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This is maddening. Do you have a link to the report by any chance?

Finally taking advantage of of the "ignore" button on this forum rather than falling for argument bait.

Oof. Only 19 cranes in the middle of a massive population surge. Very frustrating.

It seems like there's no chance 10th street will ever improve given its position within the larger road network. That's why it's nice that we're starting to see "main streets" develop on smaller, non-commuter roads like 19st in Hillhurst and 33/34 ave in Marda Loop where the need to push through...

Looks pretty car sewery to me. But it was nice of the City to give pedestrians a good 2 - maybe 2.5 - feet to squeeze between the utility polls and buildings. Kensington would be much, much more pleasant if 10th street wasn't a major car route in and out of downtown.

This reminds me of the kind of development that made Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood such an attractive place in the 1970s/80s. Small scale, mixed-use infills that take advantage of existing architecture rather than knocking it all down and starting from scratch. To some extent, Calgary's...

I can't remember if it was in the Hiller article or somewhere else, but I remember reading about how Victoria Park's transformation from a working class/immigrant neighbourhood into a decaying, high-crime zone was essentially engineered by the powers that be (the City, Stampede, absentee...

Pleasantly surprised to see something proposed for 13th Ave and Centre Street. This is probably the single location in Calgary that most feels like an American inner-city. Every corner is an empty lot surrounded by fencing. Some of the fences even have barbed wire. It's an incredibly hostile...

Describing this as "mediocrity" is being extremely generous. The only way this vinyl shed could be considered "mediocre" is if it was located in some kind of mining outpost up north.

Gotta say, the Smith government is turning out to be just as extreme as everyone warned (but which Smith was able to disguise during the election campaign). Going after trans kids, essentially banning renewable energy, taxing EVs, cutting funding to health care and education, transferring funds...

Hello fellow stroller-pushing Marda Looper who moved here from Toronto! I moved to Marda Loop in 2015 and casually referred to it as "the suburbs", which offended a lot of locals (but, in 2015, it basically was the suburbs). It's amazing how much it has changed in the past decade. We used to be...

Continuing from this thread: https://calgary.skyrisecities.com/forum/threads/urban-development-and-proposals-discussion.27153/page-547#post-2054845 I'm saying homelessness is a structural problem. Where there are not enough homes to go around, the most vulnerable of society will find...

Because in poorer, less economically-developed countries, housing is cheap! In most places throughout history, poor people could simply build themselves shanties. That's exactly what happens here with encampments, but we find it completely intolerable and ask the police to go take them down...

It wasn't shot down. It was approved. However, the economy turned bad and the developer never built it. Not sure what it's current status is at the moment. My personal most-hated Chinatown building is Sun Life Plaza - now re-branded as "the Ampersand", possibly the worst building name after...

Wait... are you saying that "political correctness" is causing homelessness issues? Trust me, no one speaks more openly and frankly about homelessness and addiction that people who actually work in the sector. As long as housing is expensive, homelessness is an extremely difficult issue to...

I agree the pure numerical comparisons don't always make sense between Statistics Canada and the US Census Bureau. That's why you have to take into account the look and feel of the city as well. Wichita has a major airport, museums, universities, major employers (Koch Industries, Boeing, etc.)...

I agree that the SFH is now a luxury in Canada. I do wonder how much of Canada's housing costs have to do with the small number of large cities we have. Yes, you can still get a big house for cheap in Medicine Hat or Thunder Bay, but you're taking a huge hit to your quality of life in terms of...

Probably the lack of ensuite washers and dryers. Collective ownership of the means of laundry production!!

I would say that those commie blocks generally look better than this. Incidentally, when it comes to 1970s commie blocks, The Beltline is basically indistinguishable from parts of Toronto:

The idea of there simply being no demand in North America for dense, low-rise neighbourhoods is belied by the fact that those neighbourhoods are generally the most expensive places you can possibly live. No one's giving up their rowhouse in [Georgetown, Outremont, Cabbagetown, Greenwich Village...