montreal than Calgary or Edmonton.

Lots of variables are correlated, but there's a few stories we can probably tease out. Income and housing affordability seems to be a...

Yeah totally - I just don't buy it when plans call out things like "gateway features" being worth highlighting. It's mostly a bit too...

To be fair, they did return the “lollipop” signs at 33 Ave & 19 St and 34 Ave & 20 St: And the design does call for “Marda Loop...

She wants the national parks to not exist any more, so not surprising that taking an adversarial attitude at every step happened and...