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Springbank to YCC is about 25km, and shows a 25 to 30% difference in rainfall. Illustrates the highly localized rain conditions here.

I also wonder how localized the drought classifications are - so much of Southern Alberta's rain is thunderstorm based, so inevitably leads to high local variations on rainfall totals. For example, Calgary's up to 160mm+ of rain for the month, while Lethbridge is only at 60mm for the month.

Thanks @ByeByeBaby - I was desperately hoping someone with better GIS skills than me would pick up the torch and advance this conversation :)

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 remarkably low density compared to many other cities on average, unless they are redeveloping. Don’t have the data in front of me, but recall much of Calgary...

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, it’s more work than time I had - but I don’t know if it would reveal anything more interesting. There’s no magical way to slice things to pretend the cities are...

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 really high density defined by my threshold (10,000people /sqkm). It really swings the numbers if a census tract is added or not, simply because there’s only a...

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 In summary, it's not just being bigger - it's way more people (and a way larger proportion of people) living in those vibrant higher density areas. I updated...

Might still fit. My guess would be the inner SW has seen the highest uptake in redevelopment of the building new building stock to keep things affordable - the boom in low-height infills concentrates there. Townhomes, walkups, condos all were produced at a great volume. In some areas the total...

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 have good data to calculate but shouldn't be too hard with the right datasets: # and proportion of people living in census tracts with a density greater than...

Lots of variables are correlated, but there's a few stories we can probably tease out. Income and housing affordability seems to be a big thing in the long-run trends of toddler density. In particular, which places have maintained some relative affordability, and which have not over the past...

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 vaguely "urban designy" for me, and doesn't get at what is the whole point of a "gateway" is. The urban design approach is all about using "gateway features" to...

The premise of signs like this is kind of flawed from the beginning. It stems from a clumsy interpretations of an idea everyone always says in public engagement that sounds something like "Marda Loop is unique and unique places need clear boundaries. People should know they are there when they...

Whether that concept ever happens or not, it’s good to see developers starting to treat pedestrian-only courtyards and corridors between buildings in a multi-phase development as real positive assets and amenities. Seems like a generation of buildings could never figure out what to do with...

If we didn't require public recreation centres to be co-located with acres of parking lots, all configured in some of the least efficient site layouts possible, located in some of the least walkable locations possible, we'd find that our public facilities could easily fit in more urban areas...

Great summer for trees (excluding the hail damage in parts of the city) after some tough ones of super dry and hot. These deeper, soaking rains are really good. Another 30 to 50mm tomorrow too!

Political machinations and opposition from some loud voices in the community aside, I think it was a hard project to oppose, both practically and from a policy perspective. It's a dense, pedestrian-oriented, grocery store with retail, on a Main Street in an identified priority area for growth...

Actually, I agree with this is as the ultimate project - save billions by avoiding tunnels and makes transit more reliable: just create another 7th Avenue. It would improve the capacity of 6th Ave by 3 to 5 times easily.

Surprised there was so little fanfare after all the drama.

Is below what they were imagining? I am struggling to understand exactly what they were thinking back in the 1980s, I don't think the Blue Line existed at the time they planned this? I would imagine the ship sailed on the Blue line component with the Central Library building over the Red Line...

Yes - buses. I actually think the lowest hanging fruit and one of the better value projects for Calgary Transit isn't the LRT downtown, but it's figuring out how to get those hundreds of buses moving on 6th, 5th and 4th Avenues downtown. Enormous delays and inconsistency have been allowed to...